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AP readies for Super Tuesday
Q&A with Sr. Managing Editor Mike Silverman
By Clint Hendler Feb 1, 2008 at 11:39 AM
This Tuesday, American voters will face an unprecedented day of primary voting. More than 20 states—and American Samoa—will hold caucuses... More
CNN’s Reagan Mystique
Last night, it was morning in America. Again.
By Clint Hendler Jan 31, 2008 at 01:12 PM
When the Democrats debated in Philadelphia, Brian Williams and Tim Russert didn’t spend the whole night talking about Ben Franklin,... More
Politics as Sport
Rudy Tuesday and Super Sunday
By Clint Hendler Jan 30, 2008 at 01:17 PM
Last night, shortly before Florida’s panhandle polls closed, Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace were bidding their farewells so Brit Hume... More
“Discovering” Delegates
…when they’ve always been there.
By Clint Hendler Jan 28, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Today Adam Nagourney has a nice Times piece looking at the facts behind the week’s campaign buzzword: delegate. As it... More
Times Have Changed
Now Rudy’s happy to be insulted by his hometown paper
By Clint Hendler Jan 25, 2008 at 11:52 AM
It was the kind of moment that could give a network executive a heart attack: Tim Russert and Brian Williams... More
The War Card
It isn’t just Bush who looks bad
By Clint Hendler Jan 24, 2008 at 05:53 PM
Today the Center for Public Integrity released “The War Card,” a voluminous searchable database tallying false statements from the Bush... More
GEO TV Back On Air
Sort of.
By Clint Hendler Jan 22, 2008 at 05:11 PM
McClatchy’s Tim Johnson reports from Islamabad that Musharraf has agreed to let GEO TV broadcast. GEO is one of a... More
The Candidates did the Dirty Work
CNN didn’t get a chance to look bad
By Clint Hendler Jan 22, 2008 at 12:13 PM
On January 15, the last time Clinton, Edwards, and Obama met to debate, NBC moderators Tim Russert and Brian Williams... More
Laurel to the editorial staff of Stars and Stripes
Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
By Clint Hendler Jan 22, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Laurel to the editorial staff of Stars and Stripes for uncovering a murky financial relationship between its paper and the... More
L’Affaire Scaife
Vanity Fair chimes in
By Clint Hendler Jan 21, 2008 at 05:24 PM
Vanity Fair has managed to obtain what it describes as Richard Mellon Scaife’s first interview in eight years. Alas, the... More
Delegate This
Clinton did not win the Nevada “vote”
By Clint Hendler Jan 21, 2008 at 04:10 PM
Ah, primary season! That magical time every four years when the press, the candidates, the donors, and the handlers scrutinize... More
Revisiting the New Hampshire Polls
Trade group readies a panel
By Clint Hendler Jan 14, 2008 at 03:42 PM
The American Association for Public Opinion Research, a trade association of pollsters, announced today that it will convene an ad-hoc... More
The Candidates’ own Health Care
Rovner asks a good question, gets few answers
By Clint Hendler Jan 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM
This morning Julie Rovner, NPR’s ace healthcare reporter (read her November/December Q&A with CJR), turned in an excellent listener-inspired piece... More
Dowd in Derry
Or Maybe Not
By Clint Hendler Jan 11, 2008 at 01:27 PM
Props to Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo for digging this up: Maureen Dowd’s New Hampshire morning-after column was probably... More
The Polls: What the #$!% Happened?
ABC’s pollster surveys the wreckage
By Clint Hendler Jan 9, 2008 at 05:12 PM
Polls taken after the Iowa caucus and before the New Hampshire primary consistently showed Barack Obama beating Hillary Clinton—by as... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
