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Monday, November 17, 2008 5:12 AM

Life and Death of a GOP Genius

Before there was Karl Rove, his mentor Lee Atwater was the top Republican strategist in the land. In "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story," producer Stefan Forbes documents Atwater's rise as a brilliant, charming and sometimes vicious strategist
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:47 AM

20 Top Crime Stories

We’ve seen some amazing crime stories on News Gems lately. These Top Twenty from the past six months range from the jungles of Africa to a small town in Tennessee. Some are groundbreaking exposés while others tell stories from the perspectives of frightened
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Friday, September 26, 2008 6:38 AM

Twittering Ike

While the financial storm on Wall Street dominates the headlines, residents along the Gulf Coast in Texas are still struggling through the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. The reporters there who continue to produce great stories while working and living
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Friday, August 29, 2008 5:51 AM

The Courageous Kid

It's not often that we feature stories about funerals on News Gems, but Mike White's "Funeral for a Teen Whose Bravery Touched So Many" in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette grabbed my heart. White does an amazing job of using simple words to richly describe the
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:22 AM

The Big Collapse

I've seen two excellent and innovative Web packages commemorating the first anniversary of the terrible bridge collapse in the Twin Cities. The StarTribune.com's "13 Seconds in August" features an aerial shot of the bridge taken soon after the
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:52 AM

Government Screw-Ups

I've seen a couple of great examples recently of television networks serving as watchdogs when the government acts with complete insensitivity toward some of its most vulnerable citizens. Brian Ross and Vic Walter of ABC News, in conjunction with Audrey
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:21 AM

Smugglers and Guards

As investigative reporting budgets shrink while multimedia storytelling expands, I wonder if we'll see more joint efforts like the one between PBS' Frontline World and The New York Times that ran yesterday. "Mexico: Crimes at the Border" by Lowell
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Monday, May 19, 2008 6:07 AM

Hidden Cameras

The use of hidden cameras for investigative reporting fell after ABC got smacked with a $2.47 billion lawsuit because it ran an undercover story in 1992 about the Food Lion grocery chain (an appeals court later reduced the award for damages to $2).
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:31 PM

Storm Damage

It's a reporter's nightmare: trying to cover a devastating natural disaster in a country controlled by a paranoid military junta. The news out of Burma this week has been spotty after a cyclone killed tens of thousands of people or perhaps more than 100,000 --
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Monday, May 05, 2008 10:45 PM

Primary Politics

For depth of political coverage, it's hard to beat The Politico and politico.com. Since editors John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei launched the upstart Web site last year, it has quickly ramped up the quality and thoroughness of its coverage. For an
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:34 PM

Flames on Planes

Reporter Phil Williams of WTVF Channel 5 in Nashville used the Freedom of Information Act to do an investigative story of national significance. Williams obtain Federal Aviation Administration videos and reports indicating that two kinds of wiring commonly
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Friday, April 18, 2008 8:00 AM

Wartime Perspectives

For a daily dose of hard-nosed reporting on the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the troops who've served there, check out the Military Times and its kin at the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy Times.
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Monday, April 07, 2008 8:30 AM

Autism Alert

CNN and its partners at Time and Parenting magazines have put together an impressive package on autism. "Autism: Unravelling the Mystery" features more than two dozen print stories and videos along with an audio slideshow. Some of the highlights
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:00 AM

Bad Care for Soldiers, Flight School for Terrorists?

I'm finally catching up to a couple of excellent network news investigations. In "A Question of Care: Military Malpractice?" Byron Pitts of CBS News explores accusations that military doctors frequently misdiagnose the illnesses of American troops. Pitts
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Monday, March 17, 2008 8:30 AM

Small Town Lives

Boyd Huppert of KARE 11 News in Minneapolis has crafted a wonderful series about opportunities and tribulations in rural America. His "Four Corners" project takes us to the Grand Portage Reservation and the towns of Northcote, Luverne and Caledonia in
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