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How Talking Points Memo Plans to Expand its Staff, Open Bureau in DC

Zachary M. Seward — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:00:59 +0000

By Zachary M. Seward, Assistant Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab

“TPM started literally out of nothing,” Josh Marshall, the founder and editor of Talking Points Memo, was telling me by phone this week from the site’s new loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Frightful Kindle

Josh Marshall — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:02:02 +0000

By Josh Marshall, Editor and Publisher, Talking Points Memo

Until quite recently, I’d seen a Kindle only once. It was at a friend’s house, only for a moment, and my general impression was that it was clunky and only borderline readable. But I’m very partial to my iPhone. So a few weeks ago in my never-ending quest to find iPhone “apps” I might actually use, I noticed that Kindle, or rather the Kindle software, was now available for iPhone. So I promptly downloaded it and bought my first book.

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Justice Department's Idiotic Shunning of Online Journalism Organization

Dan Gillmor — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:05:58 +0000

By Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall reports that he’s been “Banned at the DoJ”–taken off the email distribution list for press releases and the like. This has to be one of the more lame governmental PR decisions of the recent past.

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