By Project for Excellence in Journalism
Barack Obama's efforts to heal the wounds of the primary battle and to reconcile with the Clintons were the major story lines in last week's coverage of the Presidential campaign.
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By J.D. Lasica, MediaShift
Efforts like Spot.us, where citizens fund stories at the community level, are important experiments that bear watching -- and, more importantly, sustained support |
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By Jillian York, GlobalVoices
The first day of the Global Voices 2008 Summit in Budapest, Hungary was a wild success. |
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By Asaf Carmel, Haaretz
Haaretz journalist Yossi Melman received an award from the Investigative Reporters and Editors association (IRE), for his report on a Palestinian-Jordanian who was held illegally by American, Israeli and Jordanian security services. |
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By The Moscow Times
The publisher of the muckraking weekly magazine The New Times has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to grant Russian citizenship to journalist Natalya Morar, a Moldovan national barred from entering Russia. |
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By AFP
Israeli startup PopTok on Monday began inviting people to test a free service that weaves snippets from memorable films or hot music videos into instant messages and email |
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By Victoria Coliver, San Francisco Chronicle
CBS Corp. completed its $1.8 billion purchase of San Francisco's Cnet Networks Inc. on Monday in a deal that makes CBS one of the top 10 largest Web properties. |
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By Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release of freelance journalist Ahmed al-Majun, president of the local branch of the Iraq journalists' union in Tikrit. |
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By Zachary Roth, CJR
What Wesley Clark really said; how the press missed it |
Al Jazeera's Ghida Fakhry talks to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about his latest article in New Yorker magazine, claiming that US congressional leaders have agreed to a presidential request for up to $400 million in funding for covert operations against Iran.
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