Monthly Archive

December 2011

• Behind the News, Profile

  Movement Man Meet Chris Faraone, Occupy reporter for the Boston Phoenix

  By Justin Peters

  December 31, 2011 09:53 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  About That Santorum Surge Let's cover it with some restraint and self-awareness

  By Erika Fry

  December 31, 2011 10:07 AM Comments (9)

• Behind the News

  What a Year! A foreign editor looks back in wonder at 2011

  By Thomas Nagorski

  December 30, 2011 02:41 PM Comments (1)

• The Observatory

  Best of 2011: The Observatory From extreme weather to the crisis in Japan, Curtis Brainard picks the top CJR stories from the past year

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 30, 2011 06:00 AM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Best of 2011: Ryan Chittum The Audit's deputy editor picks his top CJR stories from the past year

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 30, 2011 01:36 AM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, Transparency

  This News Story Is Brought to You By… Shouldn’t TV news outlets be clearer about offering pay-for-play?

  By Steven Waldman

  December 29, 2011 08:10 PM Comments (6)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  Local TV News, Meet the Internet Why are broadcasters trying to block political campaign transparency?

  By Steven Waldman

  December 29, 2011 06:53 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  Seeking Truth in the Digital Storm Colorado’s reporters search for ways to keep up with empowered campaigns

  By Mary Winter

  December 29, 2011 08:25 AM

• Behind the News

  Best of 2011: Erika Fry From Romenesko to rich men, Fry picks her top CJR stories from the past year

  By Erika Fry

  December 29, 2011 06:00 AM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  Best of 2011: Joel Meares From Jerry Brown to James O’Keefe, Meares picks his top CJR stories from the past year

  By Joel Meares

  December 28, 2011 06:00 AM

• Behind the News, The Audit

  Best of 2011: Dean Starkman The Audit's head honcho picks his top CJR stories from the past year

  By Dean Starkman

  December 27, 2011 01:33 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  Examining Gingrich’s ‘Radical’ Rhetoric on Courts National press, Iowa editors weigh in, but in-state reporters are mostly quiet

  By Andrew Duffelmeyer

  December 26, 2011 03:57 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Newsstand Success, Paywalls and Tacos, WSJ on Debt Collectors

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 23, 2011 05:05 PM Comments (6)

• Behind the News

  Letters Man Why the letters-to-the-editor section shouldn’t become a forum for flacks

  By John Stoehr

  December 23, 2011 02:07 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  The Kind of Medicare Story We’d Rather Not See SmartMoney runs a lackluster listicle

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 23, 2011 01:44 PM Comments (14)

• The Audit

  The Guardian’s Big Hacking-Scandal Error Failing to attribute its deleted-messages assertion left it open to attack

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 23, 2011 01:14 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Best of 2011: Alysia Santo Santo picks her top CJR stories from the past year

  By Alysia Santo

  December 23, 2011 12:38 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Rattner Gets a Pass, NYT’s Golden Parachute, No Rhodes Scholar

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 22, 2011 06:50 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Journal on Congress’s Inside Dope for Investors

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 22, 2011 05:07 PM Comments (9)

• Behind the News

  Protecting Journalists in Worldwide Danger Zones When international protocols fall short

  By Natasha Lennard

  December 22, 2011 02:42 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  New Investment Company Buys Chicago Sun Times

  By Alysia Santo

  December 22, 2011 01:01 PM

• Campaign Desk

  A Rate-Regulation Case Study in Pennsylvania When insurance rates are news—and when they are not

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 21, 2011 04:26 PM Comments (15)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Bloomberg Takes on the Big Lie of the Crisis

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 21, 2011 03:16 PM Comments (20)

• The Observatory

  Methane Mysteries Coverage of permafrost melt creates confusion about level of worry

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 21, 2011 02:00 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News, The Audit

  The Hole In FON Theory Continuing the discussion about the future of news with Clay Shirky

  By Dean Starkman

  December 21, 2011 11:00 AM Comments (19)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Nocera on Frannie, The Fed’s Politics, Confidence Game

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 20, 2011 11:45 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  On the Record From Inside a Gilded Bubble Bloomberg News profiles the beleaguered ultrarich

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 20, 2011 04:29 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  The Great Teacher of Journalists: Kim Jong-il How the Dear Leader was (and was not) like your editor

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 20, 2011 04:24 PM Comments (2)

• Letters to the Editor

  Corrections Mistakes from our 50th anniversary issue

  By The Editors

  December 20, 2011 01:02 PM

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  Snapshot: Where Conservative Iowans Get Campaign News A media diet heavy on talk radio and Fox News

  By Andrew Duffelmeyer

  December 20, 2011 12:34 PM Comments (12)

• Behind the News, Borders & Bylines

  A Presidential Debate Abroad? An argument for holding a foreign policy debate in a foreign country

  By Justin D. Martin

  December 20, 2011 12:18 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Inflation Inflation, FT on Frannie, Deep Downturns

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 19, 2011 11:43 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, Q and A

  Q&A: New York Times Iraq reporter Michael S. Schmidt On finding classified documents in the trash, and transitioning from the sports beat

  By Erika Fry

  December 19, 2011 05:19 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Baby Doomers: The Trilogy The Journal's good look at a generation's bleak retirement prospects

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 19, 2011 04:10 PM Comments (6)

• Campaign Desk

  The Coverage of Wyden-Ryan, Round One Consensus building to privatize Medicare

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 19, 2011 01:59 PM

• Language Corner

  Language, Free Blogs for grammar geeks

  By Merrill Perlman

  December 19, 2011 12:22 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 16, 2011 06:20 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  Don’t Have a Cow, Iowa State's reaction to Atlantic piece forgets its ironic tradition

  By Erika Fry

  December 16, 2011 05:08 PM Comments (8)

• The Observatory

  Phone-Hacking Inquiry Eyes Science Journalism Nature calls on scientists to “fight agenda-driving reporting”

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 16, 2011 04:00 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Bloomberg Bird-Dogs Meredith Whitney’s Terrible Call

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 16, 2011 03:57 PM Comments (7)

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels Univision, The Miami Herald, and Marco Rubio, the GOP's rising star

  By Erika Fry

  December 16, 2011 03:47 PM

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  The Atlantic Gets Iowa Wrong And in the process, urges national readers to ignore those hicks in the Heartland

  By Kirsten Scharnberg Hampton

  December 16, 2011 02:40 PM Comments (15)

• The News Frontier

  Two Weeks after Launch, New Worries Take Hold Launch Pad: The Classical

  By Bethlehem Shoals

  December 16, 2011 12:23 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Bloomberg Empire Edition

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 15, 2011 06:46 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Pinning Down the President Challenging Obama for overpromising on health care

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 15, 2011 05:48 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  For Whom Are Iowa’s Reporters Writing… …If likely caucus-goers don’t trust (or even read) their campaign coverage?

  By Andrew Duffelmeyer

  December 15, 2011 03:35 PM

• The Observatory

  Newsweek Fetishizes an “Epidemic” Voyeuristic sex-addiction cover misses an important debate

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 15, 2011 03:30 PM Comments (6)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  Frozen Out in Florida Campaign reporters face reduced access, reduced budgets

  By Brian E. Crowley

  December 15, 2011 01:34 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Hudson on the Corporate Culture of Countrywide

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 15, 2011 01:12 PM Comments (25)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: CDS Watch, Murdoch’s Email, Fracking and Quaking

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 14, 2011 06:16 PM Comments (1)

• The News Frontier, The Observatory

  Calling Dr. Crowd News outlets rely on the masses for public health stories

  By Alysia Santo

  December 14, 2011 03:47 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Reuters Finds AMR’s Cost-Cutting Missed a Biggie AMR's discreet $30 million house exposed in a securities filing

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 14, 2011 03:31 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Univision Placeholder URL

  By Justin Peters

  December 14, 2011 03:11 PM

• Earth Journalism, The Observatory

  Inside COP17 Why UN climate summits like the one in Durban are challenging, but worth covering

  By James Fahn

  December 14, 2011 02:45 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  ‘Stingy’ Campaigning Brings Reporting Opportunities For now, Nevada's political reporters aren't running from rally to rally

  By Jay Jones

  December 14, 2011 02:15 PM

• Campaign Desk

  NPR and its Men-on-the-Street Whom should we talk to?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 14, 2011 02:00 PM Comments (18)

• Behind the News

  Reader Reforms Plagiarizing magazine turns a new page

  By Erika Fry

  December 14, 2011 01:56 PM

• Short Takes

  The Future of Magic Bullets Cartoonist Ted Rall shows us how to save the news business

  By Ted Rall

  December 14, 2011 06:00 AM Comments (5)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  When Newt Isn’t Newsworthy The problems with news pegs in campaign coverage

  By Brendan Nyhan

  December 13, 2011 03:18 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, News Meeting

  Winter Reading Club What are some books that journalists should read this winter?

  By The Editors

  December 13, 2011 12:44 PM Comments (16)

• Feature

  The Moments Fifty years of media culture, as captured by Magnum photographers

  By The Editors

  December 13, 2011 06:00 AM

• The Kicker

  Hints of Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed Move?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 12, 2011 03:53 PM

• Language Corner

  Yule Love This Making a list of holiday expressions

  By Merrill Perlman

  December 12, 2011 02:40 PM

• Fiftieth Anniversary

  PM: an anniversary assessment Why a left-leaning New York tabloid failed

  By Lewis Donohew

  December 9, 2011 03:33 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Nobody’s Guilty In SEC Deals, Swipe Fees, Euromess

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 9, 2011 03:09 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  In Iowa, an ‘Openly’ Inflammatory Perry Ad Coverage offers incomplete picture of rules around expressions of faith

  By Andrew Duffelmeyer

  December 9, 2011 12:03 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk, The Kicker

  Anti-Romney voters’ top concern

  By Erika Fry

  December 9, 2011 10:36 AM Comments (7)

• Campaign Desk

  Morning Edition Connects With Regular People But is anybody listening in Washington, DC?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 8, 2011 02:14 PM Comments (18)

• Fiftieth Anniversary

  Press agent—but still President No President has monitored his public image with more zeal than LBJ

  By Ben Bagdikian

  December 8, 2011 01:35 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Big Corporate Welfare Story Gets Short Shrift Reuters's Johnston and Times Union spotlight news almost everyone else ignores

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 8, 2011 12:43 PM Comments (2)

• The Lower Case

  The Lower Case Bad News!

  By The Editors

  December 8, 2011 06:00 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Sensationalism and Consumerism, Paid For on the News The Post pulls up a bit short on plugola

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 7, 2011 08:19 PM Comments (1)

• The Observatory

  Frozen Planet’s Final Episode Will Air in US Discovery Channel reverses course following wave of criticism, but what will viewers get?

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 7, 2011 06:00 PM Comments (15)

• The News Frontier

  Where’s the Party? News startups bring their readers together offline

  By Alysia Santo

  December 7, 2011 05:36 PM

• The Audit

  Ad Layout of the Day

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 7, 2011 01:44 PM Comments (1)

• Borders & Bylines

  Hell Yes to Hell No New book flags ways US targets dissent

  By Justin D. Martin

  December 7, 2011 11:48 AM Comments (1)

• Language Corner

  Homegrown The living language

  By Merrill Perlman

  December 7, 2011 10:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  60 Minutes’ Tough Piece on Crisis Prosecutions Kroft on the lack thereof

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 6, 2011 07:31 PM Comments (10)

• Campaign Desk

  The Murky Politics of the Payroll Tax The media begin to step in the muck

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 6, 2011 04:21 PM Comments (8)

• The Observatory

  Besser to Oz: “You Were Right” Consumer Reports confirms arsenic-in-apple-juice investigation

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 6, 2011 11:00 AM Comments (9)

• Essay

  A Mad Libs Keynote The future of journalism? Just fill in the blanks.

  By Justin Peters

  December 6, 2011 06:00 AM Comments (2)

• Fiftieth Anniversary

  Cold War Comics When "consistently propagandistic" funnies took on the Reds

  By Daniel J. Leab

  December 5, 2011 04:58 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Super Journal Story on “Death-Debt” Collectors Bank proxies harassing grieving family members to give money they don't owe

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 5, 2011 04:40 PM Comments (19)

• Campaign Desk

  CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska Voices of the occupiers on Centennial Mall

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 5, 2011 03:38 PM Comments (14)

• Language Corner

  On, Dasher! A punctuation mark loved too much—or not enough

  By Merrill Perlman

  December 5, 2011 01:05 PM Comments (3)

• The News Frontier

  A DIY Version of a Large-Scale Project Launch Pad: The Classical

  By Bethlehem Shoals

  December 5, 2011 11:43 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Reproducibility, Daily Show, Boeing Settlement

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 2, 2011 07:55 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  The Truth about Public Untruths Are journalists and others equipped to beat back the lies?

  By Craig Silverman

  December 2, 2011 01:13 PM Comments (15)

• Feature

  Power of Dispassion Alan Schwarz changed football

  By Greg Marx

  December 2, 2011 12:45 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, Swing States Project

  In Iowa, Covering a New Breed of Campaign Reduced access to candidates, more Twitter, fewer town halls

  By Andrew Duffelmeyer

  December 2, 2011 12:28 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ Gives Minimum Info on Front Group An astroturf group gets a hit on the minimum wage

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 2, 2011 11:49 AM Comments (18)

• Audio

  James Boylan on Founding CJR: A CJR Podcast

  By Clint Hendler

  December 2, 2011 10:25 AM

• Fiftieth Anniversary

  Viet Nam reporting: three years of crisis “A trying and sometimes hazardous business”

  By Malcolm W. Browne

  December 2, 2011 06:24 AM

• Feature

  Immediate Returns Ben Smith is not an old-school political reporter

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 2, 2011 06:00 AM

• The News Frontier, The Observatory

  The Landman Cometh Innovation Trail and other New York outlets help readers prepare for fracking prospectors

  By Alysia Santo

  December 1, 2011 03:36 PM Comments (17)

• The Audit

  Kristof Finds a Banker With Regrets

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 1, 2011 10:37 AM Comments (5)

• Feature

  A Reporter in Full Isabel Wilkerson listens

  By Pamela Newkirk

  December 1, 2011 06:00 AM

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