Mark Mitchell (reporter)
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Mark Mitchell was once the assistant managing editor of CJR Daily, a web outlet of the Columbia Journalism Review
Columbia Journalism Review
The Columbia Journalism Review is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961....

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His tenure there was in some respects controversial. For example, in this forum he backed up assistant editor Bree Nordenson in the claim that Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...

 was suppressing the fact that median income had declined during the administration of President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

. Krugman was not otherwise thought to be an apologist for the Bush administration.

Economist Brad DeLong referred to Mitchell and Nordenson as members of a "circular firing squad of flying journalistic attack monkeys.".

More recently, Mitchell has reported for the website Deep Capture on what Deep Capture alleges is the widespread pattern of corruption associated especially with certain short sellers and inside traders..
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