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The weekly grind
How to feed and maintain a weekly opinion column
By Ann Friedman May 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM
A writer I greatly admire, Ta-Nehisi Coates, once offered this exercise in understanding what it's like to produce a weekly... More
United States Project
How extreme is that legislator, really?
A new data set on lawmakers’ ideology can bolster reporting at the state level
By Brendan Nyhan May 23, 2013 at 07:25 AM
When Republican Scott Brown faced Democrat Martha Coakley in a January 2010 special election for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, he... More
The Audit
Audit Notes: The IRS story in context, Silicon Valley oligarchs
Necessary context from ProPublica and the NYT on the overblown scandal
By Ryan Chittum May 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The bulk of the IRS scandal press coverage has been seriously devoid of the kind of context that tells readers... More
The Kicker
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: “Snow Fall” creates an avalanche of copyright questions
By Sara Morrison May 22, 2013 at 06:05 PM
According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure... More
United States Project
In Pittsburgh campaign, ad buy files prove mayor’s involvement
Post-Gazette reporter: online access to records was “huge”
By Anna Clark May 22, 2013 at 02:50 PM
DETROIT, MI -- About three weeks before the May 21 mayoral primary in Pittsburgh, an attack ad against a leading... More
Behind the News
Silver linings newscasts
Down with forced positivity in TV news coverage of Moore, OK
By Jane McManus May 22, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Like everyone else this week, I was transfixed by the tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma. The devastation was quick and, in... More
United States Project
True the Coverage
Some of the organizations targeted for scrutiny by the IRS actually deserve scrutiny—a nuance that is getting lost
By Mariah Blake May 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Just about everyone in Washington agrees that the IRS's blanket targeting of Tea Party groups by keying on words in... More
The Audit
Bloggers for hire on a penny-stock pump and dump
The Motley Fool digs into a brazen and successful scheme to manipulate share prices
By Ryan Chittum May 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Motley Fool's Brian Richards posts a fascinating look inside the pump and dump world of penny-stock promoters, reporting how... More
Cloud Control
Copyright 101.2
How CopyrightX managed to convince hundreds of online students to stick with a course on copyright law
By Sarah Laskow May 21, 2013 at 02:56 PM
CopyrightX, an online course run out of Harvard this spring as part of the EdX program, was unusual in a... More
The Second Opinion
Medicare Uncovered: Who should pay? Who can pay?
A shout-out to Marketwatch for a thorough report that challenges the “skin-in-the-game” theory
By Trudy Lieberman May 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Elizabeth O'Brien's May 15 Marketwatch piece on proposed changes for Medicare is one of the best I have seen since... More
The Observatory
Under the bridge
Climate Desk tracks down its ‘most pernicious’ troll
By Curtis Brainard May 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Frustrating as they may be, every journalist wonders at some point about the identity of his or her most devoted... More
The Audit
OKC’s TV news excels in another disaster
Life-saving information before the tornado, essential reporting afterward
By Ryan Chittum May 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
In Oklahoma, particularly in the springtime, dangerous weather is a part of life. And so are the local TV news... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Fearless British mother who talked down Woolwich terrorists
“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
7 questions for President Obama
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
