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Talking Points Memo
Main page of Talking Points Memo
as of August 2010
Type of site
Political blog, news, discussion forum
Available inEnglish
OwnerJosh Marshall
Created byJosh Marshall
EditorJosh Marshall
URLwww.talkingpointsmemo.com
CommercialSubscription and advertising supported
RegistrationFor discussion forum
LaunchedNovember 12, 2000; 23 years ago (2000-11-12)
Current statusActive

Talking Points Memo (TPM) is a liberal political news and opinion website created and run by Josh Marshall that debuted on November 12, 2000. The name is a reference to the memo (short list) consisting of the issues (points) discussed by one's side in a debate or used to support a position taken on an issue.[1] By 2007, TPM received an average of 400,000 page views every weekday.[2]

Growth

Talking Points Memo was founded as a political blog in 2000 by

Obama administration.[4][8] The site introduced a subscription service, TPM Prime, in 2012,[9] which by 2017 had over 21,000 subscribers,[10] and by December 2020 had nearly 35,000 subscribers.[11]

Reception

Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols describe the site as taking a "more raucous and sensational" tone than traditional news media. This includes coining phrases such as "Bamboozlepalooza" to describe George W. Bush's efforts to privatize Social Security, which the blog opposed;[12] and "bitch-slap politics" to refer to the Swiftboating of 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry.[13]

McChesney and Nichols compare the site's style to the

La Follette's Weekly.[14] Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, in 2009 said "TPM is really an advocacy operation that has moved toward journalism."[4]

Guest bloggers have included

anonymous blogger DK. On November 11, 2006, DK was revealed to be attorney David Kurtz, who now posts openly under his name.[citation needed
]

In 2007, TPM won a

George Polk Award for Legal Reporting for its coverage of the 2006 U.S. Attorneys scandal, becoming the first online-only outlet to receive the award.[15]

Related projects

  • TPMCafe - a "spin-off" blog also created by Josh Marshall, is a companion website that debuted on May 31, 2005. This site features a collection of blogs about a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues written by academics, journalists, and former public officials, among others.
  • TPMmuckraker - a new blog that was founded when Marshall expanded his operation where journalists working for the TPM collective, such as Paul Kiel and Justin Rood, investigate political corruption.
  • TPMDC - founded in January 2007, the Horse's Mouth, is a blog authored by Greg Sargent with a remit to cover how Washington politics was covered by the major news outlets, that moved home from The American Prospect to the TPM Media family.[16] Sargent had begun writing for TPMCafe in July 2006. In 2008, Sargent stopped posting to the Horse's Mouth blog and began posting to a new blog called TPM Election Central, which focused on covering the 2008 elections. In 2009, TPM Election Central was renamed TPMDC, to cover politics from Washington, D.C., and Marshall hired journalists based in Washington to report for the blog.
  • TPMLiveWire - is a spin-off established in September 2009.
  • TPMIdea Lab - is a blog established in January 2011 to cover science and technology.
  • TPMPollTracker - is an aggregator of various polls about incumbents taken by polling agencies.
  • TPMPrime - is a paid members-only section offering long form articles, and interactive discussions with journalists and political figures.[17]

The four blogs (Talking Points Memo, TPMCafe, TPMMuckraker, and TPMDC) are published by TPM Media LLC.[18]

References

  1. ^ See "talking point"
  2. ^ Glenn, David (September–October 2007). "The (Josh) Marshall Plan". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved September 8, 2007.
  3. ^
    Nieman Lab
    .
  4. ^ a b c Carmichael, Karen (2009). "Capital investment: Talking Points Memo launches a Washington bureau, augmenting its reporting firepower". American Journalism Review. 31 (5): 8.
  5. ^ Alterman, Eric (March 24, 2008). "Out of Print". The New Yorker.
  6. ^ Cohen, Noam (July 13, 2009). "Now Hiring at Talking Points Memo". The New York Times.
  7. ^ Anderson, Kevin (7 July 2009). "Andreessen leads funding for US political blog network". The Guardian.
  8. ^ Calderone, Michael (October 30, 2009). "TPM joins the pool and makes a splash". Politico.
  9. Nieman Lab
    .
  10. Nieman Lab
    .
  11. ^ Marshall, Josh (December 7, 2020). "The Push for 35,000". Talking Points Memo.
  12. ISBN 978-1-56858-700-4
    .
  13. ^ Marshall, Josh. "Well it seems there". Talking Points Memo. TPM Media. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  14. ISBN 978-1-56858-700-4
    .
  15. ^ Cohen, Noam (February 24, 2008). "A Web-only news operation gets its due". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on March 18, 2008.
  16. ^ The American Prospect [dead link]
  17. ^ "TPMPrime". TPMPrime. Retrieved 2012-10-08.[permanent dead link]
  18. ^ "TPMmuckraker". TPMmuckraker. Archived from the original on 2008-01-22. Retrieved 2010-08-13.

External links

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