1. Media Coverage of Poverty: Quality, Not Just Quantity, Matters
(Matching tags: new york times, poverty, media)

In a new Nieman Reports article, Dan Froomkin argues that the media pay insufficient attention to poverty. Discussing Froomkin’s piece, Margaret Sullivan, the Public Editor of the New York Times, notes: ...

2. New York Times Reports False Statement on Venezuela’s Economic Growth During Chávez Years
(Matching tags: media coverage, new york times, venezuela, Chavez)

In an article by William Neuman, the New York Times reports that “Venezuela had one of the lowest rates of economic growth in the region during the 14 years that Mr. Chávez held office, according to World ...

3. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park, Part II
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, new york times, jobs, minimum wage, labor)

This is the second installment looking at the New York Times in depth investigation into the Caracol industrial park. For part one, click here. Jobs at What Cost? Sontag reports that while concerns ...

4. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, iadb, new york times, garment factories, economy, jobs, unions, environment, minimum wage, accountability)

The first of two installments looking at the New York Times in depth investigation into the Caracol industrial park. Part two will be posted shortly. Deborah Sontag, writing in today’s New York Times, ...

5. NYT Misleads on Poverty Trends
(Matching tags: new york times, poverty, inequality)

In a post yesterday, I wrote that the new poverty measure proposed by the Obama Administration—known as the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)—likely increases the poverty rate by a modest amount compared ...

6. Stan Greenberg Appears to be Confused About the Effects of Conservative Block Grant Schemes
(Matching tags: new york times, poverty, federal aid, welfare reform)

After writing about Elaine Kamarck's wrongheaded defense of the conservative 1996 Personal Responsibility Act, I remembered pollster Stan Greenberg's similarly odd claim, made in a widely read New York ...

7. New York Times: "Still Homeless in Haiti"
(Matching tags: shelter, tarps, new york times, relocation)

... ground is still dire. On Saturday, a New York Times editorial raised some of these important points, writing: Of the more than 1.5 million Haitians left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake, about 7,500 ...

8. New York Times: "Haiti’s Misery"
(Matching tags: aid distribution, rainy season, shelter, new york times)

A New York Times editorial today calls attention to the ongoing struggle in Haiti. The editorial calls for urgent efforts on shelter and sanitation and highlights a recent Amnesty report detailing a rise ...

9. New York Times: Relief Efforts Inadequate
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, shelter, ngos, new york times)

Last week a New York Times editorial criticized the relief efforts in Haiti: But after nearly two months, it’s not enough. Only half of those displaced have received even the crudest means of emergency ...