August/September 2008 |
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Investigative Steamroller
Online Exclusive » As he retires, Pat Stith reflects on four decades of exposing corruption
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By
Lindsay Kalter
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Welcome to Web 3.0
Online Exclusive » Getting to Know the Semantic Web
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By
James Sanborn
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All the News That's Fit to Tweet
Online Exclusive » Reporters Embrace Microblogging
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By
Laurie White
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Bowing to the Inevitable
Online Exclusive »: MSNBC wisely drops Olbermann and Matthews as politics anchors.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Talking to Themselves
Online Exclusive »: Rachel Maddow’s promotion reflects and reinforces the polarization so prevalent on cable and in the blogosphere—and in American politics.
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By
Rem Rieder
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Cable's Clout
With their obsessive single-topic focus, are the three 24-hour cable news channels setting the agenda for the rest of the media when it comes to the presidential campaign—even though most of the material they endlessly flog originates somewhere else?
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By
Paul Farhi
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Handheld Headlines
News organizations are embracing content aimed at cell phones and other mobile devices as part of their survival strategy in the digital age.
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By
Arielle Emmett
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The Oakland Project
In an echo of the Arizona Project that investigated the murder of slain journalist Don Bolles in 1976, Bay Area news outlets, journalism schools and media groups have joined forces to complete the unfinished work of murdered Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey.
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By
Sherry Ricchiardi
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Disconnected
As embattled news organizations try to safeguard their futures with intensely local coverage, there is often a wide gulf between journalists and the communities they cover.
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By
Will Bunch
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Notice What You Notice
Stop obsessing about the depressing industry news on Romenesko and open your eyes to all of the amazing stories out there.
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By
Beth Macy
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More Than a Notion?
How Barack Obama is influencing our vocabulary.
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By
Lee Thornton
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An AJR Homecoming
Jennifer Dorroh is AJR's new managing editor.
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By
Rem Rieder
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On the Go
What’s the outlook for mobile TV news?
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By
Deborah Potter
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Win Some, Lose Some
Tribune’s editorial approach is as wrongheaded as its business ideas are refreshing.
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John Morton
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First Responders
Citizen media’s agility during the Iowa floods offers a lesson to traditional journalists.
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By
Barb Palser
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Voice in the Wilderness
A retired journalist provides up-to-the-minute local news online in his rural Virginia county.
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By
Kevin Rector
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Politico Animal
A year and a half after launch, Politico lives up to the hype.
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By
Lindsey McPherson
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Blog Binge
More than 70 percent of the political journalists surveyed by communications firm Brodeur in May said they spent at least an hour per day reading blogs and other online media. AJR asked seven political writers and reporters to name their must-reads.
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Going Long
A new quarterly bucks trends toward Web publishing and short-form journalism.
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Melanie Lidman
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Investigating His Own Dark Story
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
By David Carr
Simon & Schuster
388 pages; $26
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Book review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
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Sweet!
Welcome to the high-energy world of Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times Washington bureau chief, indefatigable blogger, Obama watchdog—and interviewing technique guru.
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By
Lindsay Kalter
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The Future of Newspapers
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Vanishing Iraq Coverage
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Shameful Behavior
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