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The Rhetorical Primary
It’s time to ask Clinton how, exactly, she plans to win.
By Clint Hendler Mar 5, 2008 at 03:27 PM
Before last night’s voting, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter unveiled the mathematical goods—there is simply no way, short of a miracle, that... More
Natural Born Campaign-Killer?
Canal-birthed McCain, meet China-calved Luce
By Clint Hendler Feb 29, 2008 at 01:58 PM
Yesterday’s New York Times’ had a story spotlighting the semi-serious debate over whether or not John McCain, having been born... More
Off The Map
Foreign affairs were missing, and missed, in debate season
By Clint Hendler Feb 27, 2008 at 05:50 PM
Late in last night’s debate, after a brief discussion of Russia’s upcoming “election” and extended, familiar, plowings of the few... More
The Last Night
Final Fights and Russertism
By Clint Hendler Feb 27, 2008 at 11:09 AM
The press consensus seems to be that last night’s MSNBC debate was the sharpest of the season, but that it... More
Avoiding Assassination
Why we’d rather not talk about it
By Clint Hendler Feb 25, 2008 at 12:32 PM
I always start from a presumption that journalists should probe tough topics. But still, there’s something unseemly and vaguely creepy... More
The Debate Shuffle
Pick a storyline, any storyline
By Clint Hendler Feb 22, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Since April 2007, by my count, the Democrats have met to debate 18 times. As someone who has watched nearly... More
McCausation
How 1 + 1 ads up to $—or XXX
By Clint Hendler Feb 21, 2008 at 05:13 PM
One of the chief complaints about The New York Times’ story on the relationship between McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman... More
Don’t Worry, WikiLeaks
The Times has got your back
By Clint Hendler Feb 20, 2008 at 03:54 PM
Yesterday a federal judge ordered WikiLeaks off the internet. Nice try. You see, on Friday the secrecy-shrouded leaked-document Web site... More
Whoops
Where CJR’s “Rest in Piece” went wrong
By Clint Hendler Feb 18, 2008 at 04:00 PM
Early this afternoon, I posted a short piece suggesting The Des Moines Register had papered-over an uncomfortable fact. Ralph Gross... More
Obama’s Old Boss
An FCC blast from the past
By Clint Hendler Feb 15, 2008 at 10:45 AM
I was catching up with The New York Times last night, when late in a profile of Michelle Obama I... More
Watching The Washington Post
On primary night, a glimpse of the print-digital future
By Clint Hendler Feb 14, 2008 at 02:08 PM
On Tuesday, I didn’t watch the Virginia returns on cable or broadcast. I watched The Washington Post on my computer.... More
Heisenberg’s Calling Principle
MSNBC and Reuters jump the gun in DC
By Clint Hendler Feb 13, 2008 at 12:20 PM
After the clock struck eight, MSNBC pounced to make the call: Obama carries Washington, DC. Reuters followed not long after.... More
Five Years Ago
Powell spoke, and the press missed an opportunity
By Clint Hendler Feb 5, 2008 at 01:51 PM
Amidst Super Tuesday hoopla, it's worth remembering that today is the five year anniversary of then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s... More
As goes American Samoa…
Voting early, the island enhances its play on Super Tuesday
By Clint Hendler Feb 5, 2008 at 12:34 PM
By most measures, American Samoa is a small place. It has a population of 57,000, sharing about seventy-one square miles... More
Wikileaked onto A-10
The New York Times follows up
By Clint Hendler Feb 4, 2008 at 05:15 PM
WikiLeaks.org, a user-editable Web site that anonymously publishes sensitive documents, has obtained what seems to be the United States’ Iraq... 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.
