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• What health care reform means for small businesses

  
  theCLog — Authority: 489
  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: 122
  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: 646
  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.   ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• Sesame Street Has Taught Pre-Schoolers Ethics for 40 Years

  
  Ethic Soup — Authority: 119
  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. ...
  6 days ago

• Another Brilliant Coup for Pro Publica: Abuses at University of Phoenix

  
  Media and Mayhem — Authority: 122
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Scientia Pro Publica

  
  Observations of a Nerd — Authority: 519
  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: 587
  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: 119
  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: 420
  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: 681
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hechinger announces new nonprofit to cover education

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 734
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scientia Pro Publica #14 is up at Genetic Inference

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 543
  This blog carnival collects together the best non-technical science writing that has appeared around the blogosphere in the last few months, to promote and celebrate science, nature or medicine blogs written for the public. In this edition, we have a glut of posts related to climate change, and an equally large group ...
  2 weeks ago

• Specter of MRI Disease Haunts GE

  
  MoJo Articles — Authority: 717
  This story first appeared on the ProPublica website . In May 2006, medical regulators in Denmark issued a warning that signaled trouble for General Electric. Danish researchers noted that, over a four-year period, 25 patients in Denmark and Austria had suffered a rare and crippling disease after undergoing an ...
  3 weeks ago

• ProPublica: Two-Years-Old—and More Than 100 Stories Partnered

  
  ProPublica: Articles and Investigations — Authority: 646
  by Mike Webb , ProPublica - Two years ago today, the formation of ProPublica was announced in The New York Times . Since then, we’ve published more than 100 partnered investigations, posted hundreds of pieces on our Web site and created tools for other journalists to use (such as ChangeTracker , our ...
  3 weeks ago

• ProPublica fundraising adviser manages expectations

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 734
  You might expect the fundraising consultant just hired by ProPublica to be optimistic, if not ebullient, about prospects for a tech-savvy, grassroots campaign to help sustain the nonprofit financially for the long haul. But Madeline Stanionis , CEO of Watershed Co. , pronounces herself “skeptical.” “I’ve ...
  3 weeks ago

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