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• Are news nonprofits doomed to reliance on big gifts? A study in fundraising — and sustainability

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 644
  I’ve been studying journalism nonprofits one way or another for about five years now, and I confess that in all that time, I’ve looked at their business models really as being slightly different iterations of the same species. But now, I’m not so sure. As part of my graduate studies in nonprofit management at ...
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• Mother Jones CopenPrimer

  
  DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — Authority: 695
  MJones image.jpg Anyone looking to understand the intricacies and implications of the Copenhagen climate summit would be well advised to start with David Corns introduction on MotherJones.com . These meetings are generally filled with two kinds of people: 1. professional bureaucrats and NGO ...
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• Kerry, Lieberman, Graham: Climate Bill Will Include Nuclear Incentives

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 142
  Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham are holding a press call right now to discuss their tri-partisan effort to build support for a Senate climate bill. During the call, which AP_ClimatePool is live tweeting, the senators said that the bill will include incentives for building nuclear power ...
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• Obama Endorses Problematic Avoided Deforestation

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 137
  About a week before President Obama is scheduled to attend the climate conference in Copenhagen , hes already making some discouraging statements about climate change mitigation strategies. The Guardian reports that after receiving his Nobel Peace Price this morning, Obama said that avoided deforestation ...
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• Nuclear Energys Bad Bet

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 137
  Well this was predictable. This Monday, Unistar Nuclear Energy, the Maryland-based nuclear company, asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend its application to build a new power plant on New Yorks Nine Mile Island. A spokesman for Unistar said that the project could not proceed without adequate federal ...
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• News From Mother Jones: Poor Countries Reject a "Suicide Pact"

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 147
  It’s been a busy first few days of the Copenhagen climate talks for Mother Jones and our coconspirators . The big news so far: The world’s poorest countries–a bloc known as the Group of 77, or G77–refuse to be steamrolled by rich nations hoping for soft emissions targets. On Tuesday, an early draft of the ...
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• Copenhagen’s Gargantuan Carbon Footprint? It’s Up in Smoke

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 147
  Graph from Power & Energy . OK, it’s a lot of carbon. 41,000 tons of carbon equivalent is estimated to be Copenhagen’s big footprint after the COP-15 two weeks of talks. See that small, insignificant seeming white dot carved into the big black moon? That’s what it would be if we all weren’t in Copenhagen. ...
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• In Iraq, Gear Gets Left Behind

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 142
  Ernesto Londoño’s article in the Washington Post yesterday details a controversy over military gear worth tens of millions of dollars being donated to the Iraqi government. Cue arguments in the Pentagon: One military official thinks this fails to account for the need for similar items in Afghanistan, while the ...
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• A very literary, beefed-up newspaper is selling for $16

  
  The Editors' Desk — Authority: 652
  The San Francisco Panorama, a one-time-only, Sunday-style newspaper, went on sale today. It costs $16 online and in book stores. People in the Bay area can buy it for $5 at newsstands, but availability there is limited. The New York Times describes it : The…
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• Announcing Our Participation in the Copenhagen News Collaborative

  
  The Intersection — Authority: 654
  As events begin in Denmark, the Intersection is joining journalists from Mother Jones , Grist , The Nation, Treehugger.com, and numerous other outlets to pool together our blogging and reporting resources into the Copenhagen News Collaborative . If you peer over at the new widget added to our sidebar just below ...
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• Dirty Dozen: They Want to Kill Your Grandchildren

  
  Blue Ridge Data — Authority: 111
  As the world gathers in Copenhagen for a summit to address Climate Change, COP15 , fossil fuel industry operatives are shifting into over-drive in their escalation of climate change denialism. Apparently, a well-coordinated and well-funded, political espionage program successfully hacked into the computer ...
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• Copenhagen: Time To Get Over Ourselves

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 142
  A few hours ago, the United Nations agency that is organizing the Copenhagen climate conference sent out a beleaguered-sounding email saying that the conference venue fits 15,000, but 34,000 people--delegates from around the world, journalists, NGO representatives--are trying to attend, so theyre implementing a ...
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• UN Targets Chinas Wind Farms

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 137
  The Clean Development Mechanism , a UN body which helps industrial countries like China cut emissions by paying undeveloped countries to cut their emissions instead, has saved the Chinese government millions of dollars. But many environmentalists worry that China’s renewable energy projects , particularly its ...
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• The Long War on Terror: Obama Administration Plays Politics with Guantanamo

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 593
  This article from Nick Baumann at Mother Jones is filled with political-insider information, but I think it is a significant marker of how the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has moved from an Obama pledge in January 2009 to a site for internal Administration struggle in November. I learned ...
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• Mother Jones Speaks Out for Convicted Caricaturist

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 421
  Mother Jones spoke last night at a meeting at the Berkeley Theatre to protest the sentencing of Carlo de Fornaro to one years hard labor after conviction on a charge of libel for caricaturing a Mexican editor and politician, Rafael Reyes Espindola, in his book published last year.
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• Inside a Prison Outside the Law

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 136
  Mother Jones {MoJo} Drumbeat brings the link to the site for the book The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the LawRead exclusive excerpts from narratives by the attorneys who have represented Guantanamo Detainees, at above linkAbout The Guantanamo LawyersThis new book contains over 100 personal narratives ...
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• Troops called out in Bloomington Normal Illinois, Mother Jones appears!!!

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 140
  Troops called out in Bloomington Normal Illinois Mother Jones appears!!! Mother Jones played key role in 1917 streetcar strike Pantagraph.com: May 12, 2007 By Bill Steinbacher-Kemp Archivist/Librarian, McLean County Museum of History BLOOMINGTON — Mother Jones , the ...
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• Escolars Sushi Swindle

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 137
  If youre not a foodie, eating raw fish seems like a risky endeavor even when its labeled properly. But researchers from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History found this week that high-profile sushi restaurants have substituted tuna with escolar , a fatty bottom feeder that can cause diarrhea ...
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• Taylor Swift Dominates The American Music Awards…And The News Cycle

  
  The 9513 — Authority: 500
  Taylor Swift swept last night’s American Music Awards, beating out Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Eminem and Kings of Leon to claim the title of Artist of The Year. Swift also took home Favorite Pop/Rock Female, Favorite Country Female, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist and Favorite Country Music Album. Taylor Swift, ...
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• Mother Jones Exposes Tea Party Front Group AAPS

  
  Plunderbund — Authority: 586
  The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Sounds official, right? Most whack front groups do. Mother Jones does a great job of exposing these fools for what they are:Yet despite the lab coats and the official-sounding name, the docs of the AAPS are hardly part of mainstream medical society. Think Glenn ...
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