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Science Journalism
Past, present, and futuristic
By Curtis Brainard Feb 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Around the block from the Miracle of Science café, in a corner of Cambridge surrounding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,... More
Dispatches from AAAS
A few thoughts on meeting’s media-oriented panels
By Curtis Brainard Feb 19, 2008 at 08:00 AM
Despite the surge of recent interest in environmental articles, global warming remains a “fourth-tier” story in the press. So said... More
Dispatches from AAAS
The big news from the annual science conference
By Curtis Brainard Feb 18, 2008 at 03:45 PM
Boston - The American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting concluded here today. Every year, the extravaganza inspires... More
The Environment, Writ Small
Regional coverage has struggled to connect candidates’ general goals to local needs
By Curtis Brainard Feb 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM
On Monday, the day before the presidential primaries in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun published what has now become a... More
Blue Genes (or Red)
Are liberal/conservative political beliefs heritable?
By Curtis Brainard Feb 13, 2008 at 02:35 PM
On Monday, I wrote a column about "neuropunditry," a new trend in campaign journalism. Basically, it is the idea that... More
Columbia Presents 2007 Oakes Awards
Winners cover radioactive pollution, coastal erosion, and melting ice caps
By Curtis Brainard Feb 12, 2008 at 12:55 PM
For the second year in a row, the Los Angeles Times carried home the annual John B. Oakes Award for... More
Beware of “Neuropunditry”
Slate keeps tabs on a flimsy new trend
By Curtis Brainard Feb 11, 2008 at 12:22 PM
On Super Tuesday, CNN broadcast a weak science news segment about a brain-imaging machine that the reporter called a "neurological... More
Obama’s Energy Equivocations
NYT follows up on another flip-flop
By Curtis Brainard Feb 5, 2008 at 08:52 AM
A little more than a year ago, Barack Obama caused a bit of an uproar when he introduced legislation in... More
GOP Candidates Back Emissions Waiver
Who saw that consensus coming?
By Curtis Brainard Feb 1, 2008 at 03:14 PM
Earlier this week, I posted a column about an editorial in The Sacramento Bee, which pressed all the presidential candidates... More
A “Slow-Blog” Movement?
Clinton’s cryptic quote causes frustration
By Curtis Brainard Feb 1, 2008 at 03:06 PM
A cryptic quote from Bill Clinton about how dealing with climate change will affect the economy is causing quite a... More
WSJ Launches New Environment Blog
Is this Murdoch’s influence?
By Curtis Brainard Jan 31, 2008 at 12:40 PM
The Wall Street Journal launched a new environment blog yesterday, called Environmental Capital. It stirred some immediate debate over at... More
The Candidates on California’s Emissions Waiver
The SacBee gets some answers, sort of
By Curtis Brainard Jan 29, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Since the Iowa caucuses, campaign-trail discourse about climate change and energy has waned. "Media consign global warming to back burner,"... More
News Director Quits Over Hospital Deal
WEAU-TV in Wisconsin’s arrangement called unethical
By Curtis Brainard Jan 25, 2008 at 09:37 AM
A week and a half ago, Glen Mabie resigned as news director for WEAU-TV in Eau Claire, Wisconsin after one... More
Bismarck Tribune Walks a Tightrope
Carbon series balances concerns for climate and local economy
By Curtis Brainard Jan 24, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Global warming, as the name implies, is a whole-Earth problem. The climate does not differentiate between greenhouse gases produced in... More
The MRSA-Gay Connection
Press slaps its own wrist for mischaracterizing research
By Curtis Brainard Jan 22, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The press performed a minor mea culpa over the weekend, explaining that a new multidrug-resistant and especially virulent strain of... More
Journalism 2.0 on Science 2.0
How the Web is shaping next-generation reporting
By Curtis Brainard Jan 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Web 2.0 - the "second generation" Internet of user-oriented social networks, wikis, blogs, and information-tagging devices - has spawned at... More
Pushing for a Science Debate
Journalists join effort to convince the candidates
By Curtis Brainard Jan 15, 2008 at 08:00 AM
The day after the New Hampshire primary, the CEO of Clean Air-Cool Planet, an environmental group, contributed an op-ed to... More
CJR Launches The Observatory
A new department to critique the coverage of science and the environment
By Curtis Brainard Jan 15, 2008 at 07:00 AM
Columbia Journalism Review is proud to announce the launch of The Observatory, a full-time department dedicated to critiquing the press... More
Rolling Craps in New Hampshire
The storied prediction markets fared little better than the polls
By Curtis Brainard Jan 11, 2008 at 09:52 AM
Journalists, politicians and statisticians continue to scramble to figure out why, exactly, the polls predicting an easy victory for Barack... More
“Pundits, Savants and Gurus,” Oh My!
The slow dissolution of conventional wisdom at CNN
By Curtis Brainard Jan 9, 2008 at 03:46 PM
Two minutes before the polls closed in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, CNN's Jeff Toobin said to Anderson Cooper, "I'm... 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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
