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Robin Hood in Reverse in US: Seven Examples

Bill Quigley | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Bloomberg, Taxes, Wealth, Hedge Funds, US Poverty, Robin Hood, Pro-Publica, New York Times, Financial TImes, Business News
Bill Quigley

The rich have been getting richer and the poor and middle have been getting poorer in the US recently. Here are seven examples that show how the US is going through Robin Hood in Reverse.

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NPR: The Saga Continues

Bill Moyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, House of Representatives, Npr, Politics, Robert Frost, National Public Radio, Lloyd Doggett, Pro-Publica, Gop, Right Wing, US Army, Saxby Chambliss, Daniel Zwerdling, Republican Party, Public Broadcasting, Purple Heart, Media News
Bill Moyers

The modestly-paid but dedicated journalists at NPR are part of a forty year history that has given listeners a deeper and richer portrait of America and the world than any other broadcast news organization in the country.

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So When Does the Sputnik Moment Begin?

Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, President Obama, New York H20, Gas Drilling, New York City, Dick Cheney, Radioactive, Apollo, Sputnik Moment, Gasland, Nasa, Natural Gas, Energy, Pro Publica, Haliburton, Democracy Now, Frack, Fracking, Barack Obama, New York Watershed, Politics News
Susan Deily-Swearingen

Why do we continue to funnel money into programs like additional gas wells in the New York State watershed instead of embracing newer, cleaner programs like wind and solar?

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The 2010 Newsroom: Lean and Techy

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guardian, Australia, Smart Phones, Media, Britain, Telegraaf Media Group, Trends in Newsrooms 2010, Pulitzer Prize, North Africa, London, Paris, Social Media, North American, Convergence, Middle East, Editors Weblog, Hyperlocal News, Rupert Murdoch, E-Readers, Latin American, Washington Post, Investigative Journalism, WAN-IFRA, Pro Publica, Ipad, Google, Shaping the Future of the Newspaper, News Corp, Asian, Bbc, Robocop Editor, Newsroom, 9th International Newsroom Summit, Brazil, Dutch, World Editors Forum, Entrepreneurial Journalism, New York Times, European, Mobile Apps, Tablets, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Newsrooms should be converged, integrated, flexible, lean and techy, to survive in today's fast-changing media landscape, but news organizations shoul...

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Rattling a Fair Elections Foe

Wendy Block | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proposition 8, California Clean Money Campaign, Center for Media and Democracy, Pro-Publica, Wwwsourcewatchorg, Open Secrets, MAPLight.Org, Fair Elections, Proposition 15, Tobacco, Littlesis, Frank Schubert, Sarah Palin, Eyes and Ears, Los Angeles News
Wendy Block

Thanks to my work last year on the Huffington Post's citizen journalism unit, I stumped an opponent of Proposition 15, the California Fair Elections Act (CFEA).

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Fracking Proves Dangerous In Pennsylvania Case

David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pro-Publica, Colorado, Diana DeGette, Natural Gas, Pennsylvania, Fracking, Denver News

ProPublica Monday reported environmental officials were scrambling to clean up 8,000 gallons of a "potential carcinogen" manufactured by Halliburton a...

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HuffPost's Investigative Fund: New Slice of a New News Pie

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investigative Journalism, Huffpost's Investigative Journalism, Huffington Post, Huffington Post Investigative Journalism, Pro Publica, Media News
Jeff Jarvis

This is where foundation and public support will enter into the new ecosystem of journalism: not by taking over newspapers but by funding investigations and other slices of a new journalistic pie.

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