Columbia Journalism Review

... Tom Glaisyer, a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation, for example, envisions the emergence of a connected world of public service publishing based around libraries, community groups, and journalism schools, many of whom are already active participants in publishing to local communities. Such a vision relies on the idea that the majority of newsgathering will fall to more dispersed sources, some of them professional journalists and many of them not. ...

... President Barack Obama has authorized 193 drone strikes in Pakistan since he took office in 2009, more than four times the number of attacks that President George W. Bush authorized during his two terms, according to the New America Foundation, a Washington-based public-policy institute. ...

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... The Darfur lobby was born, as Rebecca Hamilton recounts in Fighting for Darfur, a history of American policy on Darfur between 2003-2010 and the mass movement that sought to direct it. Hamilton, a Harvard-trained lawyer and current Sudan correspondent for The Washington Post, knows the movement well because she was once among its leaders. ...

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Steven Waldman
Future of Media Project
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554

Dear Steve,

Elisabeth Sifton praises Steve Coll's book Ghost Wars, along with other books that helped stir public debate about America being at war.

Early on the morning of June 14, 2001, I was about to go live on the Today show to discuss my book on the fen-phen scandal when the host, Maria Shriver, leaned forward and very kindly said, "I'm really sorry about the way we're doing this interview and the questions I have to ask. You understand, don't you?"