Controversy at “Fox News North”

An “unfortunate episode” at Canada’s Sun News Network

By Craig Silverman   Apr 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM

Imagine for a moment that we’re in the middle of a presidential election. Now imagine that late in the campaign... More

What Washington Does All Day

HuffPo with a terrific story on the obscure interchange battle and its meaning

By Dean Starkman   Apr 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM

David Brooks says correctly that not enough Washington reporters break away from the pack and report on how the... More

When No One Cared About Moody’s and S&P’s Opinions

They operated on a journalism model, and no one listened

By Dean Starkman   Apr 28, 2011 at 02:24 PM

Does it rankle you that when S&P or Moody's issues a credit warning on, say, Japanese debt, not to mention... More

Critics Slam PBS, NYT Autism Reports

Mnookin: “A reckless and irresponsible coda to Robert MacNeil’s career”

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM

A PBS Newshour series about autism that drew former host Robert MacNeil back to the show for the first time... More

“The News Was That It Happened”

Bernanke presser was good and right

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 05:40 PM

I wish that was an original thought, but Randall Forsyth of Barron's made the apt observation on the post-game... More

The Royals Ban Satirical Coverage of Kate and Wills’ Big Day

A video feed rule change and CJR’s call for a royal boycott

By Joel Meares   Apr 27, 2011 at 02:38 PM

Finally, CJR finds a Royal Wedding angle. It comes to us all the way from Sydney, Australia, where the national... More

A Missing Medicare Link from The New York Times

Covering Medicare, Part II

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM

Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More

Flashback: Couric’s Evening News Debut, Reviewed

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM

Yesterday, Katie Couric confirmed that she will soon depart as anchor of CBS Evening News in pursuit of a gig... More

Ask Bernanke About This, Too

Depression-era levels of black unemployment in some cities, well-documented in HuffPo

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM

This morning's strong Huffington Post piece on black-unemployment is a useful clip to print out and carry to the... More

Whither Twitter?

By Dean Starkman   Apr 27, 2011 at 08:44 AM

What does it mean if Mark Zuckerberg doesn't obsess about you anymore? Fortune's story from last week on Twitter's... More

Decision 2012 Mad Libs

Our campaign coverage will (be tough but fair; appear on alternate Tuesdays; take its cues from ‘Doonesbury’)

By Steve Daley   Apr 26, 2011 at 01:21 PM

To: All Hands From: The Political Editor Re: Decision 2012 - Our Election Coverage It seems like only yesterday that... More

What Are America’s Most Essential Magazines?

Help CJR create an alternative to AdWeek’s “Hot List”

By The Editors   Apr 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM

Michael Wolff’s revamped AdWeek published its thirty-first annual “Hot List” yesterday—its ranking of the top ten magazines of the moment.... More

AP and Guild Reach Tentative Deal

Wait to see if workers agree on 401(k)-style pension plan

By Joel Meares   Apr 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM

A little slow getting to this, but as of Friday the Associated Press and the News Media Guild, which represents... More

LAT Surveys “Parallel, Opaque System of Political Giving”

If companies don’t disclose, nobody knows

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 26, 2011 at 11:20 AM

A tip of the hat to the Los Angeles Times for spending six months surveying the political spending disclosure practices... More

National Geographic Taking the Wheel at Scienceblogs.com

Report of merger prompts campfire history tale on Twitter

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM

“My baby's all grown up,” mused Christopher Mims, retweeting an unconfirmed announcement posted nineteen minutes earlier that Scienceblogs.com, the site... More

Ohio’s Lost Decade

Dayton paper shines light on a devastating job and income losses.

By Dean Starkman   Apr 25, 2011 at 05:52 PM

Look what's happened to payrolls in Montgomery County, Ohio, in the last decade: Annual private payrolls dropped about $3... More

CJR Holds a Town Hall in Philly

Shoppers on Market Street sound off

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 25, 2011 at 01:48 PM

Finding myself in Philadelphia recently, I decided to stroll along Market Street and see which of the day’s big political... More

The Guantánamo Files

A roundup of the latest WikiLeaks dump

By Joel Meares   Apr 25, 2011 at 01:11 PM

A cache of 759 files leaked by WikiLeaks to ten news partners—and subsequently leaked to three non-partner outlets—is the fourth... More

Balance Due

A change because of usage

By Merrill Perlman   Apr 25, 2011 at 12:53 PM

Some grammar battles have been fought for years, and many have been lost. (See “hopefully.”) Here’s another one over the... More

Securities Star Chambers

By Dean Starkman   Apr 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM

Gretchen Morgenson sees hope in a recent arbitration case that, incredibly, found in favor of actual human beings against... More

CJR Rewind: Prisoner 345

What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj

By Rachel Morris   Apr 25, 2011 at 11:24 AM

This article originally ran in CJR's July/August 2007 issue. On December 15, 2001, early in the morning on the last... More

The WSJ Editorial Board Whiffs on Taxes

Bad math plus hypocrisy on deficits equals Review & Outlook

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 04:22 PM

The New Republic's Jonathan Chait and Columbia's Jeffrey Sachs rip into the Wall Street Journal editorial page for making some... More

Mixed Grades for Medical Coverage

Analysis of nearly 1,500 articles over five years finds pluses and minuses

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 22, 2011 at 12:29 PM

A review of nearly 1,500 health-medical articles over the last five years has found that while journalists are nailing a... More

Follow the Money Leads On the Iowa AG

While the press follows on a campaign-cash story

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM

The National Institute on Money in State Politics's Follow The Money site reports on how campaign donations from the financial... More

Reynolds Wrap-Up

A day of discussion on digital authenticity and news literacy

By Craig Silverman   Apr 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM

On Monday morning I found myself on a bus in Columbia, Missouri heading to the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the... More

Michelle Malkin vs. Reality

Copying Betty White

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 22, 2011 at 11:19 AM

Readers of Investor’s Business Daily were treated to an op-ed recently by columnist Michelle Malkin, who was apparently making a... More

One Year After the Spill…

…BP campaign contributions no longer “toxic”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 22, 2011 at 09:49 AM

A year, more or less, is apparently how much time had to pass after the massive BP oil spill in... More

WSJ Goes Page One With Another Gold “Record”

But in real terms the price is more than a third below its peak three decades ago

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 22, 2011 at 03:09 AM

It's time for another round of hyped and misleading "gold hits a record" stories. Gold closed at $1,500 for the... More

Big Companies and Jobs, Then and Now

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 10:46 PM

New York's Andre Tartar has a intriguing post on the biggest American corporations and how much their employment levels have... More

Testing the Truth-o-Meter

PolitiFact’s editor on those fiery pants

By Joel Meares   Apr 21, 2011 at 06:05 PM

I never thought I’d hear a grown man say he was “comfortable that ‘pants on fire’ was the right... More

Chris Hondros: How He Got that Picture

From CJR’s Covering Iraq oral history

By The Editors   Apr 21, 2011 at 02:14 PM

As the world knows by now, the photographers Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed on April 20 in Misurata,... More

Lebanon and the Power of the Press

Media freedoms make nations more stable, not less

By Justin D. Martin   Apr 21, 2011 at 02:05 PM

BEIRUT—Lebanon spoils the myth that press restrictions are essential to maintaining a delicate security balance. This country was practically structured... More

Tributes from Colleagues to Killed War Photographers

By Joel Meares   Apr 21, 2011 at 10:36 AM

With the news that documentarian and photographer Tim Hetherington died yesterday in Libya, and, later, the confirmation that photographer... More

Cries For Help From Wall Street

Tie our hands before we strike again

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 08:31 AM

Financial Times columnist John Gapper had a good piece in New York a couple of weeks back about the psychology... More

Audit Notes: Financial Fraud and the Economy, TBTF Debts, Health Care

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM

Mike Konczal has some good thoughts on the Levin-Coburn Report, financial fraud, and ProPublica's Pulitzer win for their Wall Street... More

Barron’s On a Deadly Russian Tax Heist

Bureaucrats and thugs laundered hundreds of millions through Credit Suisse

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2011 at 06:49 PM

Bill Alpert has a must-read story in Barron's this week—a wild tale of overt Russian corruption involving a $230 million... More

Misinformation On Killed and Injured Photographers

Sad news brings a lesson on caution

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 03:59 PM

There has been much confusion in the wake of reports that documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed today in... More

Chris Christie’s Corporate Welfare

A $102 million tax break for a Japanese company to stay in New Jersey

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 20, 2011 at 01:46 PM

Chris Christie is a hero to the right and something of a media darling for his willingness to slash government... More

HuffPo Strong on North Carolina Benefits Expiring

Arthur Delaney’s solid unemployment reporting

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 01:08 PM

The Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney has been doing some solid work following an important unemployment and budget story out... More

Be a Pulitzer Judge

To which finalist would you give the Breaking News prize?

By The Editors   Apr 20, 2011 at 12:35 PM

On Monday, the Pulitzer Prize Board handed out awards in 13 out of 14 categories for journalism. No award was... More

Presidential “Outburst” Much Ado About Nothing

But Obama could have offered alternative critique

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM

The magical algorithms that rank the importance and popularity of the day’s political stories at the website Memeorandum had... More

Trillin on Texas and The New Yorker: A CJR Podcast

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 20, 2011 at 10:32 AM

In CJR's latest podcast, staff writer Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new... More

Q&A: Calvin Trillin

“I think journalists make a mistake writing about more than one person at a time”

By Michael Meyer   Apr 20, 2011 at 10:14 AM

Trillin on Texas | by Calvin Trillin | University of Texas Press | 184 pages, $22.00 Last month, long-time New... More

Chipping Away at Health Reform, Part II

Ron Wyden’s lost program

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM

Throughout the health care debate, Oregon senator Ron Wyden worried whether Americans who will be required to buy health insurance... More

Audit Notes: Sorkin Hits Goldman, Agape at Capes, Preemption Doctrine

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 08:36 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin gets just about as close to saying "Goldman Sachs lied to Congress" as you're going to see.... More

The Miami Herald Gets Creative on the Bum Economy

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 07:09 PM

It's sometimes hard to find new angles on a story like the bum economy, which has been an ongoing story... More

My Birthday The Day Daddy Won a Pulitzer

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 19, 2011 at 03:05 PM

Yesterday, the Boston Globe's Sebastian Smee won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, cited for his “vivid and exuberant writing about... More

That Giant Sucking Sound

WSJ: Big companies shed millions of jobs in 2000s while adding millions abroad

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 19, 2011 at 03:03 PM

The Wall Street Journal has your chart of the day. It shows that U.S.-based multinational corporations added 2.4 million workers... More

The Pulitzers and The Wall Street Journal

Where to find the big one

By Dean Starkman   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:40 AM

Reading The Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series on Internet (un)privacy last year, I thought, this has “Pulitzer” written... More

James O’Keefe’s Bizarre (and brilliant?) Landrieu Dance

By Joel Meares   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM

Say what you will about James O’Keefe, the videographer and self-described journalist famous for his ACORN and NPR stings,... More

Uncivil Wars

The president should be more civil, whatever that means

By Joel Meares   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:25 AM

With Wednesday’s deficit speech and Thursday night’s leaked comments about “sneak”-ing through agendas and Paul Ryan not being “on... More

ProPublica and How to Support Investigative Journalism

By Felix Salmon   Apr 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM

Paul Steiger is rightly proud of his latest Pulitzer -- the second for ProPublica in as many years. He's right,... More

WSJ Column Raises Ethics Issues

By Felix Salmon   Apr 19, 2011 at 10:40 AM

Last week, Ira Stoll took issue with Dennis Berman's column on SharesPost and SecondMarket, on the grounds that Berman lied... More

Chipping Away at Health Reform

Some not-so-great news for consumers

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 19, 2011 at 09:47 AM

The health reform law, aka the Affordable Care Act, took a hit last week. Many journos, though, were apparently snoozing.... More

CU-Boulder to Shutter J-School

Journalism education remains a priority, administrators claim

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 19, 2011 at 09:30 AM

The University of Colorado’s Board of Regents voted last week to close the journalism school at its Boulder campus, marking... More

Paying Off

Magazine Q&A full, May/June 2011

By Justin Peters   Apr 19, 2011 at 09:29 AM

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The Story so Far

Grueskin/Seave report

By Justin Peters   Apr 19, 2011 at 09:29 AM

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Audit Notes: Pulitzer Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2011 at 08:30 PM

The financial crisis is now more than three years old, but up to now there had been no Pulitzer Prize... More

Just Among Us…

Betwixt “between”

By Merrill Perlman   Apr 18, 2011 at 04:42 PM

Rules tell us what to do, and require no thought. Stop at a red light, or risk getting a ticket.... More

Newspaper Turnaround Stories

Give credit to the creditors and the courts before the CEOs

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 18, 2011 at 04:24 PM

David Carr takes a look today at the fortunes of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which have stopped plummeting at least... More

Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced—and the Journal’s One of Them

By Joel Meares   Apr 18, 2011 at 03:31 PM

The Wall Street Journal has won its first Pulitzer since Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 2007. The award... More

Audit Notes: AP Spill, Reporting on Your Parent, Bloomberg Babies

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 04:21 PM

This Associated Press story had me scratching my head. It says Citgo spilled 265,000 barrels of oil in the Delaware... More

Skimpy Coverage of Levin-Coburn Report From WSJ, NYT

McClatchy, The Huffington Post, and Bloomberg are much better

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 01:33 PM

If you're looking for second-day coverage of the Levin-Coburn report in The Wall Street Journal or New York Times—as I... More

Journalism Festival on Small Outlets with Big Impact

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM

The fifth annual International Journalism Festival continued on Friday in Perugia, Italy, and CJR’s managing web editor Justin Peters is,... More

How Wall Street Elites Read the Business Press

What a story says depends on who exactly is reading it

By Felix Salmon   Apr 15, 2011 at 12:02 PM

The Picard complaint against JPMorgan, accusing the bank of being “at the very center “of the Madoff fraud, “and thoroughly... More

The Most Amazing Corporate Press Release in History

Fisking the Yes Men’s fake GE press release

By Craig Silverman   Apr 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM

The last time the media fell for a Yes Men-affiliated hoax press release, it inspired a discussion about speed versus... More

California Watch is Watching

Investigation reveals lax oversight of seismic standards in schools

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 15, 2011 at 10:30 AM

California Watch’s Corey Johnson was scanning the website of the state architect’s office one evening in December 2009 when he... More

Audit Notes: HuffPo Shines, Libor Lineup, An FT Slip

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 15, 2011 at 12:54 AM

I don't know about you, but the best news story I read today on the Levin-Coburn Report wasn't in the... More

The Levin-Coburn Report Coverage

The WSJ and NYT whiff on possible Goldman Sachs criminal referrals

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2011 at 05:50 PM

There's all kinds of stuff to chew on in the new Levin-Coburn report, which looks like the toughest such report... More

A Damning NYT Investigation Into Justice Wall Street Style

Bankers skate as regulators and prosecutors protect financial interests above all else

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 14, 2011 at 01:44 PM

The New York Times has the story of the week, a superb investigation into why there haven't been prosecutions on... More

Conservatives Get Colorful on Obama’s Deficit Speech

More subdued libs are mostly pleased

By Joel Meares   Apr 14, 2011 at 01:11 PM

The president’s speech yesterday was notable to my ears for two things: the surprisingly direct attack on Rep. Paul... More

Journalism Festival Addresses Paywalls and Engagement

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM

This week, Perugia, Italy hosts the fifth annual International Journalism Festival, a free, week-long gathering of writers, editors, hackers, academics,... More

Missed Correction: Times slow to fix H.I.V. budget error

By Joel Meares   Apr 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM

Is the Times saving a budget correction for a rainy day? In a strongly worded editorial published in Wednesday’s paper,... More

Audit Notes: Main Street Corp., The Do-Nothing Deficit Fix, Hugh Grant

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2011 at 09:15 PM

The Wall Street Journal runs a banner headline across the top of page one that says: Risk Rule Riles Main... More

Banana Republic

Alt-weekly and mainstream exposés on how the richest Americans game the tax system

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2011 at 07:08 PM

David Cay Johnston has a fantastic piece out on "9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes"... More

The AP Falls For a Bogus Press Release

No excuse for that silly mistake but points for cleaning up the mess

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2011 at 01:59 PM

Henry Blodget wants to know if we're going to blast the Associated Press for falling for a hoax press release... More

Anatomy of a Journalist

Janet Malcolm dissects a murder trial, and her own profession

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 13, 2011 at 01:15 PM

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial | by Janet Malcolm | Yale University Press | 168 pages,... More

Two Non-Plans for the Deficit

Slate and Times op-eds suggest Obama slack off

By Joel Meares   Apr 13, 2011 at 01:13 PM

Relatively vague previews of the president’s big deficit speech today suggest he will tout cuts to Medicare, limits on... More

Hugh Grant’s Latest Role: Foppish Muckraker

By Joel Meares   Apr 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM

Floppy-haired charmer Hugh Grant turns his hand to journalism in the latest issue of English left-leaner The New Statesman. The... More

AP Staffers Picket Bureaus Across The Country (UPDATED)

Frustrations on the rise over pension impasse

By Joel Meares   Apr 13, 2011 at 08:09 AM

AP staffers in thirty-nine bureaus across the country picketed outside their bureau offices early this week, pressuring the news wire... More

Health Care in the Real World

A lesson for the fuzzy-headed bureaucrats—and for the press

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 13, 2011 at 07:11 AM

Steve Luxenberg, an associate editor at The Washington Post, gives a different twist on covering high-deductible health plans, that new... More

Audit Notes: Perk Up, Core Inflation, What Passes for News

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 12, 2011 at 07:49 PM

USA Today takes a long look at CEO perks, but it doesn't do a good job of prioritizing the really... More

Taibbi on a Fed Bailout the Business Press Buried

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 12, 2011 at 02:11 PM

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone zeroes in on an interesting detail from the Federal Reserve's bailouts: The Fed lent big... More

HuffPo, AOL Face Class-Action Lawsuit

Do unpaid bloggers have a case? Or, even, your empathy?

By The Editors   Apr 12, 2011 at 01:34 PM

Upon the sale of The Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million in February, CJR's Lauren Kirchner recalled that AOL... More

A Ridiculous Take on the Mortgage Settlement

By Felix Salmon   Apr 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM

Cheyenne Hopkins of American Banker, who first published the terms of the proposed mortgage servicer settlement in March, has now... More

A Vulture Fund Sob Story

By Felix Salmon   Apr 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM

Matt Wirz probably can’t be held responsible for the headline the WSJ put on his story today — “For Vultures,... More

Boing!

Springing to the past

By Merrill Perlman   Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31 AM

Spring has sprung The grass is riz; I wonder where the birdies is. That little ditty, or variations of it,... More

LAT on the U.S. As Low-Wage Offshoring Destination

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2011 at 07:54 PM

Where does Ikea build a plant when it wants to offshore work to pay poverty wages, bust unions, force mandatory... More

What’s With Karl Rove’s Wiki?

Salon explains while NYT doesn’t finish its thought

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 11, 2011 at 02:38 PM

Wikicountablity.org is not Karl Rove's wiki, photos of Karl Rove accompanying the New York Times's two Wikicountability stories (and my... More

NYT Eyes a Conflict of Interest at JPMorgan

The bank made a couple billion dollars as its clients lost their shirts

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 11, 2011 at 01:58 PM

The New York Times looks at a lawsuit over conflicts of interest at JPMorgan and how the bank covered its... More

Q&A with NPR Ombudswoman Alicia Shepard (UPDATED)

“This is really the first time in NPR’s grown-up history that it’s been under siege.”

By Joel Meares   Apr 11, 2011 at 01:22 PM

When Alicia Shepard became NPR’s ombudswoman in October 2007, she knew there would be challenges—public broadcasters are always going... More

A Good Social Security Story—At Last

Reuters shows it can be done

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM

Last week Reuters sent out a fine piece by Emily Kaiser that helped readers understand what the Social Security fight... More

Audit Notes: Race to the Bottom, More Corporate Welfare, Money Is Fungible

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 06:47 PM

The New York Times is good to take a look at how neighboring states race to the bottom bidding to... More

HuffPost: An SEC Wrist Slap for Fleecing an Indian Tribe (UPDATED)

Wachovia dinged with a small settlement, and no individuals are charged

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 05:15 PM

Good for The Huffington Post's Shahien Nasiripour for giving us a closer look at Wachovia's settlement for defrauding an Indian... More

Coked Up

A review of Luca Rastello’s I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons

By Clancy Martin   Apr 8, 2011 at 02:15 PM

I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons by Luca Rastello, translated by... More

The Problem with Covering Polls

Daily Caller mistakes opinion for fact

By Ben Adler   Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 PM

Thursday afternoon, Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson tweeted the link to a story on his website, saying "and the poor... More

Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account?

Meet Andy Carvin, verification machine

By Craig Silverman   Apr 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM

Yesterday morning NPR’s Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world’s best Twitter accounts to explain what... More

Covering Medicare Archive

A complete archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Covering Medicare” articles

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 8, 2011 at 12:01 PM

This is an archive of Trudy Lieberman's "Covering Medicare" articles, presented in descending order. 08/15/12: Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond:... More

The Importance of Energy Reporters

A Q&A with the NYT’s Matthew Wald about Japan’s nuclear crisis

By Cristine Russell   Apr 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has underscored the importance of specialized energy reporters. Unfortunately,... More

Audit Notes: What SF’s Missing, Post on Waters, Palin Prediction

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 01:29 AM

SF Weekly's Matt Smith reports on a new project that's well worth watching—one that will investigate the impact of the... More

Becky Quick Thinks the Fed Is Too Focused on Jobs

That makes no sense historically or in the current context

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM

CNBC's Becky Quick uses her Fortune column to argue that the Federal Reserve should break the law. The law says... More

Covering Medicare, Part I

A mixed performance from the press

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 7, 2011 at 04:07 PM

Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. Without... More

Department of Thin Skin

Toobin: Don’t “blame journalists”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 7, 2011 at 03:56 PM

Jeffrey Toobin has a column in the current New Yorker in which he discusses the current Supreme Court's "revolution in... More

Bercovici Is Wrong on “Journalism 2.0” Causing Afghan Murders

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 7, 2011 at 03:36 PM

Forbes's Jeff Bercovici would like you to know that those UN workers murdered in Afghanistan after a Florida Koran-burning were... More

Politico’s David Rogers Owning the Budget Beat

First stop in following the negotiations

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 01:41 PM

Is there anyone doing as good a job tracking federal budget negotiations as Politico’s David Rogers? The man’s been a... More

Glenn Beck Going Back to Silversmithing?

Beck explains why he’s jumping off the horse

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM

First: a confession. I have not been a particularly diligent media reporter where Glenn Beck is concerned. In fact,... More

ProPublica and Fortune’s Unhelpful Post on GE’s Taxes

Taking the company’s word for it to rebut The New York Times

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM

Fortune's Allan Sloan and ProPublica's Jeff Gerth asserted a couple of days ago that The New York Times got it... More

Japan’s Other Environmental Woes

The Wall Street Journal breaks from the pack with article on non-nuclear fallout

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM

The Wall Street Journal distinguished itself on Monday with an article that examined some of the non-nuclear environmental impacts... More

New York Has Clarity on the Ryan Budget

By Joel Meares   Apr 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM

A quick thank you to Dan Amira of New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, who has published just the... More

Audit Notes: BizWeek Soars, Barofsky in Fortune, A Picture of Deflation

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2011 at 08:17 PM

It's been more than a year now since Bloomberg took over BusinessWeek, rebranded it, expanded it, and put Josh Tyrangiel... More

A Little Healthy Outrage on Executive Pay

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 6, 2011 at 02:16 PM

Roger Lowenstein had an excellent Bloomberg column a couple of weeks ago on outlandish executive compensation. Unfortunately, it got one... More

“Don’t Call it a Paywall”

A panel discussion with NYT’s Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Janet Robinson

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM

On Tuesday night, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and New York Times Company president and CEO Janet Robinson... More

Out of Style

The writers of @FakeAPStylebook transfer Twitter to the printed page

By Megan Garber   Apr 6, 2011 at 11:33 AM

Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide | by The Bureau Chiefs | Three Rivers Press | 272 pages, $13.00... More

60 Minutes With a Good Look at the Foreclosure Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2011 at 07:45 PM

Hats off to 60 Minutes and Scott Pelley for taking a nice look at the foreclosure scandal on Sunday. Pelley... More

Reporting on High-Deductible Plans

A shout-out to two in the MSM

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 5, 2011 at 03:24 PM

A tip of the topper to two reporters who took a good look at high-deductible health plans—the kind that can... More

The Climate Context in Japan

Crisis tests media’s ability to frame nuclear debate in a world beset by energy risks

By James Fahn   Apr 5, 2011 at 02:56 PM

When I was a young journalist working as the environment editor for a Thai newspaper back in the 1990s, one... More

A Triangle Shirtwaist-Like Disaster, Buried By the U.S. Press

Outsourcing tragedies while paying a sliver of what our workers made 100 years ago

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 5, 2011 at 02:11 PM

The Consumerist has a fascinating post asking whether we've really eliminated our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disasters or if we've just... More

Some Clarity Amid Budget Proposal Confusion

Jon Ward breaks down the Obama and Ryan numbers

By Joel Meares   Apr 5, 2011 at 01:19 PM

Paul Ryan’s budget proposal—described as “radical” by some and hailed by others as if fresh from the summit of... More

Paywall Postscript

What have your experiences of the NYT paywall been?

By The Editors   Apr 5, 2011 at 01:05 PM

The New York Times’s metered paywall has been in effect since March 28, and reactions to the plan have varied... More

Audit Notes: Hiltzik on Drug R&D, A 1 Percent “Score”, Paywalls

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 4, 2011 at 08:26 PM

The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik finds a study that questions the drug lobby's line on how much it costs... More

The Power of Iterative Journalism

NYT, Fortune, and ProPublica on General Electric’s taxes

By Felix Salmon   Apr 4, 2011 at 03:41 PM

On March 25, the NYT's David Kocieniewski splashed a bombshell of a story across the front page; its current headline,... More

The Littlest Press Shop

Sacramento reporters like Brown’s scaled-back press approach; mostly

By Joel Meares   Apr 4, 2011 at 02:16 PM

Just five days into his latest term in the Sacramento statehouse, California governor Jerry Brown announced that he was cutting... More

Less is Fewer

Counting on grammar rules

By Merrill Perlman   Apr 4, 2011 at 02:04 PM

More and more, fewer people use “less” and “fewer” the way the language gods intended. “There are less people here... More

Ryan’s Whopper $4 Trillion

Where it will come from and what it might mean

By Joel Meares   Apr 4, 2011 at 01:29 PM

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) visited Fox News Sunday this weekend and confirmed last week’s reporting suggesting a... More

A Missing Health Policy Story

A “study says” piece gets short shrift

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 4, 2011 at 12:29 PM

The most underreported health story of this past week was, in my view, one that came out of the RAND... More

The NYT Continues Its War on HuffPo

By Felix Salmon   Apr 4, 2011 at 09:02 AM

The NYT's declared war on the Huffington Post shows no sign of dissipating, and as ever the new-look NYT ... More

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By Justin Peters   Apr 3, 2011 at 03:45 PM

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Audit Notes: Forced Fed, Bank Wages, Schroeder on Buffett

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 07:48 PM

The press continues to rifle through the Fed's discount window data dump, finding that Some 70 percent of all loans... More

The Climate Context in Japan

A discussion with a NYT photographer kidnapped in Libya

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 1, 2011 at 02:35 PM

At an event on Thursday at Columbia University with the four New York Times journalists captured by Qaddafi loyalists in... More

A Times Snapshot of the Gilded Age Economy

The very rich do very well while the rest of the country suffers

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 02:16 PM

The New York Times's business coverage today is good and depressing—a portrait of our Second Gilded Age. On page one,... More

The Trouble with ICorrect

New “reputation management” site should examine its own standards

By Craig Silverman   Apr 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM

Sir David Tang, who launched the luxury retailer Shanghai Tang and has a golden rolodex when it comes to socialites... More

Another Cozy TV-Hospital Partnership

Will the practice ever end?

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 1, 2011 at 11:14 AM

Once more, a large hospital system has climbed in bed with a friendly TV station to promote high-end services, using... More

“The Risks are Worth Taking as Long as Nothing Happens”

Four NYT journalists captured in Libya speak at Columbia

By Lauren Kirchner   Apr 1, 2011 at 09:04 AM

On Thursday evening, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the SPJ hosted photojournalists Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks, reporter... More