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 Jenna Bush Hager 
 Joins Today as 
 Contributor 

Ex-president's daughter will report on education, not politics

Aug 30, 09 11:11 PM CDT
(AP) - The Today show's newest hire has extensive White House experience—she's Jenna Hager, the daughter of former President Bush and Laura Bush. The new correspondent will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education, not politics, Today executive producer Jim Bell tells the AP, adding that the unsolicited... More »

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entertainment • television • NBC • Jenna Bush • journalism • Today show • George W. Bush • Jim Bell

ANALYSIS

 Pentagon Grades 
 Reporters' War Coverage 

Documents shed light on Defense efforts to shape news from Afghanistan

Aug 27, 09 8:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - With a view to trying to influence coverage of the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon is grading journalists’ work, the Stars and Stripes reports. The military newspaper says it has documents that counter official denials of the practice, with coverage rated as “positive,” “neutral,” or “... More »

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Pentagon • journalism • Department of Defense • Constitution • public relations • media coverage • Afghanistan war • Rendon Group

OBITUARY

 Writer Dominick 
 Dunne Dead at 83 


Aug 26, 09 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dominick Dunne, the best-selling author who covered some of the past two decades’ highest-profile trials for Vanity Fair, died today at 83; his son, actor Griffin Dunne, told the magazine bladder cancer was the cause. Dominick Dunne served in World War II and produced TV shows and feature films before... More »

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Phil Spector • crime • Vanity Fair • celebrity trials • Bill Clinton • impeachment • OJ Simpson • journalism • Dominick Dunne • Graydon Carter • crime novels • bladder cancer • Griffin Dunne

tributes

 Cronkite 'Spoke for the Nation' 


Jul 18, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The tributes are pouring in for Walter Cronkite:
  • Howard Kurtz, Washington Post: His "passing, in the end, is the passing of an era, an era of black-and-white television, of mass audiences, of a slower time when the country waited for the headlines at 6:30 in the
... More »

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journalism • journalist • Walter Cronkite • news anchor • CBS Evening News

 Forget Best: Colbert 
  Wants to Be Worst  

Demands title from Olbermann over sweet-talking email to Mark Sanford

Jul 16, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stephen Colbert is a glutton for punishment. Keith Olbermann dished some out to conservative media outlets Tuesday, spanking them for plying Gov. Mark Sanford with email offers of friendly treatment, and awarding them “Worst People in the World” honors. But he omitted Colbert, despite Colbert’s email offering Sanford... More »

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entertainment • press • journalism • Keith Olbermann • American media • Stephen Colbert • The Colbert Report • Mark Sanford • conservative media

OPINION

 Woodruff: I'm Going Back to Iraq 


Jul 13, 09 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bob Woodruff returned to Iraq today, 3 years after he and his cameraman were seriously injured in a bombing there, he blogs for ABC. Still rehabbing from a serious brain injury, he says returning was a tough decision. “None of us could ever have imagined then that I would... More »

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Iraq • journalism • injury • Bob Woodruff • ABC News • traumatic brain injury

OPINION

 Chicago Paper's 
 'Profit' Model? 
 Reader Donations 

Independent Chicago paper is way ahead of its time

Jul 13, 09 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - As media outlets struggle to find ways to become profitable again, “the Chi-Town Daily News is way ahead of its time,” writes Foster Kamer for Gawker. A recent article ended with a message asking for reader donations to recoup the $726 it cost to run. “Yes, they... More »

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media • newspaper • journalism • recession • nonprofit • print journalism • Chi-Town Daily News

UPDATED

Scotland Yard Launches, Ends Probe of News Corp. Hacking

Unsourced report broke no new ground: cops

Jul 9, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scotland Yard, smarting from a report that it failed to inform victims of a British tabloid's rampant phone hacking, today opened and quickly closed an investigation into the potentially explosive matter, reports the New York Times. Cops reportedly had evidence of thousands of incidences of illegal activity by private investigators... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • The Sun • United Kingdom • Scotland Yard • journalism • hacking • Les Hinton • News of the World • News Corp • journalistic ethics • Andy Coulson

 Post Sells Access to  
 Officials, Reporters 


For $25,000, lobbyists can meet with lawmakers, WaPo staff

Jul 2, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lobbyists who pay $25,000 to $250,000 can attend off-the-record Washington Post gatherings with administration officials, members of Congress, and members of the paper's staff, Politico reports. The offer, described on a flier passed along by a lobbyist, “essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private... More »

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Congress • media • newspaper • Washington Post • journalism • reporter • Obama administration • Katharine Weymouth

Analysis

Politico's Obsessive Focus Is Future of News

It's all politics, all the time, and it works

Jul 1, 09 6:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you want to see the future of news—and how it will be delivered—look no further than Politico as a reasonable guide, writes Newser founder Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair. Unlike general-interest newspapers, which flail about knowing too little about everything, Politico has an obsessive focus:... More »

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politics • news • online news • journalism • Michael Wolff • Politico

Media Kept
Quiet on
Journalist's Kidnapping

Times convinced all to put reporter's safety first

Jun 21, 09 5:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Media outlets ranging from major newspapers to blogs agreed to stay quiet on the kidnapping of New York Times reporter David Rohde, who escaped Taliban captors Friday after seven months, out of fear for his safety, reports the Washington Post. Times executive editor Bill Keller decided sit on the story... More »

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Taliban • New York Times • kidnapping • journalism • Bill Keller • David Rohde

Papers Can't Ask for Bailout, Seek Rule Change Instead

Handout would violate journos' watchdog role

Jun 3, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the industry in dire straits, some in the journalism business want government help—but they’re not looking for a financial bailout, Reuters reports. “That is so clearly contrary to what our role is as a watchdog that it’s just not acceptable,” said a former newspaper... More »

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media • newspaper • antitrust • journalism • American media • newspaper industry

OPINION

Web Will Make Conservatives Miss the Times


May 27, 09 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives have delighted in making a piñata out of the New York Times, but they’re not going to like the post-Times world, writes Francis Wilkinson of The Week. “Like most powerful, entrenched institutions, the Times has a deep bias in favor of the way... More »

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New York Times • conservative • online news • journalism • media bias • Huffington Post

 Death Row Challenges 
 Hurt by Newsroom Cuts 

Lawyers fear shortage of media resources may result in innocent people being executed

May 21, 09 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The huge cuts in newsroom staff around the country may have inadvertently condemned some innocent prisoners to death, the New York Times reports. Lawyers complain that many of the investigative journalists who would have once hotly pursued a story about a wrongly accused Death Row inmate aren't working any more.... More »

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execution • journalism • exonerate • death row • Innocence Project • investigative journalism • exoneration

OPINION

 With News, 
 'We Get What 
 We Pay For' 

Sick media must not die

May 10, 09 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - We know the mainstream media is sick, but it doesn’t have to die, writes Frank Rich in the New York Times. When television appeared, people worried it would eat movies, Broadway, and radio; all these forms still exist, having “learned to adapt and to collaborate with the monster.... More »

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Internet • newspaper • journalism • free • Frank Rich • new media • business models • reporting • investigative journalism

OPINION

The—Problem—With—Em—Dashes

Lionel Shriver laments the loss of the semicolon to its curt cousin

May 8, 09 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - A punctuation plague is raging through contemporary prose, indulged in by ordinarily excellent writers and hacks alike. It’s the “em dash,” writes Lionel Shriver for Standpoint—that punchy, aggressive punctuation mark beloved for its flexibility. It can replace the geriatric semicolon, linking two elements of a single... More »

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writing • journalism • style • punctuation • opinion

 Press Freedom 
 Declines Worldwide 

New report sees losses in all regions for first time ever

May 2, 09 6:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Press freedom declined worldwide last year for the seventh year in a row, and for the first time suffered losses in all regions, according to a new report by Freedom House. Slipping from “free” to “partially free” were Israel, Italy and Hong Kong, while Cambodia fell to “... More »

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Israel • media • free speech • Hong Kong • Italy • journalism • Cambodia • freedom of press • Freedom House

Pulitzer Winner Was Laid Off

But he started Arizona news site with axed editor who supervised heralded series

Apr 21, 09 3:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pulitzer, Schmulitzer: being a terrific journalist is no insurance against unemployment. East Valley Trib reporter Paul Giblin was laid off from the Arizona paper last year even though he co-authored its series on immigration crackdowns that won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting yesterday. The supervising metro editor was also... More »

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Arizona • layoffs • Pulitzer Prize • journalism • fiscal crisis • recession depression • East Valley Tribune • Paul Giblin

New York
Times Garners
5 Pulitzers 

Spitzer scandal among winners in rare bright spot for newspaper

Apr 20, 09 3:40 PM CDT
(AP) - The New York Times received five Pulitzer Prizes today, including one for breaking the call-girl scandal that destroyed Gov. Eliot Spitzer's career. The Las Vegas Sun won for public service for exposing a high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip. America's top journalism awards were announced... More »

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New York Times • Pulitzer Prize • journalism • Eliot Spitzer • Detroit Free Press • newspaper industry • Las Vegas Sun • East Valley Tribune

O'Reilly Crews Stalk, Quiz
His Enemies

Harassment accusations follow confrontations

Apr 16, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill O’Reilly is a believer in the power of the ambush interview. His producers have become expert at stalking victims, catching them in public places, and putting them on the spot, the New York Times reports. “When the bad guys won’t comment…we will find them,... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • journalism • Fox News

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