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• ProPublica Is Hiring a Reporter-Blogger

  
  ProPublica: Articles and Investigations — Authority: 682
  by Eric Umansky , ProPublica - ProPublica is looking for a reporter-blogger who will follow up on and synthesize investigative journalism by others. Were looking for a journalist who has a critical eye and a knack for daily writing and reporting. We want an experienced reporter -- you should be able to ...
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• The Trouble With “Drill, Baby, Drill”

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 637
  I’m not looking to host a debate about whether or not the US should do more to encourage drilling here in America. On one side, we have the oilmen, who would look to drill enough holes to turn the entire continent into a block of Jarlsberg cheese.  On the other side, there are the treehuggers who are so ...
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• Stimulus Site Criticism: Legit?

  
  MoJo Articles — Authority: 717
  This story first appeared on the ProPublica website . Stimulus critics were abuzz this week flogging the federal Web site Recovery.gov for flaws in its first big data release. Problems ranged from confusing variation and gaps in job numbers to mistakes that put projects in nonexistent congressional ...
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• California Watch’s revenue model: Charge news outlets, target donors

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 675
  ProPublica invites publishers to “ Steal Our Stories .” John Thornton, founder of The Texas Tribune , asked newspapers to pay for stories, but concluded the effort was hopeless. But another new nonprofit news organization, California Watch , the Sacramento-based reporting initiative to be launched next month by ...
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• Scientia Pro Publica #16: Us, Friends, and Society

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 456
  Welcome to the 16th edition  of Scientia Pro Publica , the blog carnival  that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing published in the blogosphere within the past 60 days. What are some of the fascinating topics you can explore and discuss with this group of bloggers? Science & Us The ...
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• Unwavering commitment to profit

  
  Ms Sparky's Mishaps & Misadventures — Authority: 133
  Please Dispose Of Injured and Abused Employees ProperlyWe honored our veterans and soldiers this week for their service to our country.  The following article was published on Veterans Day with the focus on civilian contractors and the contributions they have made and the struggles they face.Honoring Veterans of ...
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• Jumping the Gunman

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 436
  Image by eschipul via FlickrFrom ProPublica by Stephen Engelberg | November 12, 2009 2:11 pm EST. Republished under Creative Commons license. The recent reporting on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, is a classic run-and-gun investigative story in which dozens of reporters ...
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• What health care reform means for small businesses

  
  theCLog — Authority: 515
  Since Charlotte was recently included on a list of the best cities to start a small business , thought you’d like to know how health care reform will, and won’t, affect the Q.C.’s local business owners. Here’s one story, from ProPublica.org : Using results from a questionnaire we did with American ...
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• Texas Tribune: Looking for its own brand of news

  
  Knight Foundation Blog — Authority: 125
  From Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger: When the  Fort Hood shootings were reported last week, The Texas Tribune stood back while other publications rushed to the scene. The  New York Times  explained that it wasn’t that the incident lacked interest to the journalists at the new web ...
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• Yankees’ Parade – The View From ProPublica

  
  ProPublica: Articles and Investigations — Authority: 682
  by Mike Webb and Dan Nguyen , ProPublica - Today, the New York Yankees celebrated their 27th World Series championship with a parade through the Canyon of Heroes . It just so happens that ProPublica’s offices are located in the heart of the route. Our own Dan Nguyen took some front-row shots.   ...
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• At University of Phoenix, Allegations of Enrollment Abuses Persist

  
  MoJo Articles — Authority: 717
  This story first appeared on the ProPublica website . After federal regulators accused the University of Phoenix of systematic enrollment abuses in 2004, the schools parent company paid out nearly $10 million to resolve the allegations. Phoenix allegedly had broken the law by tying recruiters pay to ...
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• Sesame Street Has Taught Pre-Schoolers Ethics for 40 Years

  
  Ethic Soup — Authority: 121
  Sesame Streets Big Bird is now 40 years old. Who knew? Google knew. In fact, today the Google doodle on the search engines banner is the bottom half of Big Bird -- mostly legs. To mix it up a little, Google had different banner doodles, depending upon the country served. Below is the doodle for Mexico. ...
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• Another Brilliant Coup for Pro Publica: Abuses at University of Phoenix

  
  Media and Mayhem — Authority: 125
  Whether the non-profit model for investigative journalism ultimately catches fire, the best of the current non-profit organizations doing in-depth reporting is Pro-Publica.   I previously called your attention to Pro Publica’s  incredible cooperative reporting effort with the New York Times, written and reported ...
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• Scientia Pro Publica

  
  Observations of a Nerd — Authority: 484
  Science is for the people... so welcome, people, to the newest edition of Scientia Pro Publica! Sit down, buckle up, and get ready to be taken on a wild ride that includes everything from vampires to vegetarians, the dawn of the universe to current affairs, and anything in between! While the ghosts and goblins may ...
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• Newspaper circulation falls again: Expect more cuts

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 601
  If you were a newspaper subscriber last year, there’s a 10 percent chance you aren’t this year. That’s because paid circulation of daily newspapers nationally fell more than 10 percent from a year ago. Some papers suffered truly horrendous daily circulation losses: the San Francisco Chronicle (down 25.8 ...
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• Grading the Public Options That Already Exist

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  Understanding Existing Healthcare PlansBy Sabrina Shankman, www.ProPublica.orgOctober 28, 2009 12:27 pm EDTWhat might a public health option look like in practice? One way to find out is to look at what’s already out there.Link: ...
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• The Future of the Newsroom

  
  The SideTrack — Authority: 125
  Adapt or face extinction? From E & P : Ask Jeff Leen of The Washington Post about the state of investigative reporting at his paper and hell tell you its as strong as ever. Even after more than 100 news staffers — some of them Pulitzer-minted — took buyouts last year, Leen, the papers assistant managing ...
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• Five reasons government shouldn’t subsidize journalism

  
  Pursuing the Complete Community Connection — Authority: 541
  This madness has to stop. Intelligent people have to stop thinking that government funding is the solution to the economic challenges facing newspapers.I love newspapers. I hope they survive and thrive (again) for the rest of my life and beyond. If that delivery system fails, I hope healthy new business and ...
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• Minnesota’s unemployment insurance system $155 million in red

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 665
  Minnesota is among 22 states that have had to borrow money from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits during the ongoing economic crisis. The state’s unemployment insurance system is currently more than $155 million in debt, according to a new report. ProPublica originally reported on the perilous ...
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• Hechinger announces new nonprofit to cover education

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 675
  Looks like someone at Columbia agrees with their colleague Michael Schudson ’s argument that universities should get more involved in creating original journalism. The Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media — which is attached to Columbia’s Teachers College — is announcing today the beginning of ...
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