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Tucker Carlson on the virtue of interruptions
We shouldn’t be surprised it was a Daily Caller reporter who interrupted Obama
By Greg Marx Jun 15, 2012 at 04:30 PM
“Most speakers hate to be interrupted, but I enjoy it, having spent about 10 years in cable news getting interrupted... More
Sunlight’s Scout is a promising new tool
Service allows journalists to track activity in Congress, federal agencies, state legislatures
By Greg Marx Jun 15, 2012 at 12:43 PM
The busy folks at Sunlight Labs recently unveiled a nifty new feature that should be useful for advocates, policy wonks,... More
Smart Post piece asks: Do campaign ads work?
Campaign cash is eye-popping, but impact at presidential level is likely limited
By Greg Marx Jun 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM
I’m late to this, but The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi had a sharp piece the other day about the uses... More
How to cover the birthers? Denver Post shows what not to do
After paper asks readers for their “take,” radio host offers his
By Greg Marx Jun 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
On Thursday, CJR published pieces by Walter Shapiro and Brendan Nyhan that grapple with the question of how journalists can... More
LA Times tries to unmask dark money donors
But story’s greatest virtue may be its look at where campaign cash goes
By Greg Marx May 30, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Earlier this week, Matea Gold and Joseph Tanfani of the Los Angeles Times teamed up for a sharp article about... More
Welcome to the blogosphere, Mischiefs of Faction
A promising new poli-sci site takes a close look at modern political parties
By Greg Marx May 30, 2012 at 12:29 PM
The rise of ideologically coherent, well-disciplined political parties is probably the key fact to focus on if you want to... More
Don’t take my traditional Internet away!
TPM’s sensible business moves make a devoted Web user anxious
By Greg Marx May 17, 2012 at 07:10 PM
Over at Nieman Lab, Adrienne LaFrance has an interesting interview with Talking Points Memo publisher Josh Marshall about his efforts... More
A Belated Hat-Tip to the Herald’s Trayvon Tick-Tock
By Greg Marx Apr 6, 2012 at 11:01 AM
I contributed the portion of our roundup of Trayvon Martin coverage that focused on what had been reported about the... More
What Santorum Didn’t Say
On “phony ideology,” some coverage misses a distinction
By Greg Marx Feb 22, 2012 at 05:52 PM
As he tries to cement his newfound position as a leader in the Republican presidential primary campaign, Rick Santorum has... More
Three Thoughts on Mitt Romney’s ‘Very Poor’ Day
What makes for a gaffe, what Medicaid really does, and what lame questions!
By Greg Marx Feb 1, 2012 at 05:07 PM
Herewith, a trio of thoughts on the political-media story that won the day on February 1: Mitt Romney’s statement on... More
What the Fact-Checkers Get Wrong
The language of Politifact and its peers doesn’t match their project
By Greg Marx Jan 5, 2012 at 06:00 AM
In the waning days of 2011, Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, brought the wrath of the liberal blog world... More
Rick’s Relevant Now
By Greg Marx Jan 4, 2012 at 12:46 PM
How far has Rick Santorum come to his place in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney at the Iowa Republican... More
Power of Dispassion
Alan Schwarz changed football
By Greg Marx Dec 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM
On October 17, 2010, the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Atlanta Falcons before a crowd of nearly 70,000. The game... More
There Is Bipartisan Consensus on Taxes
And it’s making it harder to close the deficit
By Greg Marx Nov 21, 2011 at 05:43 PM
With the congressional “supercommittee” unable to agree on a deal to cut the deficit, the theme of this morning’s coverage... More
It Wasn’t ‘Liberal Media’ That Froze Out Bachmann
And why the press is right to focus on the front-runners
By Greg Marx Nov 14, 2011 at 02:39 PM
Over the weekend, a media micro-controversy broke out: CBS News political director and Slate reporter John Dickerson wrote in an... More
It’s Good to be the Former First Daughter
By Greg Marx Nov 14, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Bill Carter of The New York Times writes this morning that Chelsea Clinton will be joining NBC News, effective immediately,... More
At GOP Debate, Good Work by CNBC
Will the rest of the media take the opportunity to follow up?
By Greg Marx Nov 10, 2011 at 05:01 PM
There’s an obvious top story coming out of last night’s Republican presidential debate: Rick Perry’s “oops” moment, which reinforced a... More
More Than One Way to ‘Keep it Sparse’
By Greg Marx Nov 10, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Among the write-ups of last night’s GOP debate is an entry from Politico that is notable because it is just... More
On Cain Story, Politico Had Grounds to Publish
Despite the story’s flaws
By Greg Marx Nov 5, 2011 at 03:25 PM
Jack Shafer and Stephen Engelberg haven’t changed their minds: Politico, they still believe, made a journalistic error when it decided... More
AP Finds Republican Candidates MIA on Housing Debt
A presidential “ghost issue” demands further press attention
By Greg Marx Nov 1, 2011 at 02:27 PM
The Associated Press put out a good story over the weekend noting that many of the “jobs plans” being pushed... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
