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 Observatory
Attachment parenting, detached debate
Time’s titillating cover overshadows article’s substance
By Curtis Brainard May 15, 2012 at 02:15 PM
Time touched a nerve this week with its provocative cover photo of 26-year-old Jamie Lynne Grumet and her 3-year-old son... More
Behind the News
Stories I’d like to see
Press-dinner proceeds, cat-and-mouse China reporting, testing the testers
By Steven Brill May 15, 2012 at 08:41 AM
In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More
Magazine: Review
The astroturf Cassandra
Why hacks like Andrew Keen really fear the social Web
By Maureen Tkacik May 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Long before Facebook or Foursquare, men like the late management consultant Martin Jay Levitt were connoisseurs of social networks. At... More
Swing States Project
For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers
Political ads may not be all “gravy” for local stations—but they’re still an awfully good deal
By Erika Fry May 15, 2012 at 06:50 AM
When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt... More
Page Views
What it takes to win the White House
A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The Candidate
By Jordan Michael Smith May 14, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The Candidate: What It Takes to Win—And Hold—The White House | By Samuel L. Popkin | Oxford University Press... More
Swing States Project
Pushing back, making connections
Michigan political reporters have a job to do
By Anna Clark May 14, 2012 at 11:29 AM
MICHIGAN — Quinn Klinefelter is a longtime news editor at WDET, the National Public Radio station in Detroit. His voice... More
Obama ‘evolves,’ Romney ‘flip-flops’ - Reporters construct differing narratives
The Washington Post Co.’s Self-Destructive Course
What’s in my… Dean Takahashi from GamesBeat unpacks
Laboratory confidential - The Double Helix shakes up science writing
Obama 'evolves,' Romney 'flip-flops' (36)
The reporter who saw it coming (24)
Puff piece endorsement for bogus autism/vaccine link
The Chicago Sun-Times is having a bad PR day
GQ on the pop star’s delayed maturation
JaVale McGee’s crusade for facts-based reporting
Don’t take platypus acquisitions at face value
LA Times shutters its Sunday mag
The Wrap reports
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.
















