Dec 10 On Thursday's NewsHour... By Simon Marks Coming up on the PBS NewsHour tonight: PEACE PRIZE: We'll have full coverage of President Obama's acceptance speech at the Nobel ceremony in Oslo, Norway today. We'll follow that by a discussion about the speech, and some perspective on… Continue reading
Dec 10 Stopping the Presses: Venerable Media-Watcher E&P to Cease Publication By Mike Melia After more than a century of covering the journalism industry, Editor & Publisher magazine is stopping its presses. The chronicler of newspapers and journalism reported today that its print and online are both shutting down. Its parent company, Nielsen… Continue reading
Dec 10 Ray Suarez: What the Recession Looks like in 'Boom Town' of Eagle, Colo. By Ray Suarez Eagle, Colo. | Next in our Patchwork Nation series, we set off for a "Boom Town." Eagle County had doubled in population since the early years of the decade, and was set to double again quickly. Fueled by income… Continue reading
Dec 10 Geithner: Hasty Exit From TARP Could Prolong Downturn Testifying before an oversight panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Thursday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that the U.S. economy is much improved, but struggling against "headwinds" like high unemployment and foreclosure rates. As a result, he argued, the… Continue reading
Dec 10 Judy Woodruff: China Could Make or Break Copenhagen The reporting I've done in the past few days on the Copenhagen summit tells me we may discover one more piece of evidence, as if we needed it, of China's growing global influence. A senior U.S. official at the… Continue reading
Dec 10 Thursday's Headlines: Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize, Defends U.S. Wars By alozano --President Barack Obama holds his Nobel Peace Prize next to Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, during a ceremony Thursday in Oslo. (Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images.) President Barack Obama traveled to Oslo Thursday to accept his Nobel… Continue reading
Dec 10 Recovery Act Spending Near You By Chris Amico Thanks to our friends at ProPublica, county-by-county spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka "the Stimulus") is now mapped in our Patchwork Nation project. Some of these data come from… Continue reading
Dec 10 Obama Defends Afghan War in Peace Prize Acceptance Speech By Larisa Epatko President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel peace prize Thursday in Norway, saying compared to past recipients "my accomplishments are slight," and acknowledging he leads a nation in the middle of two wars. Continue reading
Dec 10 Patchwork Nation: In One Boom Town, 'Simple Supper' Offers Community Relief By Online DA As the recession has dragged on in Eagle, Colo., a church dinner has provided relief to dozens of local residents hard hit by the economy's slide. Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch McChrystal: Afghan Corruption Must be 'Wiped Away' In an excerpt from a conversation with Charlie Rose, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, says ultimate success in the war will depend on the confidence of the Afghan people in their own government. Continue watching