Swing States Project
Out of the living room, onto the trail
To gauge what’s really happening in the TV ad war, reporters need to talk to voters
By Walter Shapiro May 17, 2012 at 03:14 PM
The Living Room War was launched this week—the ferocious bombardment of attack ads that will make turning on a television... More
The Kicker
Why China ejected Melissa Chan
Sending a message to the foreign press
By Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi May 17, 2012 at 01:15 PM
Is this the kind of reporting that got Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan expelled from China last week? The foreign... More
Behind the News
‘This is my paper. This is my town’
One year after a devastating tornado, The Joplin Globe feels stronger
By Bret J. Schulte May 17, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Jack Kaminsky lives with his mother now. He is 63 years old, broad shouldered, with silver hair and a... More
The Audit
The Facebook frenzy
Retail investors prepare to jump on a richly valued IPO
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal's page-one Facebook IPO story does a good job of capturing some uncomfortable parallels to the dot.com... More
Magazine: Currents
Hard Numbers
Retracting “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”
By The Editors May 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
888,000 downloads of “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” the January 6 This American Life episode based on Mike Daisey’s... More
The Observatory
USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow
Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’
By Curtis Brainard May 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
USA Today sees an oily, gassy rainbow on America’s energy horizon. “Energy independence isn’t just a pipe dream,” read a... More
Swing States Project
Debating Amendment One in North Carolina
Faced with an opportunity to lead civic discussion and take a stand, some papers fare better than others
By Andria Krewson May 16, 2012 at 03:30 PM
NORTH CAROLINA — Last week, North Carolina voters overwhelmingly passed Amendment One to the state constitution, defining marriage as between... More
The Audit
What’s the right price for ebooks? (updated)
It’s probably not 99 cents
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Author Chuck Windig, GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick all took on the question of ebook pricing recently, arguing... More
Magazine: Currents
How I got that story
RealRural
By The Editors May 16, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In March 2011, Lisa M. Hamilton, a writer and photographer, began a series of road trips around rural California.... More
Language Corner
Logue jam
A catalog of dialogues
By Merrill Perlman May 16, 2012 at 06:50 AM
“Catalogue” can also be spelled “catalog.” “Dialogue” can also be spelled “dialog.” But “monologue” is rarely spelled “monolog.” The Americans... More
The Audit
Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes
By Ryan Chittum May 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Conor Friedersdorf makes a nice catch on Tom Friedman's Sunday column bemoaning the commercialization of seemingly all aspects of American... More
Campaign Desk
Health costs: Is Mass. the only model?
What about Vermont? (Not to mention Maryland)
By Trudy Lieberman May 15, 2012 at 03:19 PM
We all know Obamacare is Romneycare and Romneycare is Obamacare and that the Bay State has set the standard for... More
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course
What’s in my… Dean Takahashi from GamesBeat unpacks
Obama ‘evolves,’ Romney ‘flip-flops’ - Reporters construct differing narratives
Laboratory confidential - The Double Helix shakes up science writing
The astroturf Cassandra - Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web
Times-Picayune’s epic prison series
The paper looks at the “world’s prison capital”
Barbara Ehrenreich on reporting on the poor
When is a website not a website?
“TPM is not a website — it’s a bundle of knowledge and expertise”
“16. Your time as a libertarian, Buddhist, and/or bisexual is over.”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Missouri Scout – Subscription-based niche political news from a stockbroker turned political junkie
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
