NYT Sourcing: An "Internet Link" "Alleges…"
By Liz Cox Barrett How's this for sourcing (flagged by a tipster) in the New York Times's A1 story today, "Turkish Funds Helped Group Test Blockade of Gaza:" The Turkish group [Insani Yardim Vakfi] is a charity, members said, but the Israel Project, a private nonprofit advocacy group, sent an Internet link to journalists with...
With Graduation Series, NPR’s Anecdotes Tell Only Part of the Story
By Holly Yeager NPR is marking graduation season with a series on recent grads and “the frustrations and fears they face as they set out in search of work.” But while these sketches are rich in detail, they suffer from that unfortunate journalism habit of looking for anecdotes in places where we’re comfortable, among wannabe...
WSJ iPad Numbers Are Looking Good
By Ryan Chittum Rupert Murdoch says The Wall Street Journal has 10,000 subscribers paying for the paper on the two-month-old iPad. That's an excellent start. What does it mean for revenue—assuming we can take Murdoch at his word (a big assumption, I know!). The WSJ costs $17.29 a month on the iPad. That's $173,000 a...
Fineman on Gores: "Finally"
By Liz Cox Barrett The "surprise" of it all. That has been the overwhelming theme in the (unsurprising) flurry of awkward, speculative commentary from Beltway pundits and reporters in reaction to the email announcement yesterday by Al and Tipper Gore that they are separating. For example: The Washington Post's Lois Romano on MSNBC: "It totally...
Sequestered in Memphis
The NYT does strong reporting on blacks’ vanishing gains
Nick Carr and How Links Hurt Reading
Yes, embedded links are distracting
Turner on CNN: More Green Journalism; "Less Yellow Journalism"
By Liz Cox Barrett CNN is 30 years old today! The on-air celebration has been, so far, low key. There was birthday cake at the end of Fareed Zakaria's show on Sunday. And Fredericka Whitfield has been rolling out bits of a sit-down interview with CNN's founder, Ted Turner. Some highlights from the Turner interview:...
Meet the "Shadow Congress"
By Liz Cox Barrett TPM's Zachary Roth (formerly of CJR) and Justin Elliott have put together an interactive map of the "Shadow Congress," the 171 (by their count) "former members of Congress currently working on behalf of private interests in Washington's influence-peddling industry." Write Roth and Elliott: It's not exactly breaking news that Washington is...
What Congress Giveth, It Also Taketh Away
Farewell, COBRA extensions?
Embrace the Wonk
A new opportunity for reporters and political scientists
Audit Notes: Journal Greatness, The Shallows, Fortune Too Kind
By Ryan Chittum The Wall Street Journal drops part two of its series on how the BP catastrophe happened. I praised yesterday's devastating investigation of BP corner-cutting here. Today's is also outstanding—a cinematic reconstruction of the events that destroyed the Deep Horizon. And look! A classic Journal leder gets a classic Journal headline: There Was...
