Lauren Ashburn

Lauren Ashburn is founder and editor-in-chief of Daily-Download.com and a contributor to The Daily Beast. She is a former managing editor of USA Today Live and Gannett Broadcasting.

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More Than a Wife

Debbie Does Politics

Congressional wife Debbie Dingell tells Lauren Ashburn why she skipped out on a Michigan Senate race.

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Don’t Forget

Boston’s Youngest Victim

The hyperspeed media cycle has already made his death old news. Lauren Ashburn on why we must remember 8-year-old Martin Richard.

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Up All Night

Twitter Never Sleeps

Social media blanketed the shootout in Boston. Lauren Ashburn on how the mainstream press was eclipsed.

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This Again?

Blast From the 9/11 Past

From bombings to ricin letters, Washington is having a war-on-terror flashback, says Lauren Ashburn.

Lauren Ashburn

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Getting It Right

Twitter Explodes Over Blasts

Lauren Ashburn on how the Boston Marathon bombings showed how social media has grown up.

Lauren Ashburn

Lauren Ashburn

Debbie Does Politics

Boston’s Youngest Victim

Twitter Never Sleeps

Blast From the 9/11 Past

Twitter Explodes Over Blasts

Bill O’Reilly’s Macho Moment

Donald Trump, Still Wacky

Calling BS on Beltway Cursing

Pistorius: The Next O.J. Trial?

A Political Daughter’s Secret