10/8/09

"That was a whole David Letterman ago"



Have you checked out "Politics Daily," the AOL news startup? The editor-in-chief is a smart journalist named Melinda Henneberger, who hails from a small town in downstate Illinois.

She's lived all over, worked all over, earned multiple degrees and even served on a Pulitzer Prize team of reporters from New York Newsday.

Henneberger's stamp is fresh, smartly-written news stories that are well-researched. Her site brings women's voices to the surface, which is what we'd hope for from the author of If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear.







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  • On today's site you'll find: A well-written piece by Wendy Button, the former health care speechwriter for John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Button now finds herself without health insurance.
  • Delia Lloyd's eye-opening "Woman Up" blog item about one of the famous defenders of accused rapist Roman Polansky. (That's where you'll find the Letterman quote.) The motto of "Woman Up is: "Where big-girl panties are always a fit."
  • Finally, there's "Daily Flotus," a blog about Michelle Obama written by Lynn Sweet, head of the Chicago Sun-Times' Washington Bureau.

Enjoy.