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Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a fantastic story reporting on a critical meeting Rupert Murdoch held last May to plot how to contain the hacking scandal. The detail and reporting ...
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Here's a good Wall Street Journal page-one story on how the energy boom is driving economic activity across the U.S. The lede anecdote is smart. Russell Gold visits a ...
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Mitt Romney is: A phony An Eagle Scout The Dad who’s never home The man you want to marry but not the kind of man who sends a thrill up your leg Mr Collins (a marriage of ...
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I like this Nieman Journalism Lab piece on how Salon hopped off the hamster wheel and saw site traffic increase dramatically. Salon's traffic jumped 40 percent even though it ...
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Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times reports this morning on new criminal charges against robosigning company DocX and its founder—what could be a big development in the ...
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The media influence public opinion about climate change, but not as much as national politicians and the state of the economy do, according to a new analysis of eight years of ...
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American Banker's Victoria Finkle and Jeff Horwitz report on the credit card industry's payment-protection racket and note that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ...
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I grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, so a headline on The New Yorker ’s homepage Monday, declaring “Park Slope is Dead,” peaked my interest. Alas, the story contained no ...
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Next time someone asks you to write or broadcast something for free, send them this.
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The Tender Hour of Twilight | By Richard Seaver | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | 480 pages, $35.00 An engaging memoir about the history of the publishing industry sounds about ...
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In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media ...
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Press favorite Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase is paying $110 million to settle a class-action suit against it for gouging its customers on overdraft transactions. The bank, ...
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A recent CBS MoneyWatch piece titled “Social Insecurity” was one of those breezy, glib stories that seemed to telegraph important stuff, especially to the younger set, but ...
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COLORADO — It’s caucus day here in Colorado, and recent campaign coverage from the state’s largest paper has been disappointingly content-free. And it’s not for lack ...
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Kevin Drum looks at how regressive taxes are at the state and local level, an issue that doesn't get nearly enough attention. While the federal system is progressive overall, ...
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Brad DeLong catches The Wall Street Journal editorial page in some hilariously bad math. Here's Stephen Moore: Federal workers on balance still receive much better benefits ...
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NEVADA — Political reporters here—after clearing some hurdles placed in their paths—have seized on two essential elements following Mitt Romney’s sizable win in ...
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Last week, I wrote about the trend in political reporters confessing their bias for an exciting, close primary race; a few of them accordingly professed the media’s ...
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When The New York Times sent an e-mail to editorial cartoonists on Monday announcing that “The Sunday Review section is bringing back editorial cartoons!,” several ...
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There are three main reasons that I like entering into bets with people. The first is, simply, that it’s fun. The second is that I love to win bets. And the third is that I ...
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A few days ago USA Today trumpeted some health policy news: enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans is up and premiums are down. The paper reported that premiums for the ...
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Follow the money. Check the facts. And grow a pair. OHIO — As the GOP presidential primary extravaganza continues to roll along, disenchantment has infected some ...
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The Super Bowl is over, thank heavens, so all those incorrectly punctuated signs rooting for one team or another can come down. You know the ones: They say “Go Giants” or ...
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Few Western correspondents have a background as unique as Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s . A native of Iraq at the time of the US invasion, he was working as an architect in Baghdad ...
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The New York Times has an excellent investigation today that shows in a new light how the SEC lets Wall Street off the hook despite repeated fraud. Edward Wyatt reports that ...
