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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned following the controversial release of a video showing an NPR fundraiser describing the Tea Party as racist and saying that the network would be better off without federal funding. Just Monday, Schiller had spoken publicly about the importance of federal funding to NPR. The video, as you… Share this: [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Allan Sloan wrote about Rupert Murdoch is using $673 million of his shareholders’ money to buy Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth’s production company. That self-dealing caused him to say this: It’s one thing to have News Corp. employ family members. But it’s a different thing to use assets of a company 88 [...]

Back in 1999—simpler times, perhaps—there was a little-noticed brouhaha in federal court over an effort to get several secret US government documents released through official channels. The James Madison Project, a Washington-based nonprofit that champions openness and accountability in government, especially on national security and intelligence matters, was sparring with the Central Intelligence Agency. At [...]