New York, NY (Vocus) October 22, 2010
Remapping Debate, an on the web domestic policy journal focused on original reporting, is posing the why and why not inquiries that are also seldom asked by most news outlets. The publication is getting important focus for its Story Repair feature, exactly where it requires in an article from a significant news outlet and reworks the story to make it more illuminating.

Early comments:

Remapping Debate’s prescription for remedying substandard media coverage of policy concerns is all spot on.

Remapping Debate “looks to be an exciting new source of reporting on politics and public policy.”

In the most current edition of Remapping Debate:

Integrated work to fight housing, school barriers?
Original Reporting, by Greg Marx
When the Department of Housing and Urban Improvement final week announced $ 100 million in grants to market sustainable regional preparing, it was a large day for the Obama Administration’s flagship effort to build a “geography of chance.” A closer look, though, shows outstanding concerns about what role racial and financial integration play in the new metropolitan agenda and about how difficult the federal government is ready to push for these objectives when it encounters local resistance.

Preparation for active citizenship not on education agenda
Original Reporting, by Diana Jean Schemo
As numerous education debates rage, schooling in the tools of democracy is not part of the national discussion.

Also featured this week:

Data viz tools show escalating large bank share more than time
Original Reporting, by Mike Alberti
Remapping Debate translates 18 years of FDIC information into interactive type best five banks viewable within and across sectors.

Economists, real estate agents divided over impact of foreclosure delays
Story Repair, by Diana Jean Schemo
With higher scrutiny of bank conduct slowing the foreclosure approach, economists and genuine estate agents divided sharply more than the influence of those delays on the housing recovery. They also had been split over the economic consequences for the genuine estate industry if banks had been to make higher use of loan modification programs, as the Federal Deposit Insurance coverage Corporation and some economists have proposed.

Street view: what is missing from press coverage?
Original Reporting, by Mike Alberti and Adam Kroopnick
Remapping Debate recently visited Union Square Park in New York to sample what some people had to say about the state of press coverage these days.

Who requirements to reassure whom?
Commentary, by Craig Gurian
Markets are in search of “reassurance” all the time. The author wonders when markets are going to supply him some reassurance.

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