Meltdown

By Clint Hendler   Feb 18, 2010 at 02:14 PM

As the Northeast digs and melts its way out from feet of snow, now seems like a fine time to... More

Let the speculation begin!

By Clint Hendler   Feb 17, 2010 at 03:46 PM

From James Rainey’s column in today’s Los Angeles Times on Ira Glass and his radio show, This American Life: In... More

CJR on the Polks

Past coverage of today’s winners

By Clint Hendler   Feb 16, 2010 at 04:50 PM

This morning, the administrators of the Polk Awards, one of journalism’s most prestigious prizes, announced 2009’s recipients. We’ve structured this... More

Oh, Sh__!

By Clint Hendler   Feb 15, 2010 at 05:34 PM

Take a look, folks, at how Politico’s effort to avoid offending our delicate sensibilities by blanking out most of a... More

The Times doubles up on Information Access

By Clint Hendler   Feb 15, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Yesterday The New York Times turned in two stories on news organizations’ recent usage of the Freedom of Information Act... More

Tonight on Channel 5: Some Say They’re Terrorists…

…Tune in tomorrow for the facts

By Clint Hendler   Feb 12, 2010 at 03:33 PM

If you watched NewsChannel 5’s two night "investigation" last week of allegations of terrorist training at Islamville, a Muslim "compound"... More

Flip Through The Years, with Palin and Fey

By Clint Hendler   Feb 9, 2010 at 11:08 AM

The Magazine Publishers of America and the American Society of Magazine Editors have jointly produced a neat little video that... More

The Press After Citizens United

Campaign finance experts chime in on a new era

By Clint Hendler   Feb 5, 2010 at 02:21 PM

Over the last two weeks, reporters covering campaign finance have ably chronicled the scope and effects of the bitterly divided... More

The Washington Post Scrubs a Post about the Post

And readers would never know

By Clint Hendler   Jan 29, 2010 at 07:00 AM

On Wednesday, Bill Turque, the Washington Post’s education beat reporter, posted an excellent blog item showing his readers a little... More

Administration says Open Gov Directive on track

By Clint Hendler   Jan 14, 2010 at 04:23 PM

With about a week to go before their first deadline, the Obama administration is saying that the Open Government Directive,... More

Deep Trouble

Halperin and Heilemann’s game-changing attribution

By Clint Hendler   Jan 12, 2010 at 04:09 PM

Is there a single journalistic quirk more likely to cause post-publication tsuris than the varying taxonomies of “off the record,”... More

Source says: President likes Puppies, Rainbows

By Clint Hendler   Jan 6, 2010 at 11:32 AM

In CJR's just published report card on the Obama administration's first year transparency record, I gave the White House an... More

Report Card

Obama’s marks at Transparency U.

By Clint Hendler   Jan 5, 2010 at 12:00 AM

In the year since President Obama took office, he has made significant progress on transparency and access issues. Still, there... More

Best of 2009: Clint Hendler

Hendler picks his top stories from 2009

By Clint Hendler   Dec 30, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Carl Malamud, Public Printer You may have never heard of the Government Printing Office, a massive bureaucracy that’s responsible for... More

Q&A: Bill Leonard

A former government classification watchdog explains a year-end deadline

By Clint Hendler   Dec 18, 2009 at 02:47 PM

You’ve heard of the climate deadline looming in Copenhagen, and the health care deadline looming on Capitol Hill. But this... More