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  1. The Right Coast

    “Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating – TK News by Matt Taibbi

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The news business just can t stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating, of all places, at a festival of fact-checking. via taibbi.substack.com

  2. 99 Park Row

    Advocacy in the writing world: getting your stories in front of the right audience

    By Michelle Newblom

    Some of the most-read news stories out there are dominated by inflammatory headlines and are poor examples of journalism done right. But, luckily, clicks don't equal impact. I stumbled upon…

  3. The Right Coast

    What the AP s Collaboration With the Nazis Should Teach Us About Reporting the News – Tablet Magazine

    By Thomas A. Smith

    A paper last year by the German historian Harriet Scharnberg titled The A and P of Propaganda and published in Studies in Contemporary History makes the case that beginning in the…

  4. 99 Park Row

    Times change: Journalists benefit by emulating bloggers and bringing self to story

    By Colin O'Keefe

    There was a time when all a blogger wanted to be was a mainstream journalist. I've been there—way back in my college days I remember walking the floor after Montana…

  5. Business of Law

    Pop the Dom Pérignon, we launched something great today.

    By Greg Storey

    Today at LexBlog, we launched a new publication built with the MVP of a new offering that will come out later this year. The publication is called 99 Park Row,…

  6. The Right Coast

    Federal judge drops a truth bomb: American press is in the tank for Democrats

    By Thomas A. Smith

    D.C. Circuit Court Judge Laurence Silberman is making headlines for his frank assessment of the American press, specifically mentioning The New York Times and The Washington Post. He exploded on…

  7. The Traklight Blog

    Google Reaches Deal With French Publishers Over Copyright Payments

    By Mike Willee

    One of the paramount concerns of our time (among the seemingly dozens of them pressing down upon us at any given moment) is how to contend with the power of…

  8. The Right Coast

    With a Star Science Reporter s Purging, Mob Culture at The New York Times Enters a Strange New Phase Quillette

    By Thomas A. Smith

    The Times management dismissed McNeil because he was caught instructing a student about racism in 2019; and, in so doing, said the N-word as an example of a gravely racist…

  9. Real Lawyers Have Blogs

    Algorithmic Driven Publishing May Not Be Enough for Legal Blog Aggregation and Curation

    By Kevin O'Keefe

    Hearing what Apple CEO, Tim Cook had to say in a recent speech in Brussels marking International Data Privacy Day has me rethinking the delivery of journalism via algorithms -…

  10. The Right Coast

    Glenn Greenwald: Journalists Are Authoritarians Reason.com

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Reason's Nick Gillespie spoke with Greenwald via Zoom in November. The reporter appeared from his home in Brazil, where he lives with his husband, two children, and numerous dogs. Among…