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IN THE SPOTLIGHT ...
by Jon Margolis Mar 04, 2010 -
Journalists love polls.
And how could they not? Polls contain information. Objective, mathematical, precise information, presented with scientific certainty. No opinion. No fuzziness. Just the facts, ma’am.
Better yet, they come on shiny paper with colo ...
Today's Media News
 - Nielsen: Users Won't Pay For Web Sites
Wayne Friedman, MediaPost News, February 16, 2012 - Live, from New York, it's ... Betty White hosting 'SNL'
Gary Levin, USA Today, March 11, 2010 - Scorecard ‘09: UK’s Top Regional Papers Have Lost Half A Billion In Sales
paidContent:UK, March 11, 2010 - Facebook threatens to sue Daily Mail
Charles Arthur, The Guardian, March 11, 2010 - Complaints of runaway Priuses spike, but it could have something to do with psychology
Erin McClam, Tom Krisher, Chicago Tribune, March 11, 2010 - ABC's insertion of wrong video in Toyota story causes problems
David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, March 11, 2010 - Hamas frees British journalist in Gaza
Alastair Macdonald, Washington Post, March 11, 2010 - China orders reporters trained in Marxist theory
Associated Press, Washington Post, March 11, 2010 - Press group: 8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city
Mark Stevenson, Washington Post, March 11, 2010 - Three Years, Three Stories
Tricia Sartor, Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, March 10, 2010
Articles
One the morning of Election Day, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s campaign last year, was on NBC’s Today show to plug his new book, The Audacity to Win. But first, co-host Meredith Vieira had to ask him about that day’s elections Anybody who’s been in this business for a week or more has heard the gripe of someone who lost all faith in news coverage the first time there was a story in the neighborhood Way back when I was still young and green enough to be thrilled to be in possession of an honest-to-God press pass, an old-timer passed on a piece of wisdom. “Having a press pass,” he said, “has kept me out of a lot of places I coulda gotten into if I hadn’t had a press pass.” Are we all forgetting something?
Or, more precisely, ignoring something? Well, not entirely, at least not any more. Not since Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York Times declared that one reason for the current political tumult
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Bill Kovach Honored
Bill Kovach, founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists,will receive the National Press Foundation’s 2010 W.M. Kiplinger Award.
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect 
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