SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Ok you’re sitting there asking yourself, who is Jeff Goldberg? Well he is the former beat reporter for the UConn Huskies women’s basketball team and for the last two years has been covering the Red Sox for the Hartford Courant. It turns out he is taking a buyout from the Hartford Courant. Here’s the details from [...]
INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Jeff Goldberg : Via the great sage of journalism, Seth Lipsky, I learned a long time ago Peter Kann's rule concerning the first-person pronoun: "No reporter may start a story with the word 'I' unless he's been shot in the groin." The New York Times reporter Campbell Robertson violated the rule yesterday... Jeff Goldberg : Several years ago, I had dinner at Galileo, a Washington...
SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Scott at Scott’s Shots is reporting that the Hartford Courant New England Patriots beat writer David Heuschkel was also part of the Tribune buyout that also grabbed the Courant’s Red Sox beat writer Jeff Goldberg and will be leaving the paper shortly. In his time there Heuschkel also covered the Boston Red Sox for [...]
The Joy of Sox (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Jon Lester (3.48, 123 ERA+) / Andy Pettitte (3.98, 101 ERA+) Jeff Goldberg, Courant : The last time the Red Sox and Yankees played each other in the second half of the season with neither team in first place was 1997 and the Rays didn't even exist. But the Red Sox (having lost five of their last six games) are now 3½ games out in second place, while the third-place Yankees are 7½ GB....
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Catching up on some of the more interesting panels and events here at the Aspen/Atlantic Ideas Fest. Yes -- most folks here are ... well, I don't want to call them liberal, but take a gander at Jeff Goldberg's post about one of this morning's panels. A small indication of the political leanings of some Aspen attendees: At a session with Jim Wallis, Michael Cromartie and our very own...
Ross Douthat (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The bad news at the Aspen Ideas Festival is that you can't attend two panels at once - which meant that while I was listening to David Brooks yesterday, I had to miss our own Jeff Goldberg moderating a discussion on Islam between Irshad Manji and Dalia Mogahed . Fortunately, Jennie Rothenberg (our crack web editor) was in attendance, providing commentary as well as the following clips:...
InsuranceTech (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
... use of this for us is as a means of attracting new, younger agents to sell our products," he says.Jeff Goldberg, a senior analyst in Celent's insurance practice, says that it is yet to be seen whether Second Life will be an effective tool for insurers, but that the virtual world could very well have the potential to be a valuable recruiting tool. "While it's still to be proven whether...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Writing about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest jeremiad about Israel and Jews, Matthew Yglesias opines : You can construe Ahmadenijad's remarks about Israel the way Jeff Goldberg is doing, or you could draw a distinction between the idea of destroying Israel as a political entity and the idea of destroying its population. Independent Poland ceased to exist in the nineteenth century without...
