The big US political blogs — think Politico, Talking Points Memo and RealClearPolitics — already have journalists covering possible candidates for the 2012 presidential election. It’ll be a campaign covered more in-depth than ever before, explains Jeremy Peters.
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Internet hijackers: stealing content and avoiding blame
Why did Time.com and Politico, two well respected news sites, completely violate copyright and publish the infamous Rolling Stone McChrystal profile on their sites?
Politico‘s Mike Allen: The most powerful journalist in DC
The NYT profiles Politico’s Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen, the man whose Playbook drives the nation’s daily political discourse.
HuffPo and Politico prove the net does pay
While many newspapers are struggling, online news organisations HuffPo and Politico are reporting multimillion dollar revenue and new jobs. Can companies like Yahoo learn from them?
Politico elected to the Pulitzer board
The Executive Editor of political commentary site Politico, Jim VandeHei, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize board — the organisation’s first representative from the world of online news.
Inside Palin’s closed-door anti-abortion rally
Sarah Palin banned the media from a recent speech before a right-to-life group, but Politico snuck an operative in. Amongst the usual Bible-bashing and fist-pumping, she also floated an interesting conspiracy theory about the new design of US dollar coins.
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Politico and Wash Post to engage in DC territorial pissing
Online political news site Politico is going to launch a local Washington DC edition of the site, headed up by the former editor of WashingtonPost.com. It’s a pretty direct attack on The Washington Post’s DC supremacy, and HuffPo has its hands on an internal memo that outlines the plans.
Has Politico turned tabloid?
It’s generally regarded to be one of the best and most successful political news sites on the web, but lately Politico has slipped into sensationalism, says Splice Today, with headlines like “Roman Polanski backers gave $34k to Barack Obama”.
The Politico on Charlie Rose
Politico’s editors and publisher pat themselves on the back while discussing the death of newspaper in an interview on Charlie Rose.
What IS Politico?
Politico is one of the most successful political sites on the web and an influential membera of the White House Press Corp. But with an emphasis on generating viral articles and page views, does it really qualify as a news organisation?
The WashPo cash-for-access scandal
The Washington Post has faced massive backlash since Politico revealed the paper was to host an exclusive “salon” where lobbyists and execs could have off-the-record access to “those powerful few” — like Obama officials and the paper’s own reporters and editors.
How Politico conquered Washington
Politico was launched as a short-term project by two print journalists to cover the 2008 presidential campaign — but it continues to prosper and defy all expectations, feeding an audience of six million ‘obsessives and insiders” every day. It is, says Michael Wolff a glimpse at the future of the media.
AOL’s PoliticsDaily quickly overtakes Politico
AOL’s new online news-magazine, PoliticsDaily.com is only a month-and-a-half old, but quickly surpassed rival Politico.com in unique visits for May.
The future of newspapers: GlobalPost
A start-up wire service offering foreign news to cash-strapped US mastheads is another sign that the traditional business model for newspapers is finished, writes Glenn Dyer.
