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WASHINGTON - Judith Miller's boss says the New York Times reporter appears to have misled the newspaper about her role in the CIA leak controversy. In an e-mail memo Friday to the newspaper's staff, Executive Editor Bill Keller said that until Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald subpoenaed Miller in the criminal probe, "I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end" of leaks aimed at Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson. "Judy seems to have misled" Times Washington bureau chief Bill Taubman about the extent of her involvement, Keller wrote. Taubman asked Miller in the fall...

This is for any of you Freepers who have published books. I am done with the first 400 of hopefully 500+ pages of a novel. I'm wondering if I really do need an editor to get the thing published. I talked to a local person who advertises as an editor and she quoted me a rate of $3.00-$5.00 PER PAGE! Is that normal? Reasonable? All I think I need is someone to tell me if it is in the right format to submit to a publisher; does that really cost $1200-2000? I have had several friends read it over for...

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that he thought Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, would be her party's presidential nominee in 2008 and that she would be "very formidable." He said she might even win. Mr. Gingrich, a Republican, was addressing the American Society of Newspaper Editors here and was asked if he might challenge her for president in 2008. He did not answer that question, but it was clear he had been watching her. "Senator Clinton is very competent, very professional, very intelligently moving toward the center, very shrewdly and effectively serving on the Armed Services...

In yesterday's (March 27) Los Angeles Times, media reporter and critic David Shaw demonstrates Oscar Wilde's maxim that modern journalism is important—if only because it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Giving every indication that he's read a lot of stories about bloggers but not that many actual blogs, Shaw disparages the form as the error-filled rants of amateurs in his piece, "Do Bloggers Deserve Basic Journalistic Protections?" It's a "solipsistic, self-aggrandizing journalist-wannabe genre," Shaw writes. Without naming a specific offender—except Matt Drudge, who he acknowledges really isn't a blogger—Shaw generalizes about bloggers for 1,300 gassy...

The New York Times scooped the Philadelphia Inquirer on a story of which even Inky Executive Editor, Amanda Bennett, was aware. Ye gawds, Ms. Bennett was an important part of the story. The Times found it interesting that the left-wing, liberal paper had its senior editors calling former subscribers who cancelled after the bright lights at the paper decided to run a series of 21 straight "vote for John F. Kerry" editorials.The Times quoted Ms. Bennett as saying, "If the people I call say, 'Yes, I was mad at your editorial,' then the next thing I say is, 'Would you...

Our Newspapers Fail Us Editorial - Israel News Agency There is no public relations or public affairs without a carrier. The most established carrier is called a newspaper. And in Israel the only newspapers which enjoy abundant readership and wealth are the Hebrew dailies – Yediot, Maariv and Haaertz. As for the English newspapers here in Israel – one is a mere translation of the Hebrew edition and the other is fifty percent wire service copy. Yes – there are some brilliant writers on these papers but their voices become deluded when you have a lack of proper leadership integrated...

Our Newspapers Fail Us Editorial - Israel News Agency There is no public relations or public affairs without a carrier. The most established carrier is called a newspaper. And in Israel the only newspapers which enjoy abundant readership and wealth are the Hebrew dailies – Yediot, Maariv and Haaertz. As for the English newspapers here in Israel – one is a mere translation of the Hebrew edition and the other is fifty percent wire service copy. Yes – there are some brilliant writers on these papers but their voices become deluded when you have a lack of proper leadership integrated...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - California newspapers devoted considerable resources to the war in Iraq, sending reporters and photographers into harm's way and trying to provide balanced, accurate and comprehensive coverage of battlefield and homefront developments. But even some of the largest newspapers struggled to make sense of rapidly changing events and conflicting information, their editors acknowledged Saturday during the Associated Press News Executives Council's annual meeting. "I don't think any of us were prepared to handle the deluge of fragmentary images that dominated the first two days," said David Yarnold, editor of the San Jose Mercury News. Yarnold also...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/> May 11, 2003 Witnesses and Documents Unveil Deceptions in a Reporter's WorkBy THE NEW YORK TIMES ollowing is an accounting of the articles in which falsification, plagiarism and similar problems were discovered in a review of articles written by Jayson Blair, a reporter for The New York Times who resigned May 1. The review, conducted by a team of Times reporters and researchers, concentrated on the 73 articles Mr. Blair wrote since late October, when he was given roving national assignments and began covering major news events including the Washington-area sniper attacks and...

Don't bury your life in just the factsLast Updated: July 19, 2002At LargeBill JanzE-MAIL | ARCHIVE The New Yorker is my favorite magazine, although it is not as good as it used to be. I'm not either, so I understand. Age gives us experience but it's tough on the legs.The New Yorker recently ran an article on obituary writers, who, for grieving families, are the most important people on a newspaper but, for years, they had the status of least important. Reporters are entrusted with news events, but obituary writers are entrusted with lives.Amy Rabideau Silvers does remarkable work for...