Latest Stories

• Behind the News, The Audit, The News Frontier

  It’s All About Us WaPo’s Story Lab experiment fizzles

  By Holly Yeager

  Fri Jul 30 2010 12:52 PM

• Campaign Desk, Regret the Error

  How WikiLeaks Outsourced the Burden of Verification To the Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel

  By Craig Silverman

  Fri Jul 30 2010 12:15 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Sebelius Watch, Part IV The press falls for the bait

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Fri Jul 30 2010 10:28 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Obama, Labor Buster; BP Board’s Blame; Google Pollution

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jul 29 2010 08:24 PM

• The Audit, The Observatory

  BP Defines Deviancy Down The national press is slow off the mark on the huge oil spill in Michigan

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jul 29 2010 07:24 PM

• Campaign Desk, Transparency

  Fox Faults On FOIA New law unclear, but not as bad as you’ve heard

  By Clint Hendler

  Thu Jul 29 2010 05:01 PM

• Campaign Desk, The News Frontier

  Bringing a Big Story Home at The Omaha World-Herald Local reporting in the age of wire copy

  By Lauren Kirchner

  Thu Jul 29 2010 04:09 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler

  Q & A: Nevada Political Journalist Jon Ralston “People just hate Harry Reid… They would vote for Charles Manson over Harry Reid.”

  By Joel Meares

  Thu Jul 29 2010 03:52 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Mercury News: Lobbyists As “Shadow Legislature” in CA A special report explains the “Sacramento version” of lawmaking

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  Thu Jul 29 2010 11:44 AM

• The Audit

  WSJ Looks at the Overdraft Bottom Feeders

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jul 29 2010 09:59 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Moody’s Market, Revolving Door, Tables Turned on Zuck

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jul 28 2010 07:13 PM

• The Audit

  Yglesias and McArdle Miss on Interchange Fees

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jul 28 2010 05:46 PM

• Campaign Desk, Transparency

  The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs From Brussels, to a bunker, to blockbusters

  By Clint Hendler

  Wed Jul 28 2010 02:18 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet And other findings from an Annenberg study

  By Lauren Kirchner

  Wed Jul 28 2010 02:12 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Apple’s Controlling Instincts Hit Time and SI

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jul 28 2010 01:57 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Democrats are hotter than Republicans, says The Hill

  By Joel Meares

  Wed Jul 28 2010 01:25 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit

  NYT Goes to the Numbers Economists’ analysis brings welcome data to stimulus debate

  By Holly Yeager

  Wed Jul 28 2010 12:42 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Bubble Boys The WikiLeaks documents put an underreported war back on the nation’s radar. It doesn’t matter that the pundits are yawning.

  By Joel Meares

  Wed Jul 28 2010 10:27 AM Comments (7)

• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis

  Kudos to The New York Times For revealing the contradictions in health and financial reform

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Jul 28 2010 10:16 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: GE Corruption, Poor Subsidizing the Rich, Takedown

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jul 27 2010 08:55 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Seven Top-Paid CEOs Lost Shareholders’ Money in the 2000s

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jul 27 2010 06:24 PM

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  Visualizing Data, Telling a Story Behind the scenes of The Guardian’s interactive WikiLeaks coverage

  By Lauren Kirchner

  Tue Jul 27 2010 05:08 PM

• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ’s Stimulus-Debate Story is Debatable A page-one piece says economists question whether stimulus makes things worse but can’t find any who actually do

  By Holly Yeager

  Tue Jul 27 2010 03:59 PM Comments (14)

• News Meeting

  Finding Stories in the WikiLeaks Material How should local and regional outlets cover the WikiLeaks material?

  By The Editors

  Tue Jul 27 2010 01:16 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Reuters Gets a Wall Street Take on Warren

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jul 27 2010 10:52 AM

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels The diamond thief’s tale sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was.

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  Tue Jul 27 2010 08:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Angelides; Goldman Sachs; Broke, Fat, and Stoned

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jul 26 2010 08:31 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Looking the Other Way on Wall Street NYT’s Morgenson reports that Wall Street knew that bundled loans didn’t meet standards

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jul 26 2010 05:54 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  On Tax-Cut Politics, WSJ Adds to the Confusion

  By Holly Yeager

  Mon Jul 26 2010 05:50 PM

• Campaign Desk

  WaPo, Time, and Others Play Catch-up on WikiLeaks What to do when you don’t get the exclusive

  By Joel Meares

  Mon Jul 26 2010 05:49 PM Comments (1)

• Language Corner

  For Giving How to know when ‘for’ needs an ‘e’

  By Merrill Perlman

  Mon Jul 26 2010 04:00 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  The Assange Leaks What’s new about the WikiLeaks data?

  By Joshua Foust

  Mon Jul 26 2010 03:18 PM Comments (5)

• Campaign Desk, The News Frontier

  Gaining Readers’ Confidence In the WikiLeaks Dump Part II: Verification

  By Lauren Kirchner

  Mon Jul 26 2010 03:03 PM

• Campaign Desk, The News Frontier

  How Three News Outlets Handled the WikiLeaks Dump Part I: online presentation

  By Lauren Kirchner

  Mon Jul 26 2010 01:43 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Same Docs, Different Stories The three outlets gifted by WikiLeaks take three different approaches

  By Joel Meares

  Mon Jul 26 2010 12:46 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  “The Word Was Polo; The Man, Ralph Lauren” Place those special sections, gleefully, in the recycle pile unread

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jul 26 2010 11:43 AM

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  British Tabloid Strikes Gossip Gold Online An argument for isolating print and Web newsrooms

  By Lauren Kirchner

  Mon Jul 26 2010 11:21 AM

• The Audit

  It’s Still Unclear Why Cassano Got Off the Hook

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jul 23 2010 06:16 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  The Un-federated Tea Party Caucus WaPo’s roundup of new caucus is funny, but misses a key point

  By Joel Meares

  Fri Jul 23 2010 04:43 PM

• The Observatory

  Chronicle Gives “Climategate” Probes Their Due Even wary journalists find little evidence of whitewash

  By Curtis Brainard

  Fri Jul 23 2010 03:23 PM Comments (8)

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  Climate Bill Blowout It’s a big deal. Where’s the print coverage?

  By Curtis Brainard

  Fri Jul 23 2010 03:00 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  NYT’s Rangel Work Gets Results on the Hill But rest of the press tries not to notice

  By Holly Yeager

  Fri Jul 23 2010 12:43 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  If a Correction Falls in the Woods… Slate’s pot-kettle-black takedown of Politico

  By Clint Hendler

  Fri Jul 23 2010 12:17 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  A Front-and-Center Corrections Policy TBD.com launches its policy before launching site

  By Craig Silverman

  Fri Jul 23 2010 11:15 AM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier, The Water Cooler

  Q & A: ABC News’s Paul Slavin The ABC News Digital senior vice-president talks about his new, spherical iPad app

  By Lauren Kirchner

  Fri Jul 23 2010 10:55 AM

• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis

  Paying Attention to Social Security Two takes from the MSM

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Fri Jul 23 2010 10:35 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Pretty-Penny Paywall, Booty, Fair Trade

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jul 22 2010 10:21 PM

• The Audit

  Bright Spots For the Times in Digital Revenue

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jul 22 2010 07:29 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  WaPo’s Chamber Piece Misses a Few Notes The paper reports the lobby group is “losing,” but doesn’t hear the ringing of cash registers

  By Holly Yeager

  Thu Jul 22 2010 03:58 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Guilt of an Expatriate Journalist American writer wrestles with free speech inequity and what to do about it

  By Justin D. Martin

  Thu Jul 22 2010 03:01 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ’s Good Coverage of Warren and the CFPB

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jul 22 2010 02:22 PM

• Campaign Desk

  What’s Secret in ‘Top Secret America?’ The Washington Post didn’t really tell us anything new

  By Joshua Foust

  Thu Jul 22 2010 10:34 AM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  Calling a Spade a Spade or a Fox a Fox The Times minces no words on the Sherrod story

  By Joel Meares

  Thu Jul 22 2010 10:25 AM Comments (23)

• Feature

  The Rise of Private News A niche model can make a lot of money. What are the costs?

  By Chrystia Freeland

  Thu Jul 22 2010 08:00 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  CNBC’s Dennis Kneale Goes Native Cultivating powerful sources at the expense of telling the story

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jul 21 2010 09:19 PM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Fannie/Freddie Already, Obama on Finreg, WaMu’s Valukas?

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jul 21 2010 08:20 PM

• Campaign Desk

  After the Storm How the Sherrod story came up in print

  By Joel Meares

  Wed Jul 21 2010 05:09 PM Comments (8)

• Campaign Desk

  “Top Secret” Co-Author under Fire, for Some Reason Politico fans the flames of lackluster Arkin “controversy”

  By Mark Greenbaum

  Wed Jul 21 2010 04:46 PM Comments (2)

• The News Frontier

  “Freemiums” and “Ambience”: the Future of Mobile Content? A paidContent conference recap

  By Lauren Kirchner

  Wed Jul 21 2010 04:13 PM

• Campaign Desk

  How do you know what a poll number is worth? After survey scandals, transparency’s the buzz word

  By Clint Hendler

  Wed Jul 21 2010 12:41 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis

  The Other Liz Liz Fowler and the WellPoint connection

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Jul 21 2010 11:44 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Surprise! Ratings Firms Nailed By Financial Reform

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jul 21 2010 09:55 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  The Economy and Politics, One More Time Do we need to worry about journalists overstating the economy’s role?

  By Greg Marx

  Wed Jul 21 2010 08:30 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Not-So-Sharp Claws, Eighty Cents, A+!

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jul 20 2010 08:10 PM

• The Observatory

  Stephen Schneider: Climate Communicator Remembering an esteemed scientist’s contributions to the media over three decades

  By Cristine Russell

  Tue Jul 20 2010 05:48 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Et Tu, WaPo? The Post’s weightless weigh-in on the Black Panthers coverage

  By Joel Meares

  Tue Jul 20 2010 04:35 PM Comments (7)