Items by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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The Choice: How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study?
Posted: January 17th, 2011, 11:59pm EST by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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A new book, and study, seek to take the measure of whether students generally increase their critical-thinking and writing skills once in college.
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The Choice: Facebook Freshman Groups Change
Posted: December 8th, 2010, 7:37pm EST by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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The founder of a Web site that seeks to match roommates, for a fee, makes good on a pledge of transparency in its marketing efforts.
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Pulling an All-Nighter for the College Application
Posted: August 11th, 2010, 2:05am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Deans of admission are sounding a cautionary note: a premium is placed on thoughtfulness, not speed.
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Top Colleges Have Bigger Waiting Lists
Posted: April 14th, 2010, 1:03am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Uncertain how many applicants will accept admission offers, many colleges are placing more on waiting lists.
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Don Hewitt, Creator of ‘60 Minutes,’ Dies at 86
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 6:02pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Mr. Hewitt changed the course of broadcast news by creating the TV magazine show.
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The Choice: Transfer Students
Posted: June 15th, 2009, 2:43pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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A study of graduation rates at more than 1,300 colleges casts light on a related issue: the failure of the data to take into account the graduation rates among transfer students.
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Harvard to Endow Chair in Gay Studies
Posted: June 3rd, 2009, 1:32am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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The position, Harvard University believes, will be the first endowed, named chair in the subject at an American college.
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The Choice: Daughter Responds to Mother’s Anger
Posted: May 6th, 2009, 7:43pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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A Stanford senior responds to a stinging article her mother wrote in the National Review over her assignment to a co-ed dorm room -- an assignment, the daughter says, that was fine with her.
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Couric Rebounds With Web and Palin
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 12:08am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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By getting some of their best election coverage online, Katie Couric and the team behind “CBS Evening News” may have seized on a template for the not-so-distant future.
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Savage Stands by Autism Remarks
Posted: July 21st, 2008, 6:39pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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The radio host Michael Savage said he had no intention of apologizing over his remarks that characterized nearly every autistic child as “a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.”
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Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:26am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Fox has seen its once formidable advantage over CNN erode in this presidential election year, as both CNN and MSNBC have added viewers at far more dramatic rates.
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Football Talk Soon Turns to Race on Imus’s Show
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 12:57pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Don Imus waded into racially treacherous waters again on his new radio program in a brief exchange about a suspended professional football player, Adam Jones.
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Ideas & Trends: For New Journalists, All Bets, but Not Mikes, Are Off
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 11:12pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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A citizen journalist embarrasses a former president — and prompts a discussion about the dos and don’ts of ethical reporting in the YouTube age.
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Larry King Squelches Rumors of Shift at CNN
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:55am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Larry King, who said last year that he hoped Ryan Seacrest would succeed him, sought to tamp down speculation that any succession was imminent.
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News Analysis: For CBS, Long-Simmering Troubles That One Star Couldn’t Solve
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 9:19pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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If a journalism class of the future is asked to identify low points in the vaunted history of CBS News, it might do well to examine the second week of April 2008. -
Parts of Rather’s Suit Against CBS Dismissed
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:47am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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The judge, setting aside Dan Rather individual claims, said, however, that Mr. Rather could continue to pursue his claim that CBS, as an entity, had breached its contract. -
New Entertainment President at HBO
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:07pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Sue Naegle, a Hollywood talent agent, faces the task of finding the network’s next “Sopranos.”
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New Entertainment President at HBO
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:07pm EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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Sue Naegle, a Hollywood talent agent, faces the task of finding the network’s next “Sopranos.”
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The Buzz on the Bus: Pinched, Press Steps Off
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 2:08am EDT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
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As newspapers slash costs, the presence of relatively few print reporters on candidates’ buses and planes this year is striking.