Dexter Filkins, NYT war correspondent, moving to New Yorker

The Observer reports that Dexter Filkins, author of the "The Forever War," a gripping account of combat in Iraq, and one of the New York Times's top correspondents in Afghanistan/Pakistan, will leave the paper to work for the New Yorker. He won't be covering the war for the magazine.

"Combat" isn't a policy position

The Associated Press has cautioned reporters against reporting uncritically on the Obama administration's declaration that "combat operations" in Iraq are over. Poynter