Garance Franke-Ruta
Summary
Garance Franke-Ruta (born 1972 in Cavaillon, Vaucluse, France) is the politics editor of The Atlantic Online. Previously she was a national web politics editor for the Washington Post and a blogger for its WhoRunsGov site, a senior editor at the American Prospect and a senior writer at the Washington City Paper, D.C.'s alternative weekly newspaper. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Salon, Legal Affairs, Utne Reader and National Journal, and is also a frequent diavlog participant with other political and current event journalists on BloggingHeads.tv. After attending Hunter College, she transferred to Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1997.Franke-Ruta was born in Cavaillon while her parents were staying in Lacoste, Vaucluse, and grew up in San Cristbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York City.
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‘Said to Lady Journos’ Tumblr is ‘depressingly relatable,’ female journalists say
A new Tumblr, Said to Lady Journos, highlights comments (mostly sexist) that female journalists hear on the job.
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Journalists remember the late Richard Ben Cramer
The Philadelphia Inquirer | Politico | The Atlantic | The New York Times | BuzzFeed | The Chestertown Spy Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer died Monday night. He was 62 and had lung cancer. Cramer’s 1992 book “What … Read more.
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This Week in Review: Truth and lies on Twitter during Sandy, and the pundits vs. Nate Silver
Twitter as both truth and lie generator: As Sandy finally dissipates, millions remain without power, heat, and transportation. The news-about-the-news crowd has moved on pretty quickly to analysis, though, so there’s a ton to sift through. First, I’ll look at everything on social media and misinformation, then everything else involved with Sandy and media.
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A laurel to The Atlantic's Garance Franke-Ruta
This week’s laurel goes to Garance Franke-Ruta of The Atlantic, whose astute web piece “What to Do With Political Lies,” offered some simple, useful advice for how journalists can better respond to misleading and unsubstantiated attacks on the campaign trail. Franke-Ruta starts with the premise—shared by The New Republic’s Alec MacGillis, whose.
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How do newspapers deal with politicians who go on repeating lies?
US presidential election campaigns are usually noteworthy for the dirt that candidates throw at each other, and the latest one is running true to form.
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Twitter Responds To Rick Perry's Massive Gaffe
After tonight's Washington Post/Bloomberg GOP debate, Rick Perry misspoke when talking to the press at Dartmouth College about his anti-federalism views by emphasizing that ". . . the reason we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown. ".
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