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Playing the Expectations Game in New Hampshire
The Union Leader creates an arbitrary threshold for Mitt Romney
By Brendan Nyhan Jan 6, 2012 at 03:37 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — After finishing the Iowa caucus in a virtual tie with former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney... More
The Post-Iowa Challenge
Providing information or constructing a narrative?
By Brendan Nyhan Jan 2, 2012 at 04:20 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — Over the last week, much of the nation's political press corps has headed to Iowa to cover... More
When Newt Isn’t Newsworthy
The problems with news pegs in campaign coverage
By Brendan Nyhan Dec 13, 2011 at 03:18 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — Yesterday, former House speaker Newt Gingrich returned to New Hampshire for a foreign policy debate with former... More
Fact-checking Versus Strategy
When reporters go meta on misleading ads, readers lose
By Brendan Nyhan Nov 29, 2011 at 10:53 AM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — In Sunday's Boston Globe, reporter Michael Levenson warned of a coming "year of mudslinging." This "rough, negative,... More
Covering a “National Campaign” for New Hampshire Readers
How should state press adapt to a world in which candidates bypass early primary states in favor of national debates and TV coverage?
By Brendan Nyhan Nov 22, 2011 at 05:15 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — Both the Washington Post’s Dan Balz and Politico’s Maggie Haberman have argued that the 2012 GOP primary... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
