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1. August 2, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: campaign finance

   Here's how to follow the money

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • ProPublica: Ease into the murky, jargon-heavy world of campaign finance with the soul-funk sounds of ProPublica’s “Oh, Super PACS! A Music Video” explainer; take a...

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2. August 30, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: data journalism

   Learn how the experts make numbers look pretty

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • The Guardian's Datablog: Publishes interactives and visualizations pegged to the news, as well as the raw data that goes into them. • Texas Tribune: Extensive...

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3. August 16, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: design

   All the pretty things

   By Molly Mirhashem

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • FastCoDesign: A comprehensive design blog from Fast Company magazine, FastCoDesign has a great “Infographic of the Day,” which never fails to be informative and eye-catching....

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4. August 23, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: entertainment industry

   Get the inside scoop on all the Botoxed faces

   By Sara Morrison

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Deadline.com: Founder and editor in chief Nikki Finke may use the non-word "toldja!" too often (once is too often), and the site's 2008 Writers Guild...

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5. August 22, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: Euro crisis

   Understand all the overseas finance stuff that nobody gets

   By Ryan Chittum

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Martin Wolf: The Financial Times's incisive columnist is, along with Paul Krugman, the best writer on the root causes of the crisis and how it...

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6. August 31, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: food politics and policy

   If you believe you are what you eat, you'll want to read these

   By Brent Cunningham

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Barry Estabrook’s Politics of the Plate blog: Smart, thoughtful, and often witty takes on a range of food matters, but with an emphasis on labor...

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7. August 24, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: fossil fuels

   Drill, baby, drill

   By Curtis Brainard

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • ProPublica’s fracking page: The best ongoing coverage of the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, incorporating a full range of politics and policy, business and industry,...

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8. August 8, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: healthcare politics and policy

   Channeling the inner wonk

   By Trudy Lieberman

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Kaiser Health News is the most comprehensive source on health policy and politics, with deep reporting on everything from hospital consolidation and patient safety to...

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9. August 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   Required skimming: higher education

   As back-to-school time approaches, here's how to stay educated about education

   By Peter Sterne

   This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Inside Higher Ed: In addition to serving as a solid source of news and opinion on all facets of higher education, Inside Higher Ed surveys...

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10. August 14, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: how campaigns work

    Learn how the wonks view the horse race

    By Greg Marx

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Jonathan Bernstein (@jbplainblog): At his own site and in contributions to The Washington Post’s Plum Line and Post Partisan blogs, this political scientist unpacks what...

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11. August 9, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: hyperlocal

    Where to learn about game plans for covering local news in an ever-more-digital world

    By Kira Goldenberg

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • StreetFight is a site dedicated to coverage of online hyperlocal projects. • Including CJR’s Guide to Online News Startups is self promotion, yes, but we...

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12. August 29, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: journalism business models

    All the things I could do/If I had a little money

    By Michael Meyer

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Nieman Journalism Lab: Focused exclusively on the “future of news” beat, the lab is a one stop shop for both reported stories and the latest...

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13. August 27, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: journalism’s funny

    Laughing so we don't cry, or drink

    By Kira Goldenberg

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • News Cat Gifs: This newish Tumblr, following in the grand tradition of #editorrealtalk (now hosted on CJR!) shows kitties demonstrating how we journos feel throughout...

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14. August 6, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: Libor

    Understand and keep up to speed with England's bank rate rigging scandal

    By Ryan Chittum

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Ian Fraser: The British journalist is a one-man clearinghouse for news and analysis on Libor and other banking scandals. • The Financial Times's Alphaville: This...

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15. August 3, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: literary criticism

    Keep abreast of what the bookish thinkers are thinking

    By Justin Peters

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Arts and Letters Daily: One of the oldest—and still one of the best—hand-curated aggregators of smart cultural essays and book reviews. • Publishers Weekly: Unmatched...

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16. August 21, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: media news aggregators not named Romenesko

    (Only because everyone knows about him already)

    By Michael Meyer

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Project for Excellence in Journalism’s Daily Briefing: For those who want a sober, commentary-free rundown on the most substantive media stories of a given day....

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17. August 7, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: music

    Great reads about great listens

    By Hazel Sheffield

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • maura.tumblr.com: When not editing the music section at The Village Voice, Maura Johnston posts compulsively about her new favorite songs, bits that didn’t make it...

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18. August 20, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: pop culture

    More than enough snark to get you through a workday

    By Sara Morrison

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Go Fug Yourself: Don't tell Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan I said this, but I think they're better at making fun of celebrity fashion than...

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19. August 10, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: space and astronomy

    Satisfy your "Curiosity" about space

    By Curtis Brainard

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Space.com: The most comprehensive website devoted the latest happenings in astronomy, space exploration, and sky watching. • NBCNews.com’s Cosmic Log: Science editor Alan Boyle delivers...

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20. August 1, 2012 06:50 AM

    Required skimming: sports

    The Olympics pass through periodically, but obsessive sports coverage is forever

    By Brent Cunningham

    This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. • Mike Tanier’s Walkthrough column for Football Outsiders: a mix of sharply written jokiness and detailed diagram analysis. Plus, lots of implicit, and not-so-implicit, media criticism....

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