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Big Stories In 2009: What Was The Biggest News Story Of The Year?

Posted 12.07.2009 | Media

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For years, editors in newsrooms across the country have raked over the year's biggest headlines, separating important stories from the frivolous to co...

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Tribune Company Papers To Give Up AP For One Week

AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media

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CHICAGO — Tribune Co., owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and several other news outlets, will not use most Associated Press co...

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AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Cooling, Ap, Statisticians, Freakonomics, Superfreakonomics, Weather, Weather-Trends, Home News

WASHINGTON — Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.

Only one problem: It's not true, according to several independent statisticians who analyzed temperature data for The Associated Press.

The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It's been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate trend or just weather's normal ups and downs?

In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature declines over time.

"If you look at the data and sort of cherry-pick a micro-trend within a bigger trend, that technique is particularly suspect," said John Grego, a professor of statistics at the University of South Carolina.

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AP Files Lawsuit Over Video Of Grenade Detonation At Wisconsin Prison

AP | SCOTT BAUER | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media

MADISON, Wis. ? The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections seeking the release of a video that shows ...

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Found On Twitter: Fake AP Stylebook

Twitter | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

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We know this isn't exactly a piece about books, but it is about writing, and we thought it was funny -- for all the journalists and grammar geeks out ...

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Shepard Fairey Admits Faking Evidence In AP Case

AP | HILLEL ITALIE and JOE MANDAK | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

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PITTSBURGH — Artist Shepard Fairey, who recently admitted concealing a key mistake in a lawsuit over his use of an Associated Press photo in his...

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AP Asks If Obama Is "Obnoxiously Articulate"

Ari Melber | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

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Political reporters have now toggled from worrying that Obama gets "too much" media coverage to asking whether he is "too" good at communicating through the media.

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AP Considers Charging Online Customers More For Faster News

AP | JEREMIAH MARQUEZ | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

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HONG KONG — The Associated Press is considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain period, perhaps ...

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Brave Editor Defends Publishing AP's Controversial "Dying Marine" Photo

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Joshua Bernard, Afghanistan, War Photos, Ap, Iraq, Associated Press, Internet Censorship, Media News

I chronicled the controversy over a photograph shot in Afghanistan that captured the moments after a U.S. Marine was mortally wounded by a grenade. It's fascinating to look at one case study.

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Palin Calls The AP "Heartless And Selfish" For Releasing Photo Of Dying Marine

CNN Political Ticker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Sarah Palin is calling the AP's decision to release a battlefield photo of a dying Marine over the family's objection "an evil thing to do." ...

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Rare AP Photo Captures Deadly Attack on U.S. Marine in Afghanistan -- Pentagon Protests

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Photography, Ap, Media, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Photos, War Photos, Ap Marine Photo, Ap Photo, Associated Press, Marine Photo, Media News

U.S. media outlets have been shamefully reluctant to carry truly graphic images of the cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Earlier today, the AP published such a photo.

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Those "Death Panels" Really Do Exist

Karl Frisch | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media

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Death panels are real. They do exist. Your own insurance provider could be in on it. And it's time the media said so.

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AP Journalists Emilio Morenatti, Andi Jatmiko Wounded In Afghanistan Bombing

AP | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

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KABUL — Two Associated Press journalists wounded in a bomb blast while on assignment with the U.S. military in southern Afghanistan were evacuat...

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Reuters Exec Tells AP: "Stop Whining"

Reuters MediaFile | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media

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Let's stop whining and start having real conversations across party lines. Let's get online publishers, search engines, aggregators, ad networks, and ...

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How (and Why) to Replace the AP

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Copyright, Link Economy, Ap, Associated Press Fair Use, Associated Press, Associated Press Internet, Media News

What we need is an infrastructure for a content marketplace online that rewards the creators of original reporting by exploiting the essential nature of how the Internet operates, that is, the link.

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Associated Press To "Protect Its Content Online" By Tracking Use

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

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The Associated Press is moving ahead with plans for a system to detect unlicensed use of its content and potentially create new ways for the 163-year-...

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AP: After Palin, Ayotte Resigns to Explore NH Senate; Sotomayor Is the Bar: Welcome to the 24/7 Election Cycle of the Woman

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

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We live in the era of the seamless 24/7 campaign. You snooze, you lose. Could just be the change that allows a new slate of candidates, including women, to emerge in both parties.

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AP Eyes Higher Fees For Internet Heavyweights

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

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The Associated Press hopes to negotiate more lucrative licensing deals with major Web sites while mining new revenue from advertisers and readers as t...

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A.P. In Deal To Deliver Nonprofits' Investigative Journalism

New York Times | Richard Perez-Pena | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media

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Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday...

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The Faux MB Environmental Scandal That Wasn't

Josh Dorner | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Endangerment-Finding, Epa, Jake Tapper, John Barrasso, Shawne Mcgibbon, Peter Orszag, Omb, Bush Administration, Small Business Administration, Mercatus Center, Koch Industries, Media Criticism, ABC News, Ap, Global Warming, Green News

Rather than being some shadowy "White House document" objecting to those overzealous greens at the EPA, it could have been written by almost anyone within the vast federal bureaucracy.

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AP CEO Tom Curley Threatens Google: "They Will Not Get Our Copy Going Forward"

Forbes | Susan Lee | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media

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The AP and Google have been debating content and compensation issues for months. In an interview with Forbes on Wednesday, [Associated Press Chief Exe...

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If the AP Has the Right to Do What It's Done, Then So Do I

Shepard Fairey | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media

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If AP photographs that do nothing but depict other artists' work are protected by fair use, then my work has to be, too. The AP can't have it both ways.

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The Debate Over Online News: It's the Consumer, Stupid

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Associated Press Fair Use, Internet, Tom Curley, Timesselect, Ap, Newspaper Association of America, AP Fair Use, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Jarvis, Associated Press, New York Times, Ap Tom Curley, Online News, Online Newspapers, Media News

For me, the key question is whether those of us working in the media embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists.

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AP's Real Enemies Are Its Customers: New York Times

New York Times | Saul Hansell | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media

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If The Associated Press could completely win its war on search engines and news aggregators, it's hard to see that the news association or the newspap...

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