Jack Shafer

Reuters Ramps Up Hiring To 'Become Best In The World'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.16.2011

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NEW YORK -- What is Reuters? Forty-two percent of Americans polled in May correctly identified Reuters as a global news agency. However, 22 percent ha...

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Jack Shafer Hired By Reuters

Daily Intel | By: | Posted 11.06.2011

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Jack Shafer, Slate's very recently laid-off media critic, is moving to Reuters, according to a source familiar with the matter....

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Jack Shafer Laid Off From Slate

Adweek | Posted 10.24.2011

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Slate, the online news magazine owned by the Washington Post Company, has laid off a number of employees, including editor-at-large Jack Shafer, Adwee...

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Advice For Journalists: Disaster Preparedness Edition

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's a reminder to reporters on the teevee: the terrible disaster that happened isn't happening to you, okay?

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Jack Shafer: How Dare You Call for the Resignation of Secretary Clinton

David Helfenbein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jack Shafer of Slate Magazine recently called for the resignation of Secretary Clinton. I have something to say to you, Jack: how dare you. Secret...

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Jack Shafer: Politicians' Media Dodge May Be A Good Thing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over at Slate, Jack Shafer takes note of the many politicians this campaign season who have beat a retreat from engaging with the press and suggests t...

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TNR's Marty Peretz Attempts 'Apology' For Column Bashing American Muslims

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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New Republic editor Marty Peretz added to his compendium of racist bilge in a column. Today, he offers up what purports to be an "apology."

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AP Thinks Heroin's Got a Brand New Bag, Misses Story

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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This kind of shallow reporting is why the media loses credibility -- a simple Google search or call to an academic expert on drugs or even a conversation with a long-time addict would reveal that $10 bags are not news.

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Plagiarism: The Words and the Music

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's always satisfying to see journalistic plagiarism outed. But when it comes to music, things can be more complicated.

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Jack Shafer: Concerned About My Bank Balance, and Knows My Inner Motivations. Where Have You Been All My Life?

John Thornton | Posted 05.25.2011

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The forty years between Kennedy and Clinton were an accident of economic and demographic history, resulting in a temporary but highly profitable industry structure for the papers that dominated their markets.

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Scritti Politti: March 5, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Burning up my inbox today is news of this story from the Charlotte News and Observer, about an anti-gay marriage rally in Raleigh. It contains thes...

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Initiating a Culture of Compensation

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a J-school student, I ask myself: is it crazy to pay for an education in a profession that refuses to charge for its services? Giving away news for free was a terrible folly. It's time now to move on and cough up.

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Jack Shafer: New York Times Shouldn't Replace Bill Kristol

Slate Magazine | Jack Shafer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just because I think that the New York Times should leave vacant the opinion-columnist position just evacuated by William Kristol doesn't mean I think...

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David Gregory: Slate's Jack Shafer Has Good Advice

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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I quite like most of the "unsolicited advice" that Jack Shafer, of Slate, has teed up for the benefit of incoming Meet The Press host David Gregory. ...

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The Denver Media Migraine

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fifteen thousand journalists in Denver and they couldn't even report what actually happened there. Instead, they invented a storyline of their liking....

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One Last Comment on "The Cover" ... and Humor

Jerry Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

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After the torrential deluge of media and web commentary about the controversial New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama fist-bumping in Muslim a...

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