Taking Out The Trash, 07.27.06

  • One more day to get your nominees in for Hottest Media Types (and remember: pics appreciated). Send to fishbowlDC at mediabistro dot com or in our anonymous tips box.

  • One ambitious Googling reader thinks that a story by a college freshman about drunken hookups written ten years ago would probably fit right in on the Style section’s front page. We totally agree.

  • The Washington Post sweeps the competition in Hill coverage.

  • A day in the life of the WaPo newsroom, as seen through the eyes of Asharq Al Awsat.

  • TVNewser.com founder and editor, Brian Stelter, is the guest on this weekend’s The Communicators on C-SPAN.

  • With this year’s election cycle creeping up on us, how are political reporters going to keep track of all the contests? Fear not, Stateline, a policy and politics website, now has a handy interactive chart! At this point, it’s only state contests that are included (governors, attorneys general and secretaries of state), but it sure could provide a little insight for those national political reporters hopping around the country analyzing what’s going on in those red and blue states.

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