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A Fresh Angle on Health Care? Leonhardt Delivers
By Holly Yeager Mar 24, 2010 at 01:02 PM
We’ve given the Times’s David Leonhardt credit before for economic writing that threads the tricky “news analysis” needle, and, in... More
WaPo’s Divorce-in-the-Downturn Story Needs Data Injection
By Holly Yeager Mar 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM
The Washington Post takes a longish look at another slice of life in the downturn: divorce. This is a story... More
Scoring the CBO Score
By Holly Yeager Mar 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM
Amid all the spinning and sparring over the Congressional Budget Office’s assessment of health care legislation, a couple of stories... More
Tax Talk
By Holly Yeager Mar 18, 2010 at 02:09 PM
It might not be a full-fledged meme change, but the idea that tax increases could really be on tap has... More
Audit D.C. Notes: The Post on Chamber Politics, Roll Call on K St. Pay, Hoop Dreams
By Holly Yeager Mar 17, 2010 at 04:07 PM
The Chamber of Commerce, that under-covered business behemoth, gets welcome attention from The Washington Post, which reports on the group’s... More
CBS Throws Debt Numbers Against Wall
By Holly Yeager Mar 17, 2010 at 12:23 PM
CBS News is getting a lot of diggs, tweets and shares for its story on the latest national debt numbers... More
Audit D.C. Notes: The FT Looks at the Lobbyist Set; WSJ on Credit Agencies, NPR on the Dow, Etc.
By Holly Yeager Mar 16, 2010 at 04:02 PM
The Financial Times takes a look something that all too often gets treated like wallpaper in Washington, the persistent power... More
Reporting from the Examining Room
By Holly Yeager Mar 16, 2010 at 12:55 PM
The New York Times gets credit for going where few bother, into the examining rooms of doctors who see Medicaid... More
Audit D.C. Notes: NYT Does Well at (Trade) School; WaPo on Earmarks, Squeezed in Ypsilanti, Etc.
By Holly Yeager Mar 15, 2010 at 04:01 PM
The New York Times continues its excellent series on “The New Poor” with a look at the for-profit colleges and... More
China Stories: Good, Bad, Indifferent
By Holly Yeager Mar 15, 2010 at 12:57 PM
There’s unusual depth to today’s flurry of China coverage, and that’s a good thing—mostly. The New York Times gets the... More
Audit D.C. Notes: WSJ Good on Wall Street Muni Fees; Newsweek on Design, Bloomberg Goes Contrarian on Obama, Etc.
By Holly Yeager Mar 10, 2010 at 03:54 PM
The Wall Street Journal digs into Build America Bonds, enacted as part of last year’s stimulus plan “to create jobs... More
A Weak Excuse for an Unemployment Story
By Holly Yeager Mar 9, 2010 at 02:44 PM
The Washington Post takes some Senate bait for its page-one story about the long-term unemployed, and the result, is, well,... More
Support for WSJ’s Jobs Optimism is Thin
By Holly Yeager Mar 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM
There’s plenty of green-shoot glory in the Journal’s Ahead of the Tape column, which uses accelerating corporate profits to help... More
NYT’s Rose-Colored Small Biz Scenario
By Holly Yeager Mar 4, 2010 at 01:03 PM
The New York Times paints an awfully pretty picture of older workers who decide to launch their own businesses. Trouble... More
Meme Change
By Holly Yeager Mar 3, 2010 at 12:50 PM
It looks like an economic meme change is on the way, with some thoughtful columnists charting the course. The Times’s... 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)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
