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One Year, 400 Photos -- An Intern Sees the Big Picture at the White House
By Alissa Irei - Politics DailyLuke Sharrett is just 21, but he's already had hundreds of photographs published in The New York Times. A year ago, Sharrett began what was supposed to be a three-month stint as the Times' White House photojournalism intern. But his bosses were so impressed with the quality of his work -- and his character -- that the internship was extended. Over and over again. Sharrett quickly became just another member of the press corps. He left the White House a couple of weeks ago to return to Western Kentucky University, but not before getting a nod from the leader of the free world, President Obama ...
Congress' Old-Media Habit: $1.2 Million a Month on News and Research
By Ernie Smith - AOL News(July 21) -- One group of people not contributing to the erosion of paid newspaper subscriptions: our duly elected representatives and their staffs. The hundreds of line items for old-media purchases are among the many clues to Congress' news habits that AOL News spotted in its close reading of the House's last three Statement of Disbursements. Collecting all the invoices generated by Congress every three months, it was made available in digital form for the first time in December. Following the most recent update in June, the House's expenditures for the last six months of 2009 and the ...
Jill Lawrence Named Online Columnist of the Year by Society of Professional Journalists
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyI am so proud to report that Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence has been named online columnist of the year by the Society of Professional Journalists, which announced the winners of the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism on Monday. Jill, who luckily for us left USA Today to join Politics Daily's staff shortly before our launch a year ago, was honored for her "Sharp Eye on Washington, [with] Minimum Snark." The winning entry included five columns: Liberals, Get Patriotic and Ditch the Volvo; Obama and Congress Shouldn't Let Polls Guide Health Reform; Why Americans Love to ...
J.D. Salinger: A 'Selfish Old Goat,' but Not a Perv
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAuthor J.D. Salinger, who died in January, is once again in the news, in all his appalling glory. The Morgan Library in Manhattan has put on display Salinger's correspondence with a friend -- Michael Mitchell, the artist who drew the original illustration on Salinger's 1951 novel, "Catcher in the Rye." ...
Success in the City: Dreams Not Wasted on the Young
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyLife unfolds over decades, and along the way we trade our youth for experience, develop perspective where we once only saw possibilities and exhaust our hustle while building our reputations. At the cusp of my seventh decade the things that make my day are more often small victories and avoided calamities rather than red-letter events worthy of multiple exclamation points. My husband, the novelist James Grady, got a big break in his early 20s when a manuscript he submitted by mail (from a list he found in his hometown library in Shelby, Mont.) was accepted by a New York book publisher and ...
Paterson: I Was Source in Times Story About Me
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(March 18) -- When The New York Times reported that New York Gov. David Paterson intervened in a domestic abuse case involving his top aide, Paterson said the story was based on unsourced claims and unnamed sources. Now, the governor says, he was one of those sources. Paterson told a New York radio station today that he was the source who led the Times to write the story that prompted him to drop his election bid and triggered the resignation of five of his staffers amid calls that he do the same. The Times flatly denies the claim. Chris Hondros, Getty Images New York Gov. David Paterson ...
Dwarf Theme Park a Giant Problem for Little People
By David Moye - AOL News(March 9) -- Members of a support group for little people have a giant problem with a theme park in China that puts dwarfs on public display. The park, which is called Kingdom of the Little People, is a $115 million enterprise in southern China's Yunnan Province that features as its top attraction a troupe of dwarfs who perform various skits including a slapstick version of "Swan Lake." The Kingdom is the brainchild of entrepreneur Chen Mingjing, who told The New York Times that he sees the park as a way to help the less fortunate, in this case, the more than 100 dwarfs who he says might ...
N.Y. Gov. David Paterson: Shadowboxing Rumors About . . . Who Knows?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyLike troubled politicians before him, New York Democratic Gov. David Paterson appeared on Larry King's CNN show Thursday night to denounce "salacious and outrageous charges" and to liken his ordeal to a "Kafka-esque situation." Paterson even had to sit there placidly when King (who has been married eight times himself) asked, "Do you have an open marriage?" But what makes Paterson's plight a modern media parable is that he is going up against The New York Times over a story that has never been printed. Welcome to the wacky world of America's most beleaguered sitting governor not named Mark ...
NY Gov. Paterson Faces Frenzy of Rumors
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 10) -- It's like watching a dog chase its tail. New York politicians and reporters are caught up in a dizzying swirl of rumors about what's in a story The New York Times is doing on embattled Gov. David Paterson. There were whispers of a "bombshell" to be dropped Monday -- then delayed until Wednesday -- about a scandal involving sex or drugs or maybe something else that would force Paterson to resign. Nobody really knows because the Times story doesn't exist yet. Even so, with every passing day that the article doesn't appear, the media circus gets a little wackier. The governor's ...
Source Says David Paterson Spoke With Democrats About Possible Resignation
By David Sessions - Politics DailyRumors are flying that New York Gov. David Paterson could be on the brink of resigning, and a source told the Associated Press that Paterson discussed his future -- including the possibility of resignation -- with Democratic leaders. Paterson's election campaign denies that the governor has had any thought of stepping down from the job he assumed after Eliot Spitzer resigned amid scandal in 2008. "This is a new low even by the standards of Planet Albany," spokesman Peter Kauffmann said Sunday. "The circus of the past week entirely fabricated out of thin air and innuendo is an embarrassment for ...
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