[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 23, 2011.]
Rethinking political fact-checking: PolitiFact, the fact-checking organization launched in 2007 by the St. Petersburg Times,named its lie of the year this week, and the choice wasn’t a popular one: The Democratic claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare was widely denounced among liberal [...]
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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 7, 2011.]
A net neutrality compromise: The Review might have taken two weeks off for the holidays, but the rest of the future-of-news world kept on humming. Consider this more your “Holidays in Review” than your “Week in Review.” Let’s get to it.
The biggest [...]
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—[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 17, 2010.]
The media and WikiLeaks’ uneasy coexistence: The current iteration of the WikiLeaks story is about to move into its fourth week, and it continues to swallow up most future-of-journalism news in its path. By now, it’s branched out into several distinct facets, [...]
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