CJR has high praise for Dayton Daily News reporter and Guild member Jeremy P. Kelly for a story on campaign cash, calling it "a  thorough peek behind a curtain (that) shed real light on one way that political money moves." Kelley tells CJR that he took over the politics beat in February and decided to create an election cycle campaign finance database to look for story-worthy trends. Working part time on this effort, he created the database, spotted this money-moving trend from the National Institute data, and completed the interviews for the piece in about two weeks. “I think this story explained a system that few people understood,” Kelley said via email to CJR.

Poynter notes that the Washington Post's "blockbuster story" on Mitt Romney's alleged high-school bullying ran online early Thursday but wasn't in the print edition until Friday. "I can’t be the only Post subscriber wondering why I’m paying for the print edition of the Post when something this important flies onto my porch a day after the political world has chewed it over and reacted already," Beaujon writes. Post editors explain their decisions.

A veteran Sun copy editor digs up some of the historically priceless mistakes the paper has made, from misspelling Abraham Lincoln's name to reporting that all the Titantic passengers were safe, and to missing the news of Johns Hopkins' death because the famed docter's servant had been turned away from the newsroom in 1873.

WMATA, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, has declared that Greater Greater Washington and other blogs aren't "news media" and must pay hefty fees for public information requests. Greater Greater Washhington is seeking to appeal the ruling and hoping to find a lwayer who will help pro bono.