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Pundit Contest Would Have Gone Down Better with a Spoonful of Psychology

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Psychological Research, Msm, Opinion, America’s Next Great Pundit, Psychology, Media, Social Influence, Winners, Critiques, Contest, Bias, Mythology, Reporters, Washington Post, Authority, Blogging, Media News
Bella DePaulo

Once upon a time there were well-worn paths to the top of the press pile. America's Next Great Pundit Contest, however, is based on the premise that well-informed voices could come from just about anywhere.

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The Pentagon Gives Us a Teachable, New Media Moment

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Web, Pentagon, New Media, New York Times, Online Media, Bloggers, Blogs, Newspapers, Afghanistan, Reporters, Iraq, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

The Pentagon plans to issue new restrictions that will make a serious attempt to restrict access to social networking sites.

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Poll: 40% Of Sports Reporters Gamble On Sports

Editor & Publisher | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Gambling, Sports, Reporters, Sports Reporters, Sports Media, Media News

Forty percent of sports reporters admitted in a recent survey to gambling on sports, while 5% said they had bet on sports they had covered....

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Think Again: The End of Local Reporting

Eric Alterman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Layoffs, Newspapers, Local News, Los Angeles Times, Reporters, Death of Newspapers, Investigative Journalism, Propublica, David Simon, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Eric Alterman

With much of the world of journalism focusing on the trials and tribulations of our great national newspapers, it's easy to forget the importance of Tip O'Neill's old adage: "All politics is local."

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Athletes Wising Up to Media Game

Danny Groner | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Sports, Manny Ramirez, Media Moguls, Public Relations, Image, Ron Artest, Reporters, Marketing, Media, LeBron James, Media News
Danny Groner

As sports fans, we're prone to forgive, though we rarely forget, because these players' contributions and abilities are what draws us to them, not their decisions.

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Mexico Drug War: Reporter Forced To Flee From Army, "The Biggest Cartel Of All"

Mother Jones | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico Drug Gangs, Mexico Drug War, Foreign Affairs, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexican Army, Reporters, Mexico Drugs, Mexico, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, Advocacy, World News

There is a man driving fast down a dirt road leading to the border. A rooster tail of dust marks his passage. He is very frightened and his 15-year-ol...

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If She's Seeking Higher Office, Sarah Palin May Already Be Failing Her First Test: Mastering the Media

Eric Deggans | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Republican Party, Politics, Cnn, NBC News, Sarah Palin, Gop, Reporters, Media, Alaska, Wasilla Sports Complex, Media News
Eric Deggans

Until Palin learns how to handle the press better, she will continue to suffer from self-inflicted wounds -- gashes that lie in her inability to tell a better story than the national press provides.

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Why We Joined the Media Blackout on Kidnapping of NYT Reporter

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Reporters, Journalistic Ethics, Taliban, Kidnapping, Journalism, The New York Times, David Rohde, Media News
Greg Mitchell

In the months after we found out about the kidnapping, I witnessed the most amazing press blackout on a major event that I have ever seen. I wonder how strongly this non-reporting will be criticized in the weeks to come.

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Laura Ling, Euna Lee Families Appeal To N. Korea

cnn.com | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Current TV, Laura Ling, North Korea, Euna Lee, Reporters, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, World News

Family members of two U.S. journalists imprisoned in North Korea said they are worried about the women's well-being and are pleading for their release...

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After North Korea: Why Reporters Take Risks (VIDEO)

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Oscar Grant, Twitter, Current TV, Laura Ling, United States, North Korea, Youth Radio, Journalist, Reporters, Euna Lee, Obama, Youthradio, San Francisco, Josh Wolf, World News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Josh Wolf was willing to spend 226 days in jail for his story. We visit him in San Francisco to talk to him about why reporters put themselves in dangerous situations.

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Reporter's Recorder Confiscated At Veterans Affairs Event

RCFP | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reporters, Department of Veterans Affairs, David Schultz, Reporter Recorder Confiscated, Veterans Affairs, Va Confiscates Recorder, Politics News

A Washington D.C.-based radio reporter says his audio storage device was inappropriately confiscated Tuesday by Veterans Affairs officials after he in...

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North Korea: 2 US Reporters Being Held For Crossing Border

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 04.21.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Reporters, North Korea, World News

SEOUL, South Korea — The United States has contacted representatives of North Korea about two detained American journalists and is waiting for a...

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Sri Lanka Rebels Lose Killinochci

Benjamin Bronfman | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka, Reporters, Newspapers, Media, Civil War, Colombo, Singhalese, Killinochci, Tavis Smiley, World News
Benjamin Bronfman

Even as the Sri Lankan conflict seems to be drawing to a close, the government, which has a long history of abducting Tamil civilians and suppressing information, has increased its security forces in the capitol.

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Reporter Jumps Ropeline To Try And Get Obama's Autograph

Politico | CAROL E. LEE & JOSH GERSTEIN | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Reporters, White House Reporters, Barack Obama, Media News

A reporter was escorted out of a White House event by Secret Service agents on Wednesday afternoon after he approached President Obama to seek an auto...

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Reporters' Role As Despised Chorus In Arab-Israeli Conflict

New York Times | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 02.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Gaza Invasion, Gaza, Gaza Conflict, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Reporters, Gaza Reporting, Media, Journalism, Media News

Faisal Husseini, a Palestinian leader who died at the start of this decade, used to tell a story about his first visit to Israel. The 1967 war had jus...

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Keeping Anderson Cooper Honest: How CNN and the Media Flubbed Obama's 2nd Swearing In

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Social Responsibility, Lobbyists, Morning Joe, Cheney, Media, Anderson Cooper, Fox, Anderson Cooper 360, Fourth Estate, Missing White House Emails, Blogs, Obama Swearing In, Bush Legacy, Cnn, Constitution, Chris Wallace, Journalists, Obama Innauguration, Reporters, Breaking Politics News, Oath of Office, Ed Henry, Obama Transparency, John Roberts Flub, Bill Plante, Cbs, Journalism, Television, CBS News, Media News
Ronald B. Robinson

The same media that is creating a negative impression of President Obama is saying little about the outgoing administration's widespread destruction of official government records.

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Bush's Final Press Conference

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Europe, Social Security, Pardons, Gop, Pardon, Mission Accomplished, Economy, Guantanamo, Gitmo, Bush Fatigue, Obama, Immigration, White House, Media, America, President, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Republican, Bush, Bailout, Katrina, Reporters, American Ideals, Press Conference, Moral Standing, Republican Party, Worst President Ever, Coast Guard, Press, Recession, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Mistakes, Abu Graib, Bubble, Press Corps, Mistake, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Lest I be accused of "Bush Derangement Syndrome," I'm reproducing some of the most interesting answers Bush gave today, with a minimum of snarky commentary.

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A Minnesota College Newspaper Editor on Israel-Hamas Conflict, from Tel Aviv

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Palestinian, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, University, College, Minnesota, Washington, Project Interchange, Reporters, University of Minnesota, World News
Karin Kloosterman

There are 6 sets of parents in America right now who might be wishing that their kids weren't college newspaper editors.

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A Scenario for the Future of News

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 12.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, News, Journalism, Layoffs, Internet, Websites, Reporters, New Media, Media, Media News
Jeff Jarvis

Could journalism die? Yes, but I have faith and optimism that it will survive, evolve, and grow. I believe there will be a growing market demand for journalism; I know there is a growing need.

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Reporter Assaulted At Palin Rally

The News And Observer | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Freedom of the Press, Reporters, In the Tank, North Carolina, Sarah Palin, Media News

A Greensboro reporter was knocked to the ground at the Sarah Palin rally Thursday. Greensboro News-Record reporter Joe Killian was attempting to inte...

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Jason Linkins

Reporter Complains About Obama Plane As World's Tiniest Violins Play Piteous Strains

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Howard Kurtz, Media Criticism, Reporters, Obama Press, Obama Reporters, John McCain Reporters, Media News

No one's opened up a new frontier of journalistic atrabiliousness as CBS' News Dean Reynolds, who took to CBS's "From The Road" blog to throw a pity party, celebrating his own diva-ish distemper.

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Retiring Wash Post Editor's Record Stained By Failure on Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Reporters, Washington Post, Iraq, Media, Wmd, Leonard Downie, Runup, Media News
Greg Mitchell

Downie's paper stands out as a "complicit enabler." The Post had a tragically poor performance in the run-up to the Iraq war, and Downie has failed (as far as I've seen) to fully admit that.

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Pentagon Censoring Reporters As Guantanamo Trials Near

McClatchy | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Pentagon, Newspapers, Warwire, Pentagon Censor Reporters, Iraq War, Military Censor Reporters, Guantanamo, Media and Guantanamo, Reporters, Politics News

A defense lawyer lets slip at the war court convening here that a battlefield commander changed an Afghanistan firefight report in a way that seemed t...

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Should Reporters Vote?

Washington Post | Chris Cillizza | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Reporters, Journalists Voting, Journalists Objectivity, Media News

This week's Potomac Primary brought to the fore one of the most contentious questions in the world of political journalism: Should reporters vote? Al...

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Prosecutors Know Who Killed Russian Journalist

New York Times | CJ Chivers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Russia, Journalism, Novaya Gazeta, Journalists, Anna Politkovskaya, Newspapers, Reporters, Media News

The independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper and Russian prosecutors know the identity of the man who killed Anna Politkovskaya, the newspaper's correspond...

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