Language Corner
Pleas-ing words
Prepositions and crime
By Merrill Perlman May 20, 2013 at 03:00 PM
One man "pleaded guilty to DWI." Another "pled guilty of DWI." A third "entered a plea of guilty to DWI... More
The Audit
How technology redefines norms
Reasonable resistance to the upending of cultural mores is not “technopanic”
By Felix Salmon May 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Jeff Jarvis reprints the clip above, in an article dismissing the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass. The Victorian attitudes... More
United States Project
Scandal!
Walter Shapiro’s Rough Rules for Responsible Mongering
By Walter Shapiro May 20, 2013 at 11:15 AM
I have been commenting on Washington scandals for nearly four decades--ever since the dead-drunk Wilbur Mills, the unduly lionized chairman... More
Behind the News
‘We are all journalists now’
140 Journos and Turkey’s “counter-media” movement
By Deirdre Dlugoleski May 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
In a 2011 court case in Diyarbakır, Turkey, a student is on trial for membership in a terrorist organization. The... More
The Audit
Audit Notes: WSJ on the IRS, countering Kinsley, Cramer gets an ‘F’
The paper mishandles news on the Tea Party targeting story
By Ryan Chittum May 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Rupert Murdoch must have loved his Wall Street Journal front page on Saturday. Editors splashed this headline across the top... More
Cloud Control
Anything but dull
The House kicks off its review of copyright by finding out how limited agreement about the law is
By Sarah Laskow May 17, 2013 at 04:09 PM
Rep. Howard Coble knows the reputation of intellectual property law--that it is dull and boring. But at a Congressional hearing... More
The Kicker
Must-reads of the week
“Time passes very slowly when you’re in a hippo’s mouth”
By The Editors May 17, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
United States Project
Covering facts versus the ‘narrative’
The challenge for journalists when scandal fever hits
By Brendan Nyhan May 17, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The dilemma for journalists this week: How should you cover a series of proto-scandals with seemingly little in common? As... More
Minority Reports
Social minority issues in perspective
Recent stories that flesh out important topics
By Jennifer Vanasco May 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The media covers social minorities regularly in the daily churn of news. A lot of that coverage just skims the... More
The Audit
Peggy Noonan loses it on the IRS story
The Journal columnist draws an evidence-free connection to the White House
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. That's Peggy Noonan today in The Wall Street... More
The Second Opinion
The insanity of hospital pricing
The academics are wrong and the press is right: wildly varying healthcare billing is a very big deal
By Trudy Lieberman May 16, 2013 at 03:08 PM
Last week's release of the wildly varying prices that hospitals charge Medicare may no longer be news du jour, but... More
United States Project
Q&A: Shaun McKinnon, veteran water reporter
An Arizona Republic reporter and self-described “water geek” on how to cover western water issues
By Joel Campbell May 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
PROVO, UT -- Water issues may not be the sexy beat to which young journalists first aspire, but here in... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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