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Down Mexico Way
Washington Post and Mother Jones with good stories on corruption in the Mexican army
By Greg Marx Jul 9, 2009 at 01:17 PM
In recent months, as The Washington Post has been forced to part with veteran editorial staffers, the paper has also... More
The Economy Today: On the Roads
A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx Jul 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM
The big economic news of the morning, reported by The Wall Street Journal and others, is that new claims for... More
Was Douthat (Kinda, Sorta) Right?
Faint evidence for his class-based argument about Palin’s appeal
By Greg Marx Jul 8, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Ross Douthat came in for criticism around the Web (including here at CJR) for his Monday column arguing that Sarah... More
The Economy Today: Speculators and Stimuli
Headlines from D.C., Seattle, St. Louis, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx Jul 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Two big economic questions that have been percolating recently rise to the top of the news today: Does something need... More
Atlantic Editor Bennet on His Magazine’s “Salons”
His thoughts on the salons’ journalistic value, or lack thereof
By Greg Marx Jul 8, 2009 at 08:29 AM
Of all the different threads of the past week’s SalonGate flap, one of the most interesting has been the widely... More
The Uighur Picture
NPR’s Gifford offers insights on events in Urumqi
By Greg Marx Jul 7, 2009 at 02:45 PM
The latest unrest in China has turned the world’s attention (well, that portion of the world not watching Michael Jackson’s... More
The Economy Today: Egg Donors and Food Stamps
Headlines from Texas, California, Oregon, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx Jul 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Stories about the slow distribution of stimulus funds are a dime a dozen these days, but The Wall Street Journal... More
Inside Atlantic Media’s “Unique, Content-Rich” Dinner Events
By Greg Marx Jul 6, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Zachary Roth of TPM Muckraker advances the ball on the WaPo “salon” story today, noting that Atlantic Media has been... More
Where’d the Money Go?
Times story overlooks insurer’s contributions
By Greg Marx Jul 6, 2009 at 03:12 PM
The New York Times today offers a dispatch on the health care debate from Maine, home of an endangered species:... More
Pew Poll: Palin Polarizes Public
Douthat misreads data in piece on Palin’s purported popularity
By Greg Marx Jul 6, 2009 at 01:27 PM
A big part of Sarah Palin’s appeal has always been that she had the right enemies. Palin’s resentment of sneering... More
The Economy Today: Giving up the Ghostboxes
Headlines from Texas, Arizona, Michigan, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx Jul 6, 2009 at 10:51 AM
With the search still underway for concrete signs of widespread economic recovery, The New York Times leads today with reason... More
More PitneyGate Fallout?
Press focused on who asked questions at Obama town hall
By Greg Marx Jul 2, 2009 at 03:55 PM
We may, thankfully, be putting Pitneygate behind us. But reading through press coverage of President Obama’s town hall meeting on... More
More on WaPo Salon Deal
By Greg Marx Jul 2, 2009 at 02:59 PM
Andy Alexander, ombudsman for the Post, has now weighed in on the “salon” scandal. His post provides some news about... More
Brauchli On WaPo Salons
By Greg Marx Jul 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM
In the wake of Mike Allen’s story in Politico this morning about The Washington Post advertising “salons” at which deep-pocketed... More
The Economy Today: School’s Out
With Money Tight, Classes Are Slashed
By Greg Marx Jul 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM
The New York Times leads its print edition with a dispatch about the latest victim of the recession: summer school.... More
Good News, For a Change
Non-profit consortium launches Investigative News Network
By Greg Marx Jul 1, 2009 at 05:57 PM
With the near-daily drip of bleak news about the journalism world (today’s edition: Gannett reportedly plans to cut at least... More
Normalizing the Filibuster
The Senate’s peculiar institution gets taken for granted
By Greg Marx Jul 1, 2009 at 04:22 PM
Yesterday, the Minnesota Supreme Court finally made official what had for months seemed a foregone conclusion: Al Franken will be... More
The Economy Today: Happy New (Fiscal) Year
Economic headlines from California, Utah, North Dakota, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx Jul 1, 2009 at 12:04 PM
The arrival of July brings the start of the fiscal year and a statutory deadline for new budgets in many... More
Mad Men
Post doesn’t parse the practical political consequences of public anger
By Greg Marx Mar 18, 2009 at 03:21 PM
Everybody’s angry over the AIG bonus scandal. You’re angry, I’m angry, Congress is angry. Inuit fishermen who have no contact... More
The Chas Freeman Frenzy
The New York Times sits out a contentious foreign policy story
By Greg Marx Mar 13, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Over the past few weeks, the American foreign policy community worked itself into something resembling a frenzy over the appointment... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
