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Jason Linkins

AP's Ron Fournier Concerned By Obama's Teleprompter "Crutch"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics


You know, chances are, the Associated Press's Ron Fournier doesn't want to be thought of as weird or an ignorant guy, but he's not helping his cause a...

U.S. Prefers to Leave Iraq Through Jordan and Kuwait, Rather than Turkey

Harut Sassounian | Posted 04.05.2009 | World


Harut Sassounian

Turkish officials have been salivating at the opportunity of presenting the United States with a series of demands in return for allowing U.S. troops to leave through Turkey.

Brandon Neely, Former Guantanamo Guard, Recalls Systematic Torture, Sexual Abuse Of Detainees

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Army Pvt. Brandon Neely was scared when he took Guantanamo's first shackled detainees off a bus. Told to expect vicious ...

Shepard Fairey Sues AP Over Obama Photo Copyright

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — An artist who created a famous image of Barack Obama before he became president sued The Associated Press on Monday, asking a judge t...

AP Accuses Obama Artist Shepard Fairey Of Copyright Infringement

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics


NEW YORK — On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: a pensive Barack Obama looking ...

Obama, The Press, And The "Bipartisan" Trap

Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media


Eric Boehlert

While addressing the issue of bipartisanship the press holds only one party accountable: the Democrats.

New Report: We're Heading for "Water Bankruptcy"

Tara Lohan | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green


Tara Lohan

It takes lots energy to move, use and treat water. And it takes lots of water to cool power plants. With that thinking, things like desalination and ethanol make less and less sense.

Change Congress -- We're Bringing Sexy Back

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Lawrence Lessig

Change Congress is bringing sexy back... to the campaign finance reform debate. The donor strike will make sure politicians are well aware of how much money they're losing if they oppose reform.

Obama vs. the Media

John McQuaid | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media


John McQuaid

Obama (correctly, I think) sees the press representing two things that are clear obstacles to his ambitious plans: official Washington and a trivia-obsessed media culture.

Hudson Crash Required Journalists to Collaborate

Danny Groner | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media


Danny Groner

The photographs taken at the site of the Hudson crash may be the best proof yet that citizen journalism is not only essential, but is here to stay.

Car sales, 2008; even worse than we thought

Steve Parker | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

Monday brought three conference calls, each about an hour, with executives from each of the Detroit Three announcing, dissecting and, most of all, spi...

Toyota Projects First-Ever Annual Loss; Congress Disses Detroit

Steve Parker | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

Congress took a perverse pleasure in giving Detroit's CEOs and the UAW president the third degree -- unnecessary theater while our country suffers this economic decline.

You Morons, What Have You Done With Our Money?

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business


Gail Vida Hamburg

Was it too much to ask Congress to examine this government intervention in the free market critically before authorizing the transfer of US taxpayer dollars to benefit the banking sector?

Byline Strike At AP Following Labor Dispute

Editor & Publisher | Posted 01.16.2009 | Media


The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America claimed tonight that reporters and photographers at the Associated Press "are withholding byline...

Blagojevich Proves Obama is Clean

Cenk Uygur | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

The headline shouldn't be about how this is a problem for Obama. The headline should be, "Blagojevich Case Proves Obama Can't Be Bought." He is indisputably clean.

The Media's Liberal Reverse Bias

J. L. Ballinger | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics


J. L. Ballinger

Obama could pick almost anybody for his cabinet and it would represent something new from the current lame ducks.

CNN Wire Service Takes On AP, Luring AP's Disgruntled Newspaper Customers

New York Times | Tim Arango and Richard Perez Pena | Posted 01.01.2009 | Media


CNN, in the afterglow of an election season of record ratings for cable news, is elbowing in on a new line of business: catering to financially strain...

Associated Press To Cut 10 Percent Of Workforce In 2009: Report

Reuters | Robert MacMillan | Posted 12.22.2008 | Media


NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Associated Press plans to cut up to 10 percent of its workforce in 2009, according to sources at the news service, as it cope...

America Is Back, Now the Hard Part

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media


Mort Rosenblum

Real news has a value like a gallon of gas or a pound of flour. Reporters have to go get it, and editors need to make sure it is accurate. Buy the real thing; it is cheaper than a cup of coffee.

Jason Linkins

AP Issues Style Ruling On Presidential Nomenclature

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media


Via Poynter, we learn of an update, issued by the arcane keepers of the AP Style Manual: Effective Thursday at 3 a.m. EST, the AP will use the title ...

Associated Press Offers Discounted Plan

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media


The Associated Press announced on Thursday that it will offer new price discounts to newspapers and remove restrictions on the articles they receive, ...

AP Poll That Shows Tightening Race Is Flawed

AP/AmericaBlog | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


A new poll was released earlier today by the Associated Press that seemed to make imply that the race was tightening on a national scale. The Associa...

Tribune Company To Drop AP

Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media


Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major ...

TWiB Episode Six - New Poll States "Race" will Matter in Election!

Elon James White | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media


Elon James White

The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to debut its web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post, with the sixth entry in the series.

AP Hanoi Bureau Chief Arrested, Beaten (VIDEO)

AP/Ed+Pub | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media


The AP reports: BANGKOK, Thailand -- An Associated Press reporter in Vietnam was punched, choked and hit over the head with a camera by police who de...