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A Washington, DC seminar program examines issues, ethics, and the elements of journalism.
Today's Media News
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Wayne Friedman, MediaPost News, February 16, 2012 - The Education of Herb And Marion Sandler: When two patrons of aggressive journalism became its targets, they cried foul. They ha
Jeff Horwitz, Columbia Journalism Review, March 19, 2010 - CNN's ‘John King, USA' Getting An Online Tryout
Alex Weprin, Broadcasting & Cable, March 19, 2010 - With NBC part of his past, Conan O'Brien is in talks with Fox for a new late-night show
Frazier Moore, Chicago Tribune, March 19, 2010 - Economist not distributed in Thailand over royalty story
Ambika Ahuja, Washington Post, March 19, 2010 - No spring break for president
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, March 19, 2010 - The media are flopping at covering race Commentary: Too much hype and too little analysis
Jon Friedman, Marketwatch, March 18, 2010 - Times Online about to preview its paywall content
Stephen Brook, The Guardian, March 18, 2010 - 77% of Canadians Read Dailies, Most Preferring Local News on Paper
Editor & Publisher, March 18, 2010 - Matt Bai Becomes Times (Newspaper) Political Columnist
John Koblin, New York Observer, March 18, 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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Newsroom Development
Training, Strategic Planning, Critical Thinking
You can bring the Committee’s Traveling Curriculum development program to your organization. The Traveling Curriculum offers customizable newsroom workshops that our staff of respected trainers has led in scores of print, broadcast, and online newsrooms of all sizes.
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect 
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