Diana Henriques

Washington Female CEOs Earn $600,000 Less Than Male Lobby Peers

bloomberg.com — Women led eight of Washington 's 50 most politically active trade lobby groups and earned about $600,000 less than their male counterparts, according to salary data compiled by Bloomberg. The female chief executive officers were paid an average of $1.31 million in 2011, compared with $1.93 million paid to the 42 male CEOs.

White House Pushes to Revive Legislation Protecting Reporters

nytimes.com — WASHINGTON - The Obama administration sought on Wednesday to revive legislation that would provide greater protections to reporters from penalties for refusing to identify confidential sources, and that would enable journalists to ask a federal judge to quash subpoenas for their phone records, a White House official said.

The Next Scapegoat

nytimes.com — Twenty years ago, when she was a young Foreign Service officer in Moscow, Victoria Nuland gave me a dazzling briefing on the diverse factions inside the Russian parliament.

My Lucky Stroke - NYTimes.com

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com — Twenty two months ago, I interrupted my nonstop journalistic pursuit of paths toward sustainable human progress to focus on sustaining myself. The hiatus was not by choice, but was mandated by a stroke - the out-of-the-blue variant, the rare kind of " brain attack " (the term preferred by some neurologists) that is most often seen in otherwise healthy, youngish middle-aged people.

New graduates burdened with debt, but brimming with optimism

gwhatchet.com — John Bennett could have been graduating debt-free this week from a state university. Instead, he'll need to pay off $107,000 in student loans after four years at GW. And when Spencer Dixon dons a cap and gown Sunday - a year earlier than his peers to avoid more debt - he will have racked up $20,700 in loans.