Monthly Archive

September 2009

• The Kicker

  India and Pakistan, Best of Buddies

  By Greg Marx

  September 30, 2009 04:14 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Journalism in the Heartland A shout out to the Kansas City Star and the Salina (Kan.) Journal

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 30, 2009 03:03 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Gasparino’s Gossip Column

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 30, 2009 02:41 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  David Brooks’s Afghanistan Straw Man

  By Greg Marx

  September 30, 2009 12:24 PM

• Campaign Desk

  An Open Debate on the Afghan War? A measure of dissent on the full counterinsurgency doctrine

  By Greg Marx

  September 30, 2009 12:23 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News, Michael Massing

  Eyes Wide Shut on Iran Familiar sources sing a tired song

  By Michael Massing

  September 30, 2009 11:10 AM Comments (4)

• The Kicker, Transparency

  FOIA Hearing Underway

  By Clint Hendler

  September 30, 2009 10:11 AM

• Behind the News

  Reality Bites More promotional ideas for The Washington Post

  By Justin Peters

  September 30, 2009 09:48 AM Comments (12)

• The Audit

  CQ Stomps Out Newsroom Dissent Setting a bad example by firing a veteran editor for impertinence

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 30, 2009 08:04 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker, Transparency

  Classification policy draft leaked

  By Clint Hendler

  September 29, 2009 04:44 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Going for the Gold Is Obama’s Olympic trip really a big political risk?

  By Greg Marx

  September 29, 2009 02:43 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  One Possible Contestant for the Post

  By Clint Hendler

  September 29, 2009 12:59 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  “Get off Their Asses and Get Back to Talking to Real People”

  By Megan Garber

  September 29, 2009 11:29 AM Comments (5)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Journal Edges to the Right

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 29, 2009 11:23 AM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  Talese: “The Magazine Piece Is Not a Work of Art Anymore”

  By Megan Garber

  September 29, 2009 10:15 AM

• Campaign Desk

  CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part V The view from the Italian festival, Scranton, Pa.

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 29, 2009 10:00 AM Comments (2)

• Feature

  Take a Stand How journalism can regain its relevance

  By Brent Cunningham

  September 29, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (13)

• The Kicker

  “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

  By Clint Hendler

  September 28, 2009 05:20 PM

• The Kicker

  “So, Keep Your Guns, and Buy More Guns…”

  By Megan Garber

  September 28, 2009 05:06 PM Comments (7)

• The Kicker

  Poll Lancing

  By Megan Garber

  September 28, 2009 04:39 PM

• The Kicker, The Observatory

  Green Rankings a Means, Not an End For Journalists

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 28, 2009 04:24 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Berlusconi and Press Freedom, Petition Edition

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 28, 2009 03:19 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WaPo: How the Fed Failed to Protect Consumers

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 28, 2009 03:18 PM

• The Kicker

  CBS goes GlobalPost-al

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 28, 2009 02:48 PM

• The News Frontier

  The Washington Post, Angsty Teenager The paper really, really wants to go to prom with you

  By Megan Garber

  September 28, 2009 02:34 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  On the NYT’s opinion media monitor

  By Greg Marx

  September 28, 2009 02:31 PM

• Language Corner

  Bodies in Motion How many objects are moving in a “collision”?

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 28, 2009 02:30 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Gang Land Entrepreneur

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 28, 2009 01:47 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Now Bloomberg Calls it an Obama Bull Market

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 28, 2009 12:49 PM

• The Audit

  Morgenson on a Mortgage Front

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 28, 2009 09:51 AM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  Two-Ply Puns

  By Megan Garber

  September 28, 2009 09:06 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Baucus Watch, Part XV What’s the senator hiding in his bill?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 27, 2009 03:19 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  William Safire, 1929-2009

  By Megan Garber

  September 27, 2009 02:41 PM

• The Observatory

  Are Americans Wild Enough? Ken Burns’s documentary and the debate over how much nature we need

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 25, 2009 06:20 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  The Prophet Motive Glenn Beck in an age of anxiety

  By Megan Garber

  September 25, 2009 06:11 PM Comments (9)

• The Kicker

  Lofty Living, On the Cheap

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 25, 2009 05:39 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  The Five W’s, Google, and You

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 25, 2009 05:27 PM Comments (2)

• The News Frontier, The Water Cooler

  Q & A: Jim Brady Guardian America's Web consultant on building audiences, brands, and a culture of innovation

  By Greg Marx

  September 25, 2009 04:27 PM

• The Kicker

  Speaking of Ahmadinejad … And Running Out Of Things To Say

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 25, 2009 04:25 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  More on Coupons and Credibility

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 25, 2009 02:56 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Ahmadinejad Gets His Morning News Bulletin

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 25, 2009 02:20 PM

• The Audit

  More Journalism Green Shoots

  By Dean Starkman

  September 25, 2009 12:28 PM

• Regret the Error

  Hed Injuries Sometimes it’s copy editors who have the last gaffe

  By Craig Silverman

  September 25, 2009 12:24 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Painting a Pretty Picture of Sewage

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 25, 2009 11:23 AM

• Campaign Desk

  A Dart to Health Affairs Policy journal jumps in bed with Aetna

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 25, 2009 10:52 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Survey Says … In Penny-Savers We Trust

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 25, 2009 10:33 AM Comments (4)

• The Kicker

  Starr Testimony to the JEC

  By Megan Garber

  September 25, 2009 10:15 AM

• The Audit

  Harper’s Long Miss on AIG

  By Dean Starkman

  September 25, 2009 09:20 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  James Grant’s Twaddle on Detroit

  By Dean Starkman

  September 25, 2009 08:38 AM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  Leonhardt’s Deft Med Mal Treatment

  By Dean Starkman

  September 24, 2009 03:25 PM

• The Kicker

  Of Headlines and (Oven) Feet

  By Megan Garber

  September 24, 2009 02:00 PM

• The Kicker

  Gettin’ Piggy with It: Anderson Cooper Edition

  By Megan Garber

  September 24, 2009 01:39 PM

• The Kicker

  You Mean Not Everybody Watches Cable News?

  By Greg Marx

  September 24, 2009 12:05 PM Comments (3)

• Page Views

  California Dreaming An era of "strange quietude" in the Golden State

  By Toby Warner

  September 24, 2009 12:00 PM

• The Kicker

  Glenn Beck; PoMoCon

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 24, 2009 11:30 AM

• The Kicker

  Total Ellipse of the Heart…

  By Megan Garber

  September 24, 2009 10:49 AM

• The Audit

  Bloomberg Further Hammers FDIC Credibility

  By Dean Starkman

  September 24, 2009 10:38 AM

• The Kicker

  Congressional Hearing: Newspapers and “the Impact on the Economy and Democracy”

  By Megan Garber

  September 24, 2009 10:00 AM

• The Audit

  Go to Queens Museum, Get Mad

  By Dean Starkman

  September 24, 2009 09:03 AM

• Feature, The Observatory

  The New Energy Beat It's global as well as local, environmental as well as financial. Can embattled newsrooms see the big picture?

  By Curtis Brainard and Cristine Russell

  September 24, 2009 12:00 AM

• The Observatory

  Sidebar: The New Energy Beat Our Web-only list of the energy sites journalists need to know

  By Curtis Brainard and Cristine Russell

  September 24, 2009 12:00 AM

• The Kicker

  For That Special Nerd in Your Life…

  By Megan Garber

  September 23, 2009 10:53 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Earnest Headline of the Day

  By Megan Garber

  September 23, 2009 10:25 PM

• The Kicker

  Deadline NYT

  By Megan Garber

  September 23, 2009 06:15 PM

• The Kicker

  …And the Book Would Weigh 1.2 Billion Pounds

  By Megan Garber

  September 23, 2009 04:35 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Baucus Watch, Part XIV The senator confronts the affordability question

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 23, 2009 04:33 PM Comments (6)

• The Kicker

  50 Ways to Spell ‘Quaddafi’

  By Megan Garber

  September 23, 2009 02:57 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  ‘I Went to Afghanistan, and All I Got Was This Lousy Swine Flu’

  By Megan Garber

  September 23, 2009 02:46 PM

• Behind the News, Michael Massing

  Katie and Diane: The Wrong Questions Why can't the print press treat TV news as news?

  By Michael Massing

  September 23, 2009 12:49 PM Comments (37)

• Behind the News

  Michael Massing Online Archive A complete archive of Michael Massing's columns for CJR.org

  By The Editors

  September 23, 2009 12:28 PM

• The Kicker, Transparency

  A New Obama Line on State Secrets?

  By Clint Hendler

  September 23, 2009 11:54 AM

• The Kicker

  McKinsey to Condé: 25 percent-ish

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 23, 2009 11:19 AM

• The Kicker

  Lede of the Day

  By Megan Garber

  September 23, 2009 10:45 AM

• The Audit

  Bloomberg Keeps Heat on FDIC

  By Dean Starkman

  September 23, 2009 10:30 AM

• The Audit

  Labor Gets a Word in Edgewise

  By Dean Starkman

  September 23, 2009 09:46 AM

• The Audit

  Muckraking 1, Banksters 0

  By Dean Starkman

  September 23, 2009 08:12 AM

• The Observatory

  Newsweek Ranks 500 Greenest Companies… But shills for Big Oil in the process

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 22, 2009 06:45 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  WSJ Correction: Allies Not “Roiled” After All

  By Dean Starkman

  September 22, 2009 06:00 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Q & A: Rick Perlstein The liberal historian on ACORN, the Post, and wagging the dog

  By Greg Marx

  September 22, 2009 05:52 PM Comments (50)

• Campaign Desk, Transparency

  Redacted: WaPo’s Unprecedented Deal with the Pentagon The McChrystal report: Who did the redacting?

  By Clint Hendler

  September 22, 2009 03:58 PM

• News Meeting

  Whose Line Is It, Anyway? When it comes to journalistic ethics, do definitions matter?

  By The Editors

  September 22, 2009 03:42 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  When a Tax Is a Tax The New York Times explains

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 22, 2009 12:19 PM

• The Kicker

  Spot.us, Now in Two Spots

  By Megan Garber

  September 22, 2009 12:00 PM

• The Kicker

  Clinton: “I Am Bitter about It”

  By Megan Garber

  September 22, 2009 09:54 AM

• The Audit

  O.C. Register Stays on IndyMac Madness

  By Dean Starkman

  September 22, 2009 09:19 AM

• Second Read

  Of Heroes and Humans Jim Brosnan wrote about himself, and sports writing evolved

  By Michael Shapiro

  September 22, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  McClatchy’s “Unconfirmed Reports” About Criminal Probes

  By Dean Starkman

  September 22, 2009 06:11 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Of FOX News and Catnip Alessandra Stanley's treatment of the Obama "snub" misses the point

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 21, 2009 07:07 PM Comments (1)

• Language Corner

  Lost Innocence People plead “not guilty”

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 21, 2009 05:42 PM

• The Kicker

  Wiki Fingers

  By Megan Garber

  September 21, 2009 04:00 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Craigslist vs. the Aggregators

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 21, 2009 03:44 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  Genachowski, the Journal, and Net Neutrality

  By Megan Garber

  September 21, 2009 03:10 PM

• The Kicker

  Barack Obama, Media Thinker

  By Megan Garber

  September 21, 2009 01:30 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Sixty-Six Pages

  By Megan Garber

  September 21, 2009 11:10 AM

• Behind the News

  Driving the Conversation NYT series examines texting, talking behind the wheel

  By Greg Marx

  September 21, 2009 10:50 AM

• The Audit

  The Observer Advances the Ball on BoA

  By Dean Starkman

  September 21, 2009 09:44 AM

• The Kicker

  Tom DeLay, Twinkle-toes

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 21, 2009 09:24 AM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  Waiting for the Angelides Commission

  By Dean Starkman

  September 21, 2009 08:00 AM

• Campaign Desk

  The President versus Stephanopoulos When is a tax not a tax?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 21, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Medical Homes? You’ve Got To Be Kidding The new health care dialect

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 20, 2009 11:58 AM Comments (6)

• Behind the News, Campaign Desk

  ACORN’s Family Tree Was the Baltimore video journalism? Does it matter?

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 18, 2009 05:44 PM Comments (24)

• The Audit

  Suggested Readings

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 18, 2009 05:30 PM

• The News Frontier, The Observatory

  MinnPost.com Launches “Science Agenda” Newcomer outlet picks up the slack left by MSM

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 18, 2009 04:43 PM

• Behind the News, Transparency

  Pinning Down the “Jackass” Tale A tweeted slip reveals a complicated arrangement

  By Clint Hendler

  September 18, 2009 04:20 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ: Hey, Readers—Your Jobs Aren’t That Important

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 18, 2009 03:45 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News, Campaign Desk

  Seeds of Discontent What does the ACORN story mean for the mainstream media?

  By Greg Marx

  September 18, 2009 03:31 PM Comments (17)

• The Kicker

  Happy Birthday, New York Times

  By Megan Garber

  September 18, 2009 02:00 PM Comments (4)

• Regret the Error, The News Frontier

  “A Big Chance to Win Back the Public’s Faith” MediaBugs’s Scott Rosenberg on error-correction in the digital age

  By Craig Silverman

  September 18, 2009 11:37 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Examining the Individual Mandate The Wall Street Journal takes a hard look in Massachusetts

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 18, 2009 11:26 AM

• The Kicker, Transparency

  Fight On, Bloomberg.

  By Clint Hendler

  September 18, 2009 10:48 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Pearlstein: Fundamental Reform for Credit Ratings

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 18, 2009 10:13 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Suggested Readings

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 17, 2009 06:37 PM

• The Audit

  Missing the Point on the Anglicization of the WSJ "Come a cropper" is the least of the paper's problems

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 17, 2009 05:17 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Investors vs. the Public Why the business press should focus on the latter

  By Dean Starkman

  September 17, 2009 05:02 PM Comments (1)

• The News Frontier, The Observatory

  Is Futurity the Future? Citing a lack of science coverage, universities launch their own “newswire”

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 17, 2009 04:52 PM Comments (5)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  “Learned, Baroque, and Quite Frequently Terrifying” The New Republic profiles the Financial Times's Martin Wolf

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 17, 2009 01:39 PM

• The Kicker

  In Which Chuck Todd Learns: Sebelius Is No One to Sneeze At

  By Megan Garber

  September 17, 2009 12:50 PM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  A WSJ Deal Column After The Audit’s Own Heart

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 17, 2009 10:23 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  West Side Story

  By Clint Hendler

  September 17, 2009 10:10 AM

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels News outlets in Connecticut grapple with a hostage crisis

  By Greg Marx

  September 17, 2009 09:42 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Suggested Readings

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 16, 2009 07:04 PM

• The Audit

  Anticipating Peter Goodman’s New Book

  By Dean Starkman

  September 16, 2009 05:53 PM

• The Kicker

  Hell Spawn with Pepper Jack

  By Megan Garber

  September 16, 2009 04:47 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Mint Makes a Mint But press coverage of the $170 million deal leaves a bad taste

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 16, 2009 04:11 PM

• The Kicker

  More on The Atlantic: Wire They Aggregating?

  By Megan Garber

  September 16, 2009 02:32 PM

• The Kicker

  Washington=Cool… Really?

  By Greg Marx

  September 16, 2009 01:11 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  Atlantic launches opinion aggregator site

  By Greg Marx

  September 16, 2009 11:51 AM

• The Kicker

  Mother’s Special Recipe

  By Clint Hendler

  September 16, 2009 11:29 AM

• The Kicker

  Arianna Huffington, Queen of All Media

  By Megan Garber

  September 16, 2009 11:27 AM

• The Observatory

  Science Needs a Storyline The question is not if, but how scientists should frame their research

  By Matt Nisbet, Dominique Brossard, Dietram Scheufele

  September 16, 2009 11:22 AM Comments (8)

• Page Views

  Out of Africa The raw and redemptive odyssey of a Burundian refugee

  By Gregory Beyer

  September 16, 2009 10:50 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Expert Takes on Overseas Elections

  By Greg Marx

  September 16, 2009 10:33 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Trade, “Buy American,” and the Journal

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 16, 2009 10:30 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Another Case for Bipartisanship

  By Greg Marx

  September 16, 2009 09:56 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VI The canary in the coal mine

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 16, 2009 09:54 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Brauchli: “Too Many People Call Our Newsroom”

  By Greg Marx

  September 15, 2009 07:08 PM

• The Kicker

  Forget 140 Characters, Try Just Six Words

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 15, 2009 05:01 PM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  WSJ Will Charge for Mobile Access

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 15, 2009 04:49 PM

• The Kicker

  More Thoughts on the Big Speech

  By Greg Marx

  September 15, 2009 03:28 PM

• Language Corner

  Times Up Is “three times more” the same as “three times as many”?

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 15, 2009 01:44 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  Cheech and Chong Aren’t Dead Yet Not everyone in the media is ready to take drug reform seriously

  By Greg Marx

  September 15, 2009 01:20 PM

• The Kicker

  A Culture of…Integration

  By Megan Garber

  September 15, 2009 01:02 PM

• News Meeting

  The Too-Fleet Tweet Should news organizations editorially monitor their employees' Twitter accounts?

  By The Editors

  September 15, 2009 12:16 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  Graphic Storytelling, Finger Paint-Style

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 15, 2009 11:36 AM

• The Kicker

  Flipping…Out?

  By Megan Garber

  September 15, 2009 11:34 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Bipartisanship Has Sailed Political consensus is not an unalloyed good

  By Greg Marx

  September 15, 2009 10:44 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Google Flips For Print Experience

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 15, 2009 10:30 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Press Hypes This Morning’s Retail Sales Numbers

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 15, 2009 10:21 AM

• The Kicker

  Government Claims That Should Perhaps Not Be Believed

  By Greg Marx

  September 15, 2009 09:50 AM

• The Kicker

  Of Twitter, Jackasses, Toothpaste and Tubes

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 15, 2009 09:16 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Rock Bottom Get stoked: the MSM are acting less childish about pot

  By David Downs

  September 15, 2009 09:00 AM Comments (3)

• Cover Story

  Disappearing Iraq After a period of openness that benefited both the military and the media, the door is closing

  By Jane Arraf

  September 15, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Anniversary Stories, Lehman Brothers, and Bloomberg

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 14, 2009 06:22 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Dancing With Political Operatives

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 14, 2009 06:06 PM

• The Kicker

  And Just Your Best Guess—Is the Earth Round? Or Is It Flat?

  By Greg Marx

  September 14, 2009 06:05 PM

• The Kicker

  Happy Anniversary, Financial Crisis

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 14, 2009 11:58 AM

• The Audit

  Why Alt Media Beat the MSM to the Mortgage Crisis They were tuned to a different audience

  By Alyssa Katz

  September 14, 2009 11:15 AM Comments (16)

• Behind the News

  Tea for Two…Million? FreedomWorks, Twitter, and the evolution of an error

  By Megan Garber

  September 14, 2009 10:55 AM Comments (26)

• Campaign Desk

  Who Will Be at the Table? Part XV The gun owners come out of the woodwork

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 14, 2009 10:42 AM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  Looking at BusinessWeek’s Prospects

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 14, 2009 10:39 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Measuring a Speech’s Success In speech reax stories, competing theories of politics

  By Greg Marx

  September 14, 2009 10:30 AM

• The Kicker

  Other Angles of the Health Care Story

  By Greg Marx

  September 14, 2009 10:20 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  BW Looks at Effectiveness of Proposed Reforms

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 11, 2009 05:35 PM

• The Observatory

  From Hudson to 9/11 Times smartly pairs two lower-Manhattan anniversaries

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 11, 2009 04:26 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  So Much for Ignoring Joe Wilson

  By Greg Marx

  September 11, 2009 03:33 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Joe Wilson’s War In praise of indecorous debate

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 11, 2009 03:01 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  New York Times to CNN: We’re better than you

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 11, 2009 02:52 PM

• The Kicker

  “Sept. 11: O’Donnell and Geist inspect ‘male model’ Louis’ hair”

  By Megan Garber

  September 11, 2009 02:27 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  CNN and the Case of the Missing Phone Call

  By Megan Garber

  September 11, 2009 01:59 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Examples of “Crankery” That Really Weren’t

  By Greg Marx

  September 11, 2009 01:40 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  The Graphic Explainer

  By Megan Garber

  September 11, 2009 01:30 PM

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

  Q & A: Financial Times CEO John Ridding How the Financial Times not only kept its readers, but even got them to pay

  By Diana Dellamere

  September 11, 2009 12:40 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part IV The view from Main Street, Columbia, Mo.

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 11, 2009 11:27 AM Comments (10)

• The Audit

  Lessons from “Sesame Street” PBS hits home with a look at the economic fallout on families

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 11, 2009 11:14 AM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  Michael Kinsley, Correctionaholic Don’t believe a word of Kinsley’s recent WaPo column

  By Craig Silverman

  September 11, 2009 11:13 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  “Nothing Short of a Declaration of War”

  By Megan Garber

  September 11, 2009 10:38 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  WSJ: Some Restaurant Won’t Take Cash Now

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 11, 2009 10:22 AM

• The Kicker

  #whereiwas

  By Megan Garber

  September 11, 2009 10:07 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Playing the Margins Politicians have good reason to avoid the details. Journalists don't.

  By Greg Marx

  September 10, 2009 04:42 PM

• The Kicker

  So is the “You Lie!” Guy a Liar?

  By Greg Marx

  September 10, 2009 03:56 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Wrongheaded and Incomplete on Incomes The Wall Street Journal, comforting the comfortable with selective data

  By David Cay Johnston

  September 10, 2009 03:07 PM Comments (12)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Times on a Real Estate Deal Gone (Deservedly) Bad

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 10, 2009 02:22 PM

• The Kicker

  More About Munadi

  By Greg Marx

  September 10, 2009 02:09 PM

• The Kicker

  John Stossel/Mother Ship

  By Megan Garber

  September 10, 2009 01:46 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  What Does “Urban Modern” Editing Look Like?

  By Greg Marx

  September 10, 2009 01:40 PM

• The Kicker

  Joe Wilson Is Your Preexisting Condition

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 10, 2009 01:38 PM Comments (71)

• Campaign Desk

  What Did the President Really Say? More goals and details and questions to ponder

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 10, 2009 12:52 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Reshuffling the Senate Strong Politico piece takes stock of Senate moves

  By Greg Marx

  September 10, 2009 12:34 PM

• The Kicker

  Sultan Munadi, RIP

  By Greg Marx

  September 10, 2009 10:42 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Barack Obama, Media Critic On Obama's remarks at the Cronkite memorial service

  By Greg Marx

  September 10, 2009 10:33 AM Comments (3)

• Behind the News, Campaign Desk

  Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington Dear news networks: ignore Joe Wilson. Please.

  By Megan Garber

  September 09, 2009 11:03 PM Comments (14)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ on the Prospects for Reform

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 09, 2009 05:48 PM

• The Observatory

  Research, Not Relations… Why scientists should leave communications to the pros

  By Earle Holland

  September 09, 2009 04:58 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Schooling the President In '91, Bush spoke, students listened, the Post snarked

  By Greg Marx

  September 09, 2009 04:56 PM

• Campaign Desk

  What a Speech Can’t Do The president thinks he can persuade people. He's probably wrong.

  By Greg Marx

  September 09, 2009 01:58 PM

• Language Corner

  All Wet When you read, you “pore,” not “pour”

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 09, 2009 12:52 PM

• The Kicker

  Twittering the Newsman’s Memorial

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 09, 2009 12:32 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Baucus Watch, Part XIII At last, the senator brings forth a plan

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 09, 2009 11:27 AM Comments (5)

• Feature

  Drudge Has Lost His Touch Technology, the competition, and the times have passed him

  By Ethan Porter

  September 09, 2009 11:25 AM Comments (21)

• The Kicker

  Death Panel, DNR

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 09, 2009 11:10 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Where Have All the Health Reform Goals Gone? What will Obama articulate tonight?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 09, 2009 10:09 AM

• Cover Story

  Too Close for Comfort? Tom Ricks and the military's new philosophical embeds

  By Tara McKelvey

  September 09, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (11)

• Editorial

  Truth? Yes, Sir! Why we need a clearer view of both our wars

  By The Editors

  September 09, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Times Takes on Overdraft “Protection”

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 09, 2009 07:00 AM

• The Audit

  Somebody Else (!) Takes on the Murdoch Journal

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 08, 2009 05:31 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Plagiarism Follies at the Courant TribCo unit fumbles a scandal

  By Dean Starkman

  September 08, 2009 03:53 PM Comments (11)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Unlearned Lessons of Lehman, a Year Later

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 08, 2009 03:26 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Stuck with the Senate Why it makes sense for Obama to focus on the upper house

  By Greg Marx

  September 08, 2009 02:15 PM

• The Kicker

  Connect the dots

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 08, 2009 02:15 PM

• The Kicker

  Listening to Legislation

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 08, 2009 01:20 PM

• The Kicker

  Raking the Muck

  By Megan Garber

  September 08, 2009 12:53 PM

• The Kicker

  School Lessons from Obama

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 08, 2009 11:06 AM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part III The view from Wal-Mart, Honesdale, Pa.

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 08, 2009 11:05 AM Comments (5)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News A new series from CJR

  By The Editors

  September 08, 2009 10:40 AM Comments (2)

• The News Frontier

  In Conversation Megan Garber and Justin Peters talk about the news, the Internet, and the convergence of the two

  By Megan Garber and Justin Peters

  September 08, 2009 10:37 AM Comments (3)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  Common Knowledge Communal news in a fragmented world

  By Megan Garber

  September 08, 2009 10:32 AM

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  Something to Talk About The Internet as a communications tool

  By Justin Peters

  September 08, 2009 10:31 AM Comments (6)

• The News Frontier

  Something to Talk About: Further Reading

  By Justin Peters

  September 08, 2009 10:30 AM

• The News Frontier

  Common Knowledge: Further Reading

  By Megan Garber

  September 08, 2009 10:30 AM

• The News Frontier

  Press Forward Links to every entry in CJR's Press Forward: Dialogues on the Future of News series

  By The Editors

  September 08, 2009 10:30 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Shout-outs to the Kansas City Star and Kaiser News Service For starting to fill in the blanks on health reform

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 08, 2009 10:24 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ on a New Chamber of Commerce Campaign

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 08, 2009 10:08 AM

• The Kicker

  The Health Care Debate: A Resource for Journalists

  By The Editors

  September 04, 2009 05:02 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk, Transparency

  White House Promises to Reveal Visitor Logs But vague exemptions could undercut disclosure

  By Clint Hendler

  September 04, 2009 04:46 PM Comments (5)

• The Audit

  More on Print and Online Reader Revenue

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 04, 2009 04:23 PM Comments (7)

• Behind the News

  Michael Kinsley vs. Factual Accuracy WaPo columnist slams the Times's "schoolmarmish" corrections column

  By Lester Feder

  September 04, 2009 02:14 PM Comments (6)

• Campaign Desk

  Silver Buckshot Misses Target Fact-checking Biden's Stimulus Speech

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 04, 2009 12:13 PM

• The Observatory

  EPA Targets Major Emitters Journal sees an admission that limiting carbon will be costly

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 04, 2009 11:41 AM

• The Kicker

  Sex, Newspapers and Defamation, Italian-style

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 04, 2009 11:21 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part II The view from the heartland—the patients

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 04, 2009 11:09 AM Comments (7)

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  Spoiling the Broth When recipes get it wrong

  By Craig Silverman

  September 04, 2009 10:35 AM

• The Kicker, Transparency

  Whose photo is it?

  By Clint Hendler

  September 04, 2009 10:32 AM Comments (49)

• The Audit

  Unemployment (Still) Worse Than You Think

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 04, 2009 09:53 AM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  Throwing Spitz Balls at The Post

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 03, 2009 07:03 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Good Dose of Common Sense Heard on the Street

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 03, 2009 06:02 PM

• Behind the News

  Local Flavor Philadelphia newspapers launch "keep it local" campaign

  By Daniel Denvir

  September 03, 2009 03:23 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Calculating the Benefits of Cash for Clunkers

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 03, 2009 01:24 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  “Which Is Presented as an Essay By [Levi] Johnston…”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 03, 2009 10:43 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ’s Wessel on the Deficit and Taxing the Rich

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 03, 2009 10:25 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Farewell, Kind Uncle Charlie

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 03, 2009 09:50 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Dominick Dunne, Done Celebrity journalism matters, sometimes

  By Daniel Luzer

  September 03, 2009 07:00 AM Comments (12)

• The Kicker

  “If Michael Jackson Hadn’t Died…”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 02, 2009 03:52 PM

• Campaign Desk, Transparency

  How To Keep Secrets Obama tries to get classification right

  By Clint Hendler

  September 02, 2009 12:41 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Advice for Diane Sawyer

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 02, 2009 12:13 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Ling and Lee on Their Detention in N. Korea

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 02, 2009 11:16 AM

• Campaign Desk

  The Op-Ed No One Wanted Canada’s corpse-strewn landscape?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 02, 2009 10:31 AM Comments (13)

• The Audit

  Calculating the Clunkers’ Real Cost to Taxpayers

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 02, 2009 10:06 AM Comments (4)

• The Kicker

  “Free-For-All Internet Media Culture” is a Euphemism For…

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 02, 2009 09:50 AM

• Behind the News, Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis

  Mob Mentality The Times’s mafia-and-the-stimulus angle? Whacked.

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 02, 2009 08:00 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Today’s Number 1 and Number 2 Headlines…

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 01, 2009 04:46 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The FT on the Bloat in Banking

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 01, 2009 03:57 PM

• The Kicker

  Breaking: Bernie Madoff’s Beach House Has (Ew!) “Formica Countertops”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 01, 2009 01:59 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Lazy Summer Musings from the WSJ D.C. Bureau

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 01, 2009 01:36 PM

• The Kicker

  DePaul U. Delivers On McSweeney’s “Internet-Age Writing Syllabus?”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 01, 2009 11:58 AM

• The Kicker

  WaPo Develops Visual Commenting System

  By Megan Garber

  September 01, 2009 11:21 AM

• The Kicker

  “The Strangulation of the Sri Lankan Press”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 01, 2009 10:55 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  When Kennedy Didn’t Compromise Lessons from the senator’s early health reform failure

  By Cristine Russell

  September 01, 2009 10:17 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Sex on Skates Newsstands

  By Megan Garber

  September 01, 2009 09:07 AM

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