Deadspin Is Excellent on a Bogus Tax Break for Wealthy Team Owners

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2011 at 04:27 PM

Gawker's sports site Deadspin got hold of some New Jersey Nets financial statements from a few years ago and uses... More

Halperin Sorry for Calling President a “Dick”; Still Suspended

By Joel Meares   Jun 30, 2011 at 10:43 AM

Speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, TIME editor-at-large and Beltway Terminator Mark Halperin said the president acted like “kind... More

Bank of America’s Disastrous Countrywide Deal

The “dumb” money squandered tens of billions of dollars on Angelo Mozilo’s predatory lender

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2011 at 10:32 AM

In The Big Short, hedge fund investor Steve Eisman recalled the time he heard Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis... More

Kling’s Warning

Q&A with outgoing Minnesota Public Radio CEO Bill Kling

By Joel Meares   Jun 30, 2011 at 10:06 AM

In 1967, in exchange for free grad-school tuition, Bill Kling agreed to help Minnesota’s St. John’s University start a radio... More

An Interview with Don Barlett

What journo newbies (and the rest of us) can learn from an old master

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 30, 2011 at 10:00 AM

After writing nearly 500 posts over the last few years on health care, Medicare, and Social Security, I have observed... More

Audit Notes: The Swipe-Fee Battle, Homeless Kids, Angelides on Fire

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2011 at 06:03 PM

Bloomberg News has an excellent recount of how the debit-card swipe-fee battle was waged. Its headline is just about perfect:... More

Bank of America’s Big Countrywide Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 29, 2011 at 03:03 AM

Bank of America is going to fork over $8.5 billion to mortgage-bond investors lied to by Countrywide Financial, the Wall... More

Pioneer Press On a Renting Crisis and the Almost-Homeless

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2011 at 08:06 PM

The St. Paul Pioneer Press does a good job looking at how a serious lack of affordable housing and the... More

The Article Is Journalism’s Yellow Mustard

Launch pad: Newsbound.com

By Josh Kalven   Jun 28, 2011 at 04:03 PM

CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Past columns by... More

CBSNews.com’s “United States of Influence” Tallies National Frustration

By Joel Meares   Jun 28, 2011 at 03:45 PM

CBSNews.com today launched a new series titled, “United States of Influence,” which looks at why Americans feel so frustrated... More

What Should Chris Wallace Have Asked?

“Flake”-free questions for Michele Bachmann

By The Editors   Jun 28, 2011 at 02:53 PM

It came about fourteen minutes into Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace’s sixteen-minute interview with presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann.... More

A Bloomberg Investigation Exposes Cisco’s Tax Hypocrisy

CEO pushes for a repatration holiday while working hard to move profits overseas

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 28, 2011 at 02:25 PM

Cisco's billionaire CEO John Chambers has led the recent campaign to let multinationals repatriate their overseas profits to the U.S.... More

Confidence In TV News and Newspapers (Slightly) Up

What’s Weiner got to do with it?

By Joel Meares   Jun 28, 2011 at 01:11 PM

Some heartening news for those in the newspaper and TV News industries. Gallup’s annual poll of the public’s confidence... More

“The Usual Queries about Tactics, Controversies”

How to read Howard Kurtz’s column

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM

It’s far too early in the campaign season to let one little Howard Kurtz piece turn you off campaign coverage,... More

It’s the Least CNN Could Do…

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM

... name Jessica Yellin chief White House correspondent, after this back in '08: And another Yellin '08 flashback: remember when... More

Weekend at Di’s

By Joel Meares   Jun 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM

Somebody dial 911. Quickly. There’s been a gas leak at the Newsbeast offices. There must have been. It is... More

Audit Notes: Pogue Problems, Wall Street Arrest, Mortgage Assets Crashing Again

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2011 at 08:26 PM

Jim Romenesko scoops that a PR newsletter is selling $159 tickets to watch David Pogue say what pitches he likes... More

Globe Delivers its Verdict on Romneycare

A good—if imperfect—example of policy-oriented reporting

By Greg Marx   Jun 27, 2011 at 05:13 PM

On Sunday, the Boston Globe published the second installment in its two-part series on “Romneycare,” the Massachusetts health care overhaul... More

What’s A Local Site To Do?

Small and hyper-local sites gear up for the GOP primary

By Joel Meares   Jun 27, 2011 at 05:01 PM

In June 2010, Craig Robinson got a midterm scoop that no other media outlet, national or local, was able to... More

Twitter for Newsrooms #tweetsizedreportingmanual

By Joel Meares   Jun 27, 2011 at 03:45 PM

Twitter has today released a new resource called Twitter for Newsrooms, which journalists can find and play around with... More

Bribery Without Bribers

James B. Stewart brings up an undercovered story; Tyson Foods executives walked

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2011 at 03:21 PM

James B. Stewart got off to a strong start this weekend with his new New York Times column, which fills... More

Fraught Fest

Can something be ‘fraught’ without ‘with’?

By Merrill Perlman   Jun 27, 2011 at 01:12 PM

Kirk Arnott, a retired assistant managing editor of the Columbus Dispatch who keeps his hand sharp with part-time copyediting there,... More

The Forward Goes Daily, Again

By Joel Meares   Jun 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM

The website for The Jewish Daily Forward has been revamped as part of a push to focus once... More

“Are You a Flake?”

Wallace’s bad question an announcement-day gift for Bachmann

By Joel Meares   Jun 27, 2011 at 12:03 PM

Michele Bachmann officially launched her campaign today in Waterloo, Iowa, the onetime hometown from which—according to a speech Bachmann... More

Wemple’s Blog Launches at WaPo Site

By Greg Marx   Jun 27, 2011 at 09:52 AM

Flagging a welcome new addition to the media beat: Erik Wemple, formerly of the Washington City Paper and TBD.com, is... More

HuffPo’s Missing Gephardt Disclosure

By Joel Meares   Jun 24, 2011 at 02:38 PM

Sebastian Jones, an editor at the liberal Washington Monthly, has shot a sharp dart at The Huffington Post for publishing... More

An NYT Default Story Has Finance Industry Tunnel Vision

The paper gets it all wrong on Argentina’s lessons for Greece

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 24, 2011 at 02:09 PM

The New York Times posted a truly awful story online yesterday headlined "Argentina's Default Offers a Cautionary Tale for Greece."... More

Reuters Brings a Deustche Derivatives Whistleblower to the Surface

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 24, 2011 at 12:40 PM

Reuters's Matthew Goldstein has an eye-raising scoop today, reporting that Deutsche Bank fired a top credit default swaps trader in... More

Misquotes That Refuse to Die

Things that David Plouffe, Captain Kirk, and others didn’t say

By Craig Silverman   Jun 24, 2011 at 11:47 AM

Back in 2009, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign manager, David Plouffe, said some rather kind words about Utah governor Jon Huntsman,... More

The Devil Wears Prada

The first entry in CJR’s summer movie club

By Joel Meares   Jun 24, 2011 at 01:43 AM

The Devil Wears Prada is a film that exists two beats apart from reality. At least. Based on the book... More

Audit Notes: Magnetar Misled, Anonymous But On the Record, WSJ Jet Probe

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 23, 2011 at 07:49 PM

I wrote about JPMorgan's Magnetar settlement this morning, but it's important to note that it shows once and for all... More

Attack of the Drones

Finding the real meaning in Obama’s Afghanistan speech

By Greg Marx   Jun 23, 2011 at 02:36 PM

In the wake of President Obama’s big speech on Afghanistan last night, the basic points of his message—a reversal of... More

Fraud Without Fraudsters; Fraud Without “Fraud”

The SEC’s settlement with JPMorgan Chase on a Magnetar deal

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 23, 2011 at 02:02 PM

How is it possible to file a civil fraud lawsuit against a bank without filing them against a banker? That's... More

The Crazy Book-Banning Lady Who Wants to be President (UPDATED)

Matt Taibbi’s colorful takedown of “Mad” Michele Bachmann

By Joel Meares   Jun 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM

Last week, The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg authored what one might have reasonably expected would be the most vicious takedown... More

Times Series on Group-Home Abuses Gets Results

By Greg Marx   Jun 23, 2011 at 10:15 AM

Danny Hakim’s report on a new agreement between New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s largest public-employee union contains... More

Audit Notes: Wall Street’s Trib Bust, Pro-Union U.S., Authoritarian Wal-Mart

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2011 at 08:30 PM

David Carr looks at James O'Shea's new book on Sam Zell's Tribune Company fiasco and zooms in on O'Shea's reporting... More

Risen’s gripping affidavit

By Clint Hendler   Jun 22, 2011 at 03:31 PM

Yesterday James Risen, one of The New York Times’s top national security reporters, filed an affidavit in a federal district... More

Summer Movie Club

What movie would you recommend to a journalist this summer?

By The Editors   Jun 22, 2011 at 12:50 PM

Whether blasted in a blessedly air-conditioned megaplex, or projected on a roof-deck after dark, movies make a summer. The forthcoming... More

Gannett’s Multimillionaires Regret to Inform 700 Workers of Their Layoffs

Imagine if these six execs scrapped the “multi” and took low seven figures

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 22, 2011 at 01:42 AM

Gannett says "we need to take further steps to align our costs with the current revenue trends," so it's laying... More

WaPo on Bachmann’s Language

Blurting for dollars, blinking through debate

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 21, 2011 at 03:20 PM

Two days, two takes from The Washington Post on Michele Bachmann’s language. On Sunday, the Post coined the icky term... More

Climate Questions for the GOP

What to ask candidates so clearly unconcerned?

By Curtis Brainard   Jun 21, 2011 at 02:15 PM

During last week’s Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire, CNN’s John King, who served as moderator, asked questions about... More

He’s Back

Olbermann and Countdown back on Current TV

By Joel Meares   Jun 21, 2011 at 12:58 PM

It’s probably unwise to make any big calls on Keith Olbermann’s return to the big chair last night on Al... More

Stock Market Chart of the Day: Socialism vs. Cowboy Capitalism

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 21, 2011 at 12:19 PM

In the appendix of that report on executive compensation and inequality that the Washington Post wrote about the other day,... More

iPad Magazines: Just a Little Bit of History Repeating

Tablet news following a pattern as old as paper itself

By Zachary Sniderman   Jun 21, 2011 at 11:50 AM

Last December, headlines decreed that the digital publishing world was falling apart. After an initial surge, iPad magazine sales were... More

Nocera vs Sorkin, Bank Capital Edition

By Felix Salmon   Jun 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM

One of the consequences of Joe Nocera's move to the NYT op-ed page is that his column now appears on... More

Q&A with FCC Report Head Writer Steve Waldman, Part Two

“Rather than doing it ‘once more with feeling,’ let’s try something new.”

By Joel Meares   Jun 21, 2011 at 09:45 AM

Two weeks ago, the FCC released its long-awaited, 365-page report, “The Information Needs of Communities.” The report’s chief writer, Steve... More

Executive Compensation As the Driver of Inequality

A well reported Washington Post story makes a solid case

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2011 at 05:51 PM

The Washington Post leads off its new series on inequality with a killer anecdote: It was the 1970s, and the... More

Q&A with FCC Report Head Writer Steve Waldman, Part One

“We actually have to pay attention to this and if we don’t, there are going to be severe consequences.”

By Joel Meares   Jun 20, 2011 at 05:43 PM

Two weeks ago, the FCC released its long-awaited, 365-page report, “The Information Needs of Communities.” The report’s chief writer,... More

Huntsman as McCain Redux

And why the similarities create perils for the press

By Greg Marx   Jun 20, 2011 at 05:11 PM

Jon Huntsman may be stuck at the bottom of early polls for the Republican nomination for president, but, as CNN’s... More

Title Search

Descriptions that deserve respect, or not

By Merrill Perlman   Jun 20, 2011 at 02:10 PM

We love to modify things, to make them as descriptive or as recognizable as possible. It’s not just a house,... More

The Hamster Wheel and the AOL Way

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM

Audit Chief Dean Starkman's "Hamster Wheel" piece has now been enshrined in the lexicon of the bureaucracy with the release... More

Audit Notes: Cash Giveaway, Bloomberg Views (in the WSJ), Lede of the Week

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 17, 2011 at 08:40 PM

Jeff Amy of the Mobile Press-Register has some good reporting on corporate welfare in Alabama. He writes that businesses aren't... More

SEC Scooplets From the WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 17, 2011 at 12:28 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that the SEC is finally considering charging the credit raters—critical components of the... More

The Backfire Effect

More on the press’s inability to debunk bad information

By Craig Silverman   Jun 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM

Which of these headlines strikes you as the most persuasive: “I am not a Muslim, Obama says.” “I am a... More

The Press Notes the Euro Crisis Threatens the U.S. Too

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 16, 2011 at 05:47 PM

It's beginning to dawn on the U.S. press that the slow-motion crash of the European Union just might have some... More

Politico Explores Talk Radio’s Pay-For-Play Practices

Are deals for Limbaugh, Beck a harbinger?

By Greg Marx   Jun 16, 2011 at 05:31 PM

Politico reporters Ken Vogel and Lucy McCalmont had an interesting, well-reported story Wednesday about the inner workings of what’s been... More

An Excellent WSJ Probe Finds Corporate Jet Abuse

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 16, 2011 at 01:34 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a terrific investigation into executive abuse of corporate jets and shows that companies are violating... More

Yep, Time Has a GOP Primary “Bracket”

By Joel Meares   Jun 16, 2011 at 11:37 AM

Joe Klein has the Time cover story this week—a smart if very Joe Klein-y take on the ideological posturing of... More

On Eric Bolling’s “Hizzy” Fit

Is anyone watching (at) Fox Business Network?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 16, 2011 at 09:31 AM

In the thick of the 2008 presidential election season, the Wall Street Journal detected a trend: "Television news organizations, facing... More

Dealbook’s Goldman Debate

By Felix Salmon   Jun 15, 2011 at 09:01 PM

It’s the big Dealbook debate! In the red corner, there’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, defending Goldman Sachs from Senator Carl Levin’s... More

Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2011 at 08:18 PM

The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just... More

The Potential for Medical Journalism in Kenya

A country that’s aching for quality health reporting

By Justin D. Martin   Jun 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM

NAIROBI, Kenya—Before landing in Kenya, my doctor had me get shots for typhoid, tetanus, cholera, yellow fever, and meningitis. He... More

FT: SEC Investigates a Magnetar Deal

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM

The FT's Kara Scannell scoops that the SEC is investigating a Magnetar CDO deal, probing Merrill Lynch and its handpicked... More

On Sock Puppets and Best Practices

How far should news outlets go to verify bloggers’ identities?

By The Editors   Jun 14, 2011 at 05:05 PM

After some impressive detective work by several journalists, it was revealed early this week that Amina Arraf, the supposed author... More

Gawker’s Rebound

By Felix Salmon   Jun 14, 2011 at 04:25 PM

It's been more than six months since sales chief Chris Batty left Gawker Media as Nick Denton decided he was... More

Mitt’s Great Escape

Press declares Romney winner of last night’s punchless fight

By Joel Meares   Jun 14, 2011 at 02:11 PM

Last night’s GOP primary debate at Saint Anselm College began something like an episode of Jeopardy!, with the contestants/candidates... More

“This or That,” Circa 2007

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM

CNN's John King, understandably, took some ribbing for his "this or that" series of questions during last night's Republican presidential... More

How to Dodge Debate Dodges

CNN debate demanded one simple phrase

By Clint Hendler   Jun 14, 2011 at 12:42 AM

Last night’s CNN debate drew the respect and attention that the first debate, hosted in early May by Fox News,... More

“What To Watch For” at GOP Prez Debate

Questions, moderator “matter,” WaPo (alone?) notes

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 13, 2011 at 04:47 PM

Folks who wish to be told “what to look for” during tonight’s Republican presidential debate are in luck: pretty much... More

A Broken Lede

The government isn’t “broke.” Reporters should stop saying it is.

By Greg Marx   Jun 13, 2011 at 03:46 PM

The Associated Press has an important story today about the fairly horrifying condition of many state budgets. On its site,... More

The Unimportance Lobby (UPDATED)

The NYT shows Big Finance pushing to avoid a “systematically important” designation

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 13, 2011 at 03:31 PM

The New York Times had a good look yesterday at how big financial companies are lobbying Washington to not be... More

More Reactions to FCC Report

Critics split on whether government should do more or less

By Joel Meares   Jun 13, 2011 at 02:43 PM

The FCC released its staff report, “Information Needs of Communities,” last Thursday and industry and advocacy groups were quick to... More

Call Me ‘Al’

Another confusing suffix

By Merrill Perlman   Jun 13, 2011 at 02:28 PM

Is an appliance “electric” or “electrical”? Is Sarah Palin visiting “historic” sites or “historical” sites? Is being “politic” the same... More

Hawkery—and Hackery—from Hiatt

Post column misleads on health care reform

By Greg Marx   Jun 13, 2011 at 02:17 PM

In his latest column, which chides President Obama for choosing “easier politics over harder truths” when dealing with America’s fiscal... More

On the Health Policy Beat

With the Boston Globe’s Kay Lazar

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM

As we head into a new presidential campaign with health care likely to be one of the defining issues, Campaign... More

Bloomberg’s Weil Exposes Another Accounting Regulator Coverup

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2011 at 07:08 PM

Jonathan Weil has a tough Bloomberg View column about accounting regulators covering up wrongdoing by companies and their auditors. Back... More

Newspaper Guild Calling on Freelancers for Survey

By Joel Meares   Jun 10, 2011 at 05:07 PM

Rebecca Rosen Lum, chair of the Guild Freelancers Unit of The Newspaper Guild-CWA, has sent along some information about a... More

AT&T Buys Nonprofit Support for its Anticompetitive Merger

Politico and the Washington Post follow the money

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 10, 2011 at 03:39 PM

It ought to raise eyebrows when groups like the NAACP, GLAAD, and the nation's largest teachers union lobby to approve... More

Grantland Rises

An initial review of Bill Simmons’s sports site

By Sam Eifling   Jun 10, 2011 at 01:19 PM

As a journalist it’s impossible not to root for Grantland, the long-form ESPN spinoff site captained by logorrheic NBA junkie... More

Writing The War On Drugs

Why do so few American papers report on the trade in their backyard?

By Javier Garza Ramos   Jun 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM

What if American law enforcement agents arrested more than six hundred drug dealing suspects in more than twenty cities across... More

No Room for Discussion at FCC Report Panel

Waldman re-presents his report at Columbia J-School

By Joel Meares   Jun 10, 2011 at 11:36 AM

Columbia University’s J-School and the FCC hosted a panel today to coincide with yesterday’s release of the Commission’s “Information Needs... More

Audit Notes: Paywall Protection, News Corp. Scandal Widens, Goldman and Libya

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 07:49 PM

Ken Doctor has a good post over at Nieman Journalism Lab on the Walter Hussman Theorem, which is that you... More

Heavy On Problems, Light On Solutions: The FCC Report Has Landed

A quick look at the “disappointing” recommendations

By Joel Meares   Jun 9, 2011 at 05:37 PM

In some three hundred and sixty odd pages, the FCC’s long-awaited Future of News “Information Needs of Communities” report... More

The Fed, Still Oracular in the Post-Greenspan Era

The business press’s various interpretations of a Bernanke speech

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 03:54 PM

Ben Bernanke gave a speech the other day, saying that... well... he said some thing or another, according to the... More

US vs. The Wired World

Comparing per capita broadband adoption

By Lauren Kirchner   Jun 9, 2011 at 03:50 PM

FCC’s new report “The Information Needs of Communities,” released Thursday, surveys the current state of the American media and finds... More

Pawlenty’s Economic Fantasy

A mixed showing from the press as the GOP contender sets out his plan

By Greg Marx   Jun 9, 2011 at 02:24 PM

In his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has tried to cast himself as a... More

Jon Huntsman’s Vision for the Future of Medicare

Whose moral obligation is it?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 9, 2011 at 12:49 PM

Potential presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed was thoroughly predictable, containing lots of the acceptable phrases for... More

Walmart’s Unions

They do exist—outside the U.S.—as a Washington Post story shows

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM

It's well known that Walmart is viciously anti-union. It's not much known is that the company is much more accomodative... More

FCC Report: “The Information Needs of Communities”

By Joel Meares   Jun 9, 2011 at 11:57 AM

The FCC's eighteen-months-in-the-making Future of Media report—now called "The Information Needs of Communities"—is now out and available below for your... More

Audit Notes: Poor Wall Street, Our Lost Decade, Parallel Universe

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 07:46 PM

Reading this Wall Street Journal story, you'd think that Wall Street had fallen on hard times: Morgan Stanley offered a... More

“Cad.” “Creep.” Campaign Finance Lawbreaker?

A roundup of coverage of John Edwards’s indictment

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 8, 2011 at 03:21 PM

On Friday, former presidential contender John Edwards was indicted on six felony charges, including the charge that he solicited and... More

WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity

A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 8, 2011 at 02:39 PM

You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of... More

What Should Jill Do?

Offer your advice for The New York Times’s incoming executive editor

By The Editors   Jun 8, 2011 at 01:55 PM

Bill Keller will officially step down from his post as executive editor of The New York Times on Labor Day,... More

Times’s Jill Abramson: Dog Nut, Norse Deity

The profiles are rolling in

By Joel Meares   Jun 8, 2011 at 01:15 PM

Almost a week after The New York Times announced that executive editor Bill Keller was stepping down and Jill... More

Audit Notes: News Corp. Coverup Continues, Guinness Record for Sellouts, AOL/HuffPo

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2011 at 07:58 PM

The New York Times reports on the latest from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation phone hacking scandal and coverup. The news... More

Cathryn Cronin Cranston

An obituary for CJR’s publisher

By The Editors   Jun 7, 2011 at 04:52 PM

The staff of the Columbia Journalism Review is deeply sorry to report the death of our publisher, Cathryn Cranston, who... More

CJR’s Meares Wins Mirror Award

By The Editors   Jun 7, 2011 at 03:14 PM

Congratulations to CJR's Joel Meares for winning the Best Profile, Digital Media award at today's Mirror Awards Ceremony. (The Mirror... More

Delaying the Dodd-Frank Rules

An NYT story shows the WSJ parroting bogus Wall Street spin

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2011 at 01:33 PM

Planet Money's Jacob Goldstein makes a great catch this morning, noting that The Wall Street Journal and New York Times... More

Mad Men: Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test

A travelogue of insanity with the author of Them

By Caroline H. Dworin   Jun 7, 2011 at 11:34 AM

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through The Madness Industry | by Jon Ronson | Riverhead | 288 pages, $25.95 Jon... More

Environmental Journalism Associations Proliferating Worldwide

Members find strength—and challenges—in numbers

By James Fahn   Jun 7, 2011 at 10:37 AM

When I was a journalist uncovering how oil and petrochemical companies were dumping mercury into the Gulf of Thailand, I... More

The Man Who Cried Scandal

Weinergate and thoughts from Breitbart on the media

By Joel Meares   Jun 7, 2011 at 10:34 AM

It was the pre-game show to one of the most excruciating political confession-apologies in recent memory. Andrew Breitbart, attending... More

Lift the Shroud

Why we need Al Jazeera English

By The Editors   Jun 7, 2011 at 09:45 AM

For most of the last decade, when Americans heard mention of Al Jazeera, the Arabic language Qatar-based satellite news... More

Audit Notes: Sun-Times Daley Probe, CanadaCare Myths, Off the News

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 7, 2011 at 12:41 AM

The Chicago Sun-Times has a dandy investigation today reporting that the son of former Mayor Richard Daley made skads of... More

The Media Tourist’s Guide to the World

By Lauren Kirchner   Jun 6, 2011 at 02:50 PM

Traveling to a distant land, and wondering where you’ll get the news in your new spot? Or hear of a... More

Goldman’s WSJ Score

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 6, 2011 at 02:49 PM

Goldman Sachs displays some savvy PR in getting The Wall Street Journal to go big with a story about it... More

Appositive Negatives

Some things are not unique

By Merrill Perlman   Jun 6, 2011 at 02:38 PM

Last week, we talked about setting a parenthetical description off with commas in the grammatical phenomenon known as an “appositive.”... More

Making Sense of Sino-Forest

Ponzi allegations call for an independent arbiter, but the press comes up short

By Felix Salmon   Jun 6, 2011 at 02:27 PM

If you want to move a stock with a research report, you can hardly hope to do better than Muddy... More

Nobody Loves Rick

Skeptical coverage for Santorum’s entry to the presidential race

By Greg Marx   Jun 6, 2011 at 02:01 PM

Say this much for Rick Santorum: As a former senator who’s been hard at work cultivating support in the early... More

Memo to Joe Nocera

Getting the facts right on Medicare

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 6, 2011 at 12:11 PM

Dear Joe: It was good to see your column on Medicare in The New York Times the other day. I... More

Cause For Pause on Weinergate (UPDATED)

Jack Shafer on the sensational congressman

By Joel Meares   Jun 6, 2011 at 11:56 AM

Slate’s Jack Shafer had a thoughtful column up on Friday regarding last week’s Weinergate shenanigans. In it, Shafer makes a... More

Audit Notes: Lehman, Off the Hook; Foreclosure Scandal; Bloomberg Snooze

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2011 at 05:23 PM

Bloomberg News scoops that the fearsome SEC is going to let top executives from Lehman Brothers off the hook without... More

Bill Keller’s Long War Legacy

The defining story of eight years leading the Times.

By Clint Hendler   Jun 3, 2011 at 03:32 PM

Bill Keller, who has served as The New York Times’s executive editor since July 2003, is stepping down—and an era... More

A Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 3, 2011 at 01:06 PM

The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its... More

Q&A: Joel Simon On CPJ’s “Impunity Index” and Violence Against Journalists

“For a long time, the threat was sort of a badge of honor. ‘Yeah, I got a threat, I must be getting to them.’”

By Joel Meares   Jun 3, 2011 at 12:51 PM

On Wednesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists released its fourth annual Impunity Index—a ranking of countries determined by the... More

Best Practices for Social Media Verification

Some tips and thoughts from the experts

By Craig Silverman   Jun 3, 2011 at 11:52 AM

Whether you view it as long overdue or just in time, I believe we are starting to see the emergence... More

The Intense Health Reform Drama in the Maine Legislature

What are its implications for the rest of the nation?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 3, 2011 at 10:43 AM

If the old political adage “as goes Maine, so goes the nation” has any currency these days, health insurers may... More

Bachmann and Pawlenty: Where’s the Policy in this Grudge Match?

Politico misses an opportunity

By Joel Meares   Jun 3, 2011 at 08:56 AM

My colleague Greg Marx on Thursday gave something of a laurel to the Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman for a... More

Four Ws From the WSJ

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2011 at 06:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal messes up a story atop its Marketplace section today that reports that a judge ordered American... More

On Monetary Policy and Presidential Politics

The next election may depend on the economy. So where are the efforts to fix it?

By Greg Marx   Jun 2, 2011 at 04:04 PM

In today’s New York Times, Binyamin Appelbaum notes what is thus far one of the most salient facts of the... More

Cali’s Worst Legislators Part Two: The Brothers Calderon

By Joel Meares   Jun 2, 2011 at 04:03 PM

In November of last year, the Village Voice Media-owned L.A. Weekly ran a piece titled “The Worst Legislator in... More

The Best of Weiner Fest

By Joel Meares   Jun 2, 2011 at 01:52 PM

Sorry about that headline—but hey, if you can’t beat ‘em… So far, we at CJR haven't paid much attention to... More

The Journal Takes on Tim Pawlenty

A good start, but there’s more to be done

By Greg Marx   Jun 2, 2011 at 01:46 PM

It’s a common complaint around here that campaign coverage focuses too much on the horse race, and not enough on... More

CPI Shows Some Credit Unions Gouging Customers, Payday Lender-Style

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 2, 2011 at 01:17 PM

The Center for Public Integrity's Ben Hallman has an excellent investigation at iWatch News exposing how some credit unions are... More

Pay Up

Sources have their agendas. Why can’t money be one?

By John Cook   Jun 2, 2011 at 10:10 AM

Paying for information is, among American journalists, generally regarded as falling in the same moral category as paying for sex.... More

Audit Notes: Ellison’s Battle of the Bay View, Biovail Blues, Liz Warren’s “Cult”

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2011 at 08:25 PM

What does the fifth richest man in the world do when the neighbors' trees spoil the view of San Francisco... More

No More Staged Presidential Address Photos!

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 1, 2011 at 04:05 PM

Last month, I, for one, was unpleasantly surprised to learn that some news photos of President Obama addressing the nation... More

NYT: Fabulous Fab Pointed Fingers at Goldman

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 1, 2011 at 01:16 PM

Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson raise a good question in their agenda-setting piece in The New York Times this morning:... More

“Words We Don’t Say,” An Update

By The Editors   Jun 1, 2011 at 01:05 PM

In last week’s news meeting question, inspired by a list of forbidden words from Kurt Andersen’s days as editor of... More

A Look at the Arab Blogosphere

Birth pangs of a new Middle East?

By Bilal Lakhani   Jun 1, 2011 at 01:03 PM

Many of the estimated 35,000 bloggers in the Arab world have carved out reputations as online watchdogs on governments, in... More