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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008...9:34 am

Talking Points Memo

TPM, an online media outlet begun as a blog in 2000, has received a Polk Award as it “….led the news media coverage of the politically motivated dismissals of United States attorneys across the country. Noting a similarity between firings in Arkansas and California, Marshall (with staff reporter-bloggers Paul Kiel and Justin Rood) connected the dots and found a pattern of federal prosecutors being forced from office for failing to do the Bush Administration’s bidding.”

TPM did so in collaboration with it’s readers from around the country who sent in reports from their local media of the firing of their local US Attorney, from which TPM staff “connected the dots.” TPM kept digging, and kept the story alive until traditional media outlets belatedly picked up the story.

Will Bunch, at his ATTYTOOD blog, has a really good run down on the implications of the awarding of a Polk Award to an online media outlet for the traditional media landscape, and how TPM developed the story.

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