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NY TIMES News, Jan 13, 2012

Bloomberg View Expands Editorial Board
Bloomberg
Katy Roberts was commentary editor at NYTimes.com, where she launched the Room for Debate discussion site and held a number of roles including national editor, editor of the Week in Review section and editor of the Op-Ed page. James Gibney was features ...
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NY Times Asks: Hey, Should We Report The Truth?
Gothamist
NY Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane posed an interesting question in his column today: should the Gray Lady point out when politicians and other officials are clearly lying to us? To figure out whether the "newspaper of record" should report ...
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Gothamist
Teaching Dickens With The New York Times
New York Times (blog)
How would you apply the word today? What, whether you find it in the pages of The New York Times or somewhere in your own community, strikes you as truly Dickensian? Why? How well does Dickens hold up 200 years later? How would you interest readers...
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New York Times (blog)
Praise and Contempt for Bloomberg's Proposals
New York Times
In the news on Friday, The New York Times said Mr. Bloomberg doubled down on his controversial education policies. The Daily News called the speech “groundbreaking.” The New York Post declared, “It's war.” Mayor Bloomberg is attempting to breathe new ...
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Daily Report: New Storage Device Is Very Small, at 12 Atoms
New York Times (blog)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES | January 13, 2012, 7:43 am John Markoff, a technology reporter at The New York Times, reports on the implications of researchers at IBM having stored and retrieved digital information from an array of just 12 atoms. ...
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New York Times (blog)
New Days to Shake the World
New York Times
... with Putin and Medvedev as the doomed lovers — and Russia in the role of the sinking ship. 1 2 Next Page » A national security correspondent for The New York Times and the author of “Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union.”
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New York Times
Jodi Kantor Talks About White House Blowback on Her Book, The Obamas
New York Magazine (blog)
By Noreen Malone This week, Brooklyn-based New York Timescorrespondent Jodi Kantor published The Obamas, a chronicle of the first couple in the White House. Before most of the political world had even read the book, which was strictly embargoed until...
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New York Magazine (blog)
Self-service, online options driving customers to avoid salespeople
Retail Customer Experience
It's no big shock that many shoppers don't like to be continually asked if they need assistance from store associates, but an article in today's NY Timespointed out some consumers specifically shop online to avoid employees. ...
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As the Directors Make Their Documentary Picks, New Oscar Rules Take Effect
New York Times (blog)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES The Academy's Board of Governors made it official today: to qualify for the documentary feature Oscar, a film must be reviewed in The New York Times and/or The Los Angeles Times, in addition to the previously required weeklong run ...
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Roy Ash, Powerful Budget Director for Nixon, Dies at 93
New York Times
He had “become a surrogate president, administering the Nixon policies,” the White House correspondent John Herbers wrote in The New York TimesMagazine in 1974. Earlier, as a private citizen, Mr. Ash headed a commission appointed by Nixon to recommend ...
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Despite what you think there are straight males blogging about fashion.
scallywagandvagabond
Considering the avalanche of style experts/bloggers in the fashion industry being chiefly female or gay (so I have been told) the NY Times has bravely come out today to assert that in fact there are straight male bloggers in the fashion world. ...
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Pushing the boundaries of nanotechnology
Bend Bulletin
By John Markoff / New York Times News Service Most magnetic storage systems require 1 million atoms to store basic digital information, but IBM researchers created a usable unit that's just 12 atoms thick. Researchers at IBM have stored and retrieved ...
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It's Nicki Minaj's world, and she wants more - The News & Observer
San Francisco Luxury News
What's going on in the world of Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Rihanna, or Britney Spears today? Well, here is an interesting news item we saw. Check it out. BY LAURA M. HOLSON – New York Times BY LAURA M. HOLSON Perhaps it was the brightly colored ...
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The China Illusion
FrontPage Magazine
The NY Times oped pages headline writers helped generate the proper spin for this pernicious ploy: “To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan.” The story by Paul V. Kane, a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war and former international security fellow at the ...
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FrontPage Magazine
More say they heard Mott confess
Albany Times Union
The case is being heard in Rensselear County Courthouse in Troy, NY startingtoday Jan. 11, 2012 (Skip Dickstein / Times Union) Defense attorney Brian Donohue gives his opening statement to the jury in the George Mott II murder trial in Rensselaer ...
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'One Life to Live' takes its last breath today
Indianapolis Star
... NY, when she got the role in 1971, took one last curtain call Thursday at a tribute to the show on "The View," which airs today. And in an interview in her dressing room before the taping, she teared up a few times as she talked about leaving ...
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Brought to Us by the BQE
New York Times
There had been talk since the early 20th century of creating a bluff-top or bluff-side park with views of New York Bay. For instance, in 1903 The New York Times reported on a $1 million proposal for “hanging gardens” behind the houses on the bluff, ...
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New York Times
City Renews Push To Develop Abandoned Kingsbridge Armory
Gothamist
Today, Mayor Bloomberg will announce that the city will be accepting new RFPs to develop the long-abandoned site in his State of the City address (today at 1 pm). According to the NY Times, the opponents from the 2009 attempt are on board, ...
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Gothamist
The Return of Tony Melillo's T's
New York Times (blog)
By ERIC WILSON Deidre Schoo for The New York TimesAnthony Thomas Melillo with looks from his collection. Longtime devotees of the sportswear designer Tony Melillo will be pleased to learn that, after roughly a three-year absence, his precision-cut ...
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New York Times (blog)
In the Clearing Stands a Boxer: One Man's Fight Against Fracking
truthout
(Photo: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times) There is a natural prejudice against fasting as part of a political struggle. It is considered a vulgar interpolation in politics by the ordinary politician, though it has always been resorted to by ...
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truthout
Fashion & Finance: Sales, steals & deals in the new year
Accounting Today (blog)
Most importantly, everything you see on this section of the website is on sale! http://www.neimanmarcus.com/fb_lastcall Bloomingdales: Home sale starts today… just in time for those new goals, revamps and must-have essentials. ...
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Accounting Today (blog)
Letter to Friends and Neighbors
truthout
“While the existence of the toxic wastes has been reported, thousands of internal documents obtained by The New York Times from the Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators and drillers show that the dangers to the environment and health are ...
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Eight Men In: Vintage 2008
New York Times (blog)
Fifty years ago, if the Giants were headed to Green Bay to play the Packers in the postseason, fans in New York might have considered themselves lucky to catch the game on television.Today, with tickets available online and frequent-flier miles ...
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New York Times (blog)
NYT: Judith Clark and the Brink's Robbery
NyackNewsAndViews
Three decades have passed, but for many of the families who lost loved ones, it's still a wound that time cannot completely heal. The New York Timesexamines one of the perpetrators of that crime, Judith Clarke, in a story by investigative reporter Tom ...
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An Illinois Constitutional Amendment on Ethics — Maybe the Best, Last Resort
ChicagoNow (blog)
"Not for nothing" to quote Tony, but it made the NY Times too. In this investigative report, it clearly lays out the relationship and the stunning conflict of interest between Senator Mike Jacobs and his father and current lobbyist, former Senator ...
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Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar » Today's quotes
By Rich Miller
Today's quotes. Friday, Jan 13, 2012. * From New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane… I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they ...
Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois...
It Takes a Village Idiot | NYTimes eXaminer
By marieburns
We can stipulate that Arthur Brisbane, the New York Times public editor, is a clueless naif. No one today would disagree with that, and many have said much worse. For a man who has been in the newspaper business for 35 years and whose ...
NYTimes eXaminer
Americans are afraid to take vacations — RT
By RT
The White House's would-be success overthe unemployment epidemic came crashing today with the announcement that jobless benefit claims went up for the first time in six weeks. ... The New York Times boasts all the news that's fit to print, but reporters at the iconic outlet are saying that the high-ups at the paper could stand to squeeze a lot more into something else: their benefit packages. US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet trick or treaters at the North ...
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New York Times Asks Whether Truthtelling Should be Part of ...
By Taylor Marsh
I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times newsreporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. – Should The Times Be ... ... Please donate today ...
Taylor Marsh
New York Times | Truth Vigilantes | Mediaite
By Nando Di Fino
On Thursday, Arthur S. Brisbane, the public editor of the New York Times, posed an interesting thought. “I'm looking for reader input,” Brisbane writes, “on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge 'facts' that are ...
Mediaite
slacktivist » Broken news: The New York Times pulls a Brisbane
By Fred Clark
I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times newsreporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. OK, Brisbane .... Newspapers today are run by terrified beancounters. The industry ...
slacktivist
Daily Kos: New York Times asks readers: Should reporters report ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Hunter)
I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times newsreporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. He goes on to explain that an opinion columnist, like Paul Krugman, clearly has the ...
Daily Kos
So whaddaya think: should we put truthtelling back up there at ...
By Jay Rosen
Brisbane's post, Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante? exploded onto the web today, startling user after user, and journalist after journalist, all of whom reacted with some version of: Why is this even a question? Alright, I'll tell you why. Brisbane wrote: “I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge 'facts' that are asserted by newsmakers they write about.” For example: On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney often says President ...
Pressthink
News Quiz | Jan. 13, 2012 - NYTimes.com
By By TIFFANY FRASIER
See what you know about the news of the day. ... The Learning Network - Teaching and Learning With The New York Times ... See what you know about the news below. To prepare, you might scan the articles or summaries intoday's paper. ...
The Learning Network
I want a newspaper that can call a lie a lie | Just Well Mixed
By Jason Lefkowitz
The New York Times' ombudsman, Arthur S. Brisbane, asks today whether the paper should act as a “truth vigilante”: I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted ...
Just Well Mixed
6 Q's About the News | 'Today We Eat. Tomorrow We Don't ...
What is the practice known as delestage, or "power cut"?
learning.blogs.nytimes.com/.../today-we-eat-tomorrow-we-do...
Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante? | The Public Editor ...
I'm looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times newsreporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. ...
publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/.../should-the-times-be-a-truth...
New York Times bestselling author coming to ... - Shore News Today
Rickards to talk about global economy related topics CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE – When James Rickards spent time at the Cape May beach and his home in ...
www.shorenewstoday.com/.../19833-new-york-times-bestselli...
Today's Scuttlebot: Statistics Quants and Some Frisky Books ...
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web each ... THE ATLANTIC | Wherein the author argues that if you ignore the newsfrom the ... Danny Sullivan: “Today's change is one of the few times where I'm thinking, ...
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/.../todays-scuttlebot-statistics-quants-an...
My Grandmother's New York Times Newspaper After The Titanic ...
... by Android. wpid 1580383 460s 1 My Grandmothers New York TimesNewspaper After The Titanic Sank ... Trending Today On Facebook & Twitter: To All You ...
www.traemcneely.com/.../my-grandmothers-new-york-times-n...
New York Times employees revolt — RT
The New York Times boasts all the news that's fit to print, but reporters at the iconic ... protesters upset with the corpocracy governing the United Statestoday. ...
rt.com/usa/news/times-york-baker-robinson-495/
So much for the penny press « BuzzMachine
So, in inflation-adjusted current pennies, The New York Times today costs 10 times more than a newspaper in 1890. Granted, Today's Times is better than a ...
www.buzzmachine.com/2012/.../so-much-for-the-penny-press...
Fed Gives $77 Billion in Profits to Treasury Department – New York ...
FRANCE 24Fed Gives $77 Billion in Profits to Treasury DepartmentNew York TimesWASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that it contributed ...
www.financialnewstoday.org/.../fed-gives-77-billion-in-profits...
USA TODAY App Now Available for Kindle Fire - New York Times
The app provides eye catching photos while delivering the latest award-winning USA TODAY news in a convenient interactive package designed to take ...
markets.on.nytimes.com/.../press_release.asp?...
The New York Times Student Journalism Institute Announces 2012 ...
The New York Times Student Journalism Institute today announced the ...managing breaking news and meeting deadlines right alongside full-time staffers ." ...
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