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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
StateImpact makes its mark, but won’t expand
As NPR exits the ambitious project, director says, “we changed the way reporting is done”
By Anna Clark May 9, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Two years ago, with statehouse bureaus taking huge cuts in a contracting media landscape, National Public Radio designed the StateImpact... More
Q&A: Afi-Odelia Scruggs of PD Now What?
A former Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter on the “too big to ignore” paper and its place in the city
By Anna Clark Apr 17, 2013 at 11:15 AM
DETROIT, MI -- Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs was one of the last hires of the Cleveland Plain Dealer during its hiring... More
Plain Dealer announces reduced print delivery, creation of new digital company
No layoffs—yet—at Advance’s paper in Cleveland
By Anna Clark Apr 4, 2013 at 01:11 PM
DETROIT, MI -- Ever since owner Advance Publications notified staff at the Cleveland Plain Dealer of looming layoffs late last... More
Expand Ohio’s Medicaid expansion story
Keep people at the fore, but dig into the private insurance angle
By Anna Clark Apr 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
DETROIT, MI -- While reporters across the country are tackling the Medicaid expansion story as the Affordable Care Act takes... More
A close watch on Scott Walker’s jobs pledge
For PolitiFact Wisconsin’s “Walk-o-meter,” the key innovation is sustained attention
By Anna Clark Mar 21, 2013 at 02:50 PM
DETROIT, MI -- When Scott Walker campaigned to become the governor of Wisconsin in 2010, there was one promise that... More
Behind The Detroit News’s deep dive on property taxes
Lead reporter Christine MacDonald discusses how the investigation came together
By Anna Clark Feb 28, 2013 at 04:57 PM
DETROIT, MI -- Word came this afternoon: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will announce Friday whether he intends to name an... More
A puzzling parade of projections in PA
As debate on Medicaid expansion continues, can reporters point the way to credible figures?
By Anna Clark Feb 22, 2013 at 03:45 PM
DETROIT, MI -- Would a Medicaid expansion in Pennsylvania cost the state millions? Billions? Or will it actually bring in... More
At The Plain Dealer, a shrinking staff delivers some solid work
But how will statehouse and politics coverage hold up once layoffs take effect?
By Anna Clark Feb 8, 2013 at 02:47 PM
DETROIT, MI -- There will be many rich politics stories to follow in Ohio in 2013. But when the subject... More
Gun control coverage in the Great Lakes
How did the region’s reporters tell the story of Obama’s January 16th proposal?
By Anna Clark Jan 22, 2013 at 04:30 PM
Anna Clark followed campaign coverage in Michigan during the 2012 election for CJR's Swing States Project. This year, she will... More
In Michigan, a look back on the 2012 campaign
A veteran journalist and a young reporter talk about lessons learned
By Anna Clark Nov 23, 2012 at 10:45 AM
MICHIGAN — It was hard. That’s how Marisa Schultz, political reporter for The Detroit News, sums up the experience of... More
A missed connection on Michigan’s ballot questions?
Bridge battle draws the attention, but Props 1 and 2 could lead to future conflict
By Anna Clark Nov 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
MICHIGAN — On Tuesday, voters will here sift through six ballot initiatives that could transform the state’s policies on a... More
At Michigan’s edge, global warming emerges as campaign issue
But spotty local coverage of House race is sometimes too soft on climate denialism
By Anna Clark Nov 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM
MICHIGAN — Climate change is one of the great disappearing issues of the 2012 campaign. Though President Obama made climate... More
Detroit papers on Romney’s misleading Jeep ad
A campaign ad airs in Ohio but gets a close (sometimes muddled) look from Detroit reporters
By Anna Clark Oct 31, 2012 at 03:00 PM
MICHIGAN — Over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney began running a new 30-second ad in Ohio in which... More
In MI-11, a candidate ducks, but can’t avoid coverage
Detroit Free Press digs in to Bentivolio’s background, though local outlets can do more on the money beat
By Anna Clark Oct 17, 2012 at 03:00 PM
MICHIGAN — Reporters covering the US congressional campaign for Michigan’s 11th district have a truly unusual story on their hands.... More
Michigan media on voter fraud
The story in the state so far—and what’s missing from it
By Anna Clark Oct 2, 2012 at 03:00 PM
MICHIGAN — In Michigan, the political landscape tends to be divided by—well, by landscape. East and West, rural and urban,... More
Keeping facts at the forefront
The Detroit News walks readers through Romney’s “new message” on the auto bailouts
By Anna Clark Sep 10, 2012 at 03:30 PM
DETROIT — Political rhetoric about the 2008-2009 federal loans to the auto industry has ratcheted up in recent days. At... More
Michigan media on Romney’s birth certificate ‘joke’ (UPDATED)
Some news outlets let it slide—unexplained, unchallenged
By Anna Clark Aug 24, 2012 at 05:40 PM
MICHIGAN — Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan brought the Republican presidential ticket to Commerce, Michigan today in an event billed... More
Don’t just look at the money—follow it!
Can Michigan media tell us why a bailout opponent is collecting big bucks from Wall Street?
By Anna Clark Aug 15, 2012 at 03:08 PM
MICHIGAN — One of the old standbys of political journalism—“follow the money”—sometimes gives way to something simpler: “look at the... More
Follow the story, not the agenda
How to (and how not to) cover campaign “events,” like Biden’s recent Detroit speech
By Anna Clark Jul 31, 2012 at 03:45 PM
MICHIGAN — You show up, jot down a few quotes, take in a bit of scenic color, and translate it... 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?
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
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
