Tunku’s Silly Lists

By Brent Cunningham   Feb 18, 2010 at 02:12 PM

Tunku Varadarajan’s lists in The Daily Beast of the top twenty-five “most influential journalists” on the right and on the... More

Head Cases

An expanded version of CJR’s Jan/Feb 2010 interview with NYT reporter Alan Schwarz

By Brent Cunningham   Jan 5, 2010 at 08:00 AM

In 2007 The New York Times hired Alan Schwarz largely on the basis of his initial freelance reporting for the... More

All Together Now (I)

By Brent Cunningham   Oct 6, 2009 at 08:44 PM

Not long ago, Kevin Murphy was simply the president of the Berks County Community Foundation in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city... More

Take a Stand

How journalism can regain its relevance

By Brent Cunningham   Sep 29, 2009 at 08:00 AM

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, as the press faced criticism for failing to use the catastrophe to initiate a... More

Fairness Doctrine, Anyone?

By Brent Cunningham   Aug 3, 2009 at 09:38 AM

I realize it has been a long, long time since this mindset at our TV networks could reasonably be considered... More

A Story About Poor People!

By Brent Cunningham   May 22, 2009 at 01:47 PM

Kudos to DeNeen Brown and The Washington Post for this piece in Monday's paper on the hidden costs of poverty.... More

L.A. Youth In Trouble

By Brent Cunningham   May 7, 2009 at 03:13 PM

From the annals of worthy causes: the diminishing fortunes of the Los Angeles Times have hit L.A. Youth, a twenty-one-year-old... More

You Want Me To What?

By Brent Cunningham   Mar 3, 2009 at 11:28 AM

Referee factual disputes? Ask questions and weigh evidence and try to determine whether the allegations are true or not? Why... More

Re-thinking Objectivity

In a world of spin, our awkward embrace of an ideal can make us passive recipients of the news

By Brent Cunningham   Jul 11, 2003 at 04:38 PM

In his March 6 press conference, in which he laid out his reasons for the coming war, President Bush mentioned... More

Did Bill Cosby Beget Obama?

Well, it’s not quite that simple

By Brent Cunningham   Nov 12, 2008 at 09:30 AM

On Saturday, The New York Times published a piece in its Arts section entitled “Before Obama, There Was Bill Cosby,”... More

Having It Both Ways

What Hugh Hewitt’s ‘interview’ with Sarah Palin says about journalism today

By Brent Cunningham   Oct 1, 2008 at 01:42 PM

Chris Cillizza is a reporter who writes a blog about politics for The Washington Post, one of our nation’s best... More

Journalism And That Whole ‘Citizenship’ Thing

By Brent Cunningham   Sep 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM

Teaching the next generation of news consumers how to discern quality news and information from the dreck and, more importantly,... More

Real Journalism

What a difference the DNA makes

By Brent Cunningham   Jul 11, 2008 at 12:57 PM

Today’s front-page piece in The New York Times about Congressman Charlie Rangel’s rent-control boondoggle—he has four rent-controlled apartments in Manhattan,... More

Mort Rosenblum on Dispatches

New quarterly bucks industry trend, exudes smart idealism

By Brent Cunningham   May 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM

During decades spent racing to cover struggle and strife around the world, Mort Rosenblum, a longtime AP correspondent, and Gary... More

Hey, It’s Just Like Blogging!

By Brent Cunningham   Apr 8, 2008 at 11:43 AM

This piece from today’s New York Times Science section has “Most E-Mailed” written all over it. Imagine, your daily bread... More

Dave Marash: Why I Quit

The veteran newsman says Al Jazeera English’s mission changed

By Brent Cunningham   Apr 4, 2008 at 11:26 AM

In February 2006, David Marash, a veteran correspondent (and substitute host) for ABC’s Nightline, raised eyebrows in the U.S.... More

Hurry Up, Spring Training

Cockfighting and dog shows fill the void?

By Brent Cunningham   Feb 13, 2008 at 10:59 AM

At the risk of seeming to channel some inner Andy Rooney, I can't help but wonder why the front page... More

Spoiling for a Fight

NYT lets CNN off the hook in debate story

By Brent Cunningham   Feb 4, 2008 at 01:11 PM

You can tell that the piece in today’s Business section of The New York Times, headlined “Even as the Candidates... More

The Rhetoric Beat

Why journalism needs one

By Brent Cunningham   Nov 1, 2007 at 02:00 PM

There was a series of moments, during the first twenty-four hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when the... More

Wolff on Murdoch

Laughing all the way to the bank

By Brent Cunningham   Aug 17, 2007 at 11:08 AM

Was anyone surprised that Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff landed a hefty book deal to write about Rupert Murdoch's pursuit of... More