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Audit D.C. Notes: Collender on reconciliation; WSJ on stalled jobs
By Holly Yeager Mar 2, 2010 at 06:16 PM
--Stan Collender shows why he’s considered one of Washington’s brighter budget bulbs, with a Roll Call column that explains why... More
Lessons in Rahmology
The arc of a who’s-up, who’s-down story
By Holly Yeager Mar 2, 2010 at 03:42 PM
The Washington Post gives White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel the page-one attention that befits this big personality with... More
Perspective, Please, on China
By Holly Yeager Mar 1, 2010 at 02:34 PM
The New York Times added to the unstoppable-China meta-narrative over the weekend with an interesting report from the country’s industrial... More
A Few Sour Notes In National Journal’s Chamber Piece
By Holly Yeager Feb 26, 2010 at 10:37 AM
National Journal goes in a good direction this week, with a long look at a powerful Washington institution that gets... More
On Bad Times, Times Does Good
By Holly Yeager Feb 22, 2010 at 03:18 PM
With the unemployment rate hovering near 10 percent and a staggering 6.3 million people jobless for six months or more—the... More
Some Stimulus Coverage More Stimulating Than Others
By Holly Yeager Feb 18, 2010 at 05:22 PM
On the year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, figuring out good ways to cover the stimulus is... More
A Grecian Formula for Globalized News
By Holly Yeager Feb 16, 2010 at 11:20 AM
The New York Times had a strong Sunday story about Wall Street’s role in masking the Greek debt that is... More
Bond Market Blow-Ups
By Holly Yeager Feb 5, 2010 at 02:21 PM
If another reminder is needed that we should all pay more attention to the bond market, the Greek debt crisis... More
Target-Rich Environment
By Holly Yeager Feb 2, 2010 at 02:34 PM
We’re all for flood-the-zone coverage of the budget, so a tip of The Audit’s green eyeshade to The Wall Street... More
Running the Numbers on Obama’s State of the Union
By Holly Yeager Jan 28, 2010 at 02:02 PM
It is nice to know how many times President Obama’s State of the Union address was interrupted by applause (eighty-six,... More
Audit D.C. Notes: Take a bow, NYT; LAT on foreign bonds; a WSJ tweak, etc.
By Holly Yeager Jan 27, 2010 at 03:11 PM
What with the jumble of spending freeze/deficit projection/debt commission/federal budget/State of the Union coverage out there, it wouldn’t surprise us... More
Freeze, Framed
By Holly Yeager Jan 26, 2010 at 02:39 PM
Hello, my name is Holly, and I’ll be your fiscal-and-economic-policy-coverage media critic here at The Audit. Would you like freeze... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
