Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast's Washington bureau chief. He also hosts CNN's weekly media program Reliable Sources on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET. The longtime media reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, Kurtz is the author of five books.
The CEO Hail Mary: A Scorecard on Corporate Change Agents
Time Inc.'s vaunted outsider CEO Jack Griffin lasted five months before being fired. Nick Summers assesses how other key turnaround leaders are faring, from Nokia's Stephen Elop to United's Jeffrey Smisek.
Salon's New Market Strategy
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Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast's Washington bureau chief. He also hosts CNN's weekly media program Reliable Sources on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET. The longtime media reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, Kurtz is the author of five books.
As a possible deal with Newser falls apart, the online news pioneer ramps up its cultural coverage. The result: an ailing stock price, but traffic's on the rise. By Howard Kurtz
Ohio Budget Showdown's 2012 Echo
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R.M. Schneiderman is a reporter for Newsweek.
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Andrew Romano is a Senior Writer for Newsweek. He reports on politics, culture, and food for the print and web editions of the magazine and appears frequently on CNN and MSNBC. His 2008 campaign blog, Stumper, won MINOnline's Best Consumer Blog award and was cited as one of the cycle's best news blogs by both Editor & Publisher and the Deadline Club of New York. Follow Andrew on Twitter.
Forget Wisconsin's meltdown. In this week's Newsweek, R.M. Schneiderman and Andrew Romano report on how Ohio's budget battle could decide who wins the White House in 2012.
America's Cold-Case Crisis
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Linda Fairstein is a bestselling crime novelist and the former chief prosecutor of the New York County District Attorney's Sex Crimes Unit. Her new novel, Silent Mercy, is in stores next week.
Testing old rape kits could put countless rapists in prison-and exonerate others who were wrongly convicted. Linda Fairstein on the tragedy of letting these truth-tellers collect dust.
The Vegas Suicide Mystery
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Winston Ross is a reporter for the Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon and a regular contributor to Newsweek.com. He blogs irregularly at winstonross.wordpress.com.
It started out as a simple plan: Help a suicidal woman kill herself so that it looked like natural causes. There was just one problem-she says she wasn't in on it.
Florida Child Abuse Scandal: The Victim's New Life
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Jacqui Goddard is a freelance foreign correspondent for British national newspapers including The Times, Sunday Telegraph and The Scotsman. Based in Florida since 2002, she has also written for publications including the South China Morning Post, The Australian, the Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail (Canada), and reported for BBC radio.
Amid preparations for his sister's funeral, the surviving victim of Florida's gruesome abuse scandal is making a "miracle" recovery-even as his foster mom claims innocence.
Rachel Maddow Seizes Her Moment at Post-Keith Olbermann MSNBC
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More Juicy Bits From the Sarah Palin Tell-All
Shushannah Walshe covers politics for The Daily Beast. She is the co-author of Sarah From Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar. She was a reporter and producer at the Fox News Channel from August 2001 until the end of the 2008 presidential campaign.
The Whites-Only College Scholarship
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Charlie Sheen's Crazy New BFF
Randall Lane is editor at large at The Daily Beast. The former editor in chief of Trader Monthly, Dealmaker and P.O.V. magazines, and the former Washington bureau chief of Forbes, he is the author of The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane.