Tuesday, February 19, 2008

George Polk Award Winners include Josh Marshall of TPM

This is from editor and publisher.com but I like Steve Yelvington's take on the issue of blogger vs. reporter. I got the tip about what Steve wrote via my Twitter client, snitter, as an interesting side note. Those 140 character "tweets" are especially useful in snitter because it performs a "tinyurl" target="_blank"  action for links you want to put into a tweet.


Joshua M. Marshall, editor and publisher of Talking Points Memo, who wins The Polk Award for Legal Reporting.
"His site, www.talkingpointsmemo.com, led the news media coverage of the politically motivated dismissals of United States attorneys across the country. Noting a similarity between firings in Arkansas and California, Marshall (with staff reporter-bloggers Paul Kiel and Justin Rood) connected the dots and found a pattern of federal prosecutors being forced from office for failing to do the Bush Administration's bidding."


Source: editorandpublisher.com



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