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I've been reading about some of the following things this week. But please remember this posting is not exhaustive. Some of you are relying too much on these notes to understand what's going on in your world. Remember, a daily diet of news is critical to participating as a citizen, a worker, a consumer. News isn't important because "KC's News Meeting" says it is.
Here's what I've been learning about. Use comments to add your own ideas.
- Madison tuition initiative
- NCAA tournament
- AIG bonuses
- Detroit bailouts
- plan for Afghanistan
- stock market rallies
- who is Tim Geithner and what does he want to do for us?
- violence in Mexico

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Here are some developments I followed during the week. Add yours via comments:
- football players in boating accident
- unemployment increases
- possible plea deal in Madoff case
- AIG needing more help
- market hits 12-year low
- efforts to help homeowners in mortgage trouble
- court arguments over California gay marriage ban
- Obama administration and stem cells

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What's on your radar this week? Since I haven't seen all that many comments in past weeks, I'm going to withhold my list of what seems to be percolating in the news and let you define it. Post comments with your ideas or the quiz questions could end up being a complete surprise.

KC News Meeting

Here's what I've been paying attention to this week. Add your ideas and issues via comments. Quiz questions come from mine or yours, but at times big news hits and I add it to the quiz even when it's not here.
- stimulus plan
- A-Rod and 'roids
- TARP
- second commerce secretary nominee withdraws
- plane crash in New York
- octuplet mom talks to Ann Curry (gak)
- peanut recall
- grilling CEOs on Capitol Hill
- wild fires in Australia
- Burris and Blago - the saga continues

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Here are some stories I've been following this week. Add yours to the comments, so we're all thinking about the quiz:
- Tom Daschle withdraws as nominee
- executive compensation concerns
- Supreme Court Justice undergoes surgery
- Michael Phelps and the bong hit heard 'round the world
- economy contracts but not as much as others feared
- digital TV conversion delayed
- Madoff hearings
- abortion clinic in Madison
- negotiating the stimulus package
- peanut recall

KC News Meeting

Welcome to a brand new crop of 202ers. Each week, I post to the "KC News Meeting" tag on this blog a short list of things that have made the news during this week. This should prompt you to make sure you've prepared for the current events quizzes. But my lists aren't comprehensive or exhaustive. So I want you to post comments to add news items you think are important. I try to draw quiz questions from a combination of my posts and your comments.
So what's been happening:
- one word: Blagojevich
- economic stimulus package
- John Updike dies
- administration appointments, including Timothy Geithner for Treasury
- Pfizer pharmaceutical may be getting much bigger
- Gov. Jim Doyle covers the state budget woes
- Microsoft cuts jobs
- Obama makes a move on auto emissions
- massive Wall Street bonuses look bad, very very bad
- upcoming elections in Iraq

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What's in the news this week? 3 thoughts to get you started. I'll pull quiz questions from the items you add as comments.
- Bloomberg's hopes as mayor of NYC
- OPEC prices
- new UW chancellor speaks

KC's News Meeting

In the news this week:
- international coordinated rate cut
- Detroit auto industry
- Palin investigation results
- power-sharing in Zimbabwe
- UW band
What are you reading about?

KC's News Meeting

What are you thinking about in the news this week:
- $700 billion bailout ... what does it *actually* do?
- McCain debate proposal
- Couric and Palin
- U.S. actions in Pakistan
- Palin e-mail hacking
- Ehud Olmert steps down
- Letterman has fit of pique
- trial begins for Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens

Are You Informed?

This piece is worth a read:

http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=QYw8fVKV9Vv4V6kWySfwnJynqhrkzfSg

I am routinely troubled by our failure in getting and keeping ourselves informed. A student asked me a few weeks ago what specific steps she could take to improve her base of knowledge. Our exchange went roughly like this:

What is the home page that opens when your launch your primary Web browser?
Facebook.
Change it to Google News, New York Times or Washington Post. You can still visit Facebook, but you'll see key news every time you launch.

Do you subscribe to a print publication, either newspaper or magazine?
No.
Pick one. I get a local and national. But I'm about to subscribe to a magazine called "The Week" that serves as a digest of key issues worth knowing.

Do you ever talk about current issues with friends?
Not really.
Try once a day to have a conversation with someone about something you read.

KC News Meeting

What's in the news this week? I'll goose a limited list, but you do the rest. Last quiz ... but that doesn't mean you can stop reading/listening/watching.
- China and Tibet
- mortgage crisis and bailouts
- sniper fire in Bosnia
- the 4,000 mark in Iraq
- two candidates, a pastor and speeches on race

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Some highlights from the week. What are yours?
- diplomatic crisis in Latin America
- primaries the made one party's decision but not another's
- a "monster" and a campaign resignation
- jobs losses and recession fears
- killings at Jerusalem seminary
- some quarterback retired

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The floor is yours, what news mattered this week? Post your comments and get a discussion going.

KC News Meeting

Sorry, I got locked out of Blogger for a bit because Google thought I was a spyware robot. Never thought I was that nefarious.
Here's what I've been reading, in massively abbreviated version. Please add yours:
- Wisconsin primary
- street racing tragedy
- Castro stepping down
- Kosovo recognition
- elections in Pakistan
- Microsoft fights for Yahoo

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What's going on this week? Here's my start to the thread. Post your ideas via comments.
- Yahoo! rejects Microsoft's bid
- do you know what "superdelegates" are?
- BlackBerry service down (what are all those CrackBerry addicts doing tonight?)

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What news stories are you monitoring this week? Here's a start on mine. Post yours via comments.
- Super Tuesday
- horrific mall killing outside Chicago
- Britney in crisis
- economic stimulus
- Kenya
- salary for our new chancellor
- umm, what's that? snow in our forecast? get outta here!
And while you're at it, think about how these kinds of stories play to the communication values we discussed in lecture. Britney and prominence. Kenya and conflict. Which have the greatest quantitative impact? Qualitative?

KC's News Meeting

Hi everyone. Each week I'll put in a blog entry for my "news meeting." A news meeting in a newsroom would be the session at which editors decide what's worth putting in the paper or online. TV and radio have them too. Some PR practitioners also send out "morning meeting" roundups to reporters when they try to pitch stories.
We'll use the news meeting as a way to clue each other into what's news. I'll lead off with some things I've been reading about this week and you can add comments to throw in your ideas. I'll scan the activity on Sunday nights before I write current events questions for the quiz, but I can't make any promises that all the questions will come from the blog activity. I can only say the more active you are, the more likely you'll cover everything I will.
So, without further delay, our first-ever KC News Meeting. Currently, I'm reading a lot about:
- John McCain's resurging candidacy
- a guy named Rudy who used to be a front-runner
- race and gender in the Democratic primary battle
- Suharto's death (for real reasons but also because it ties to one of the best journalism movies EVER, check out my Facebook favs for more info)
- economic stimulus package
- subprime mortgage crisis
- Super Bowl
- Yahoo layoffs
- Madison's new school superintendent
- city's first homicide of '08
What are you checking out?

In the News

What are you reading about this week? Last quiz = last chance. Offer it up. I may go full throttle and ask six current events questions. What might those look like?

In the News

What are you reading about? It's all up to you this time. I'm not giving you any seed stories. Have at it in the comments section.

In the News

What are you reading about this week? I've been closely following the Crandon shootings, Nobel prizes, a big beer collaboration, civilian deaths in Iraq, political conflict with Turkey ... and much more.