He-Said She-Said and Death Panels

A Q&A with the Manship School’s Dr. Regina Lawrence

By Joel Meares   May 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM

Almost two years ago, former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin sent out her infamous “death panels” post on Facebook. The... More

A Soros Problem at NPR

The broadcaster ducks again when it should be swinging

By Joel Meares   May 25, 2011 at 12:19 PM

In what will presumably be one of her final columns as NPR ombudswoman, Alicia Shepard has chosen to address concerns... More

Squawk on the Street’s Haines Dies at 65

By Joel Meares   May 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM

CNBC’s Mark Haines died unexpectedly Tuesday night at age 65. Haines was the founding anchor of the network’s popular... More

Does Roger Ailes Think Sarah Palin Is an Idiot?

By Joel Meares   May 24, 2011 at 03:12 PM

A bit of Palin overload today at CJR, but the former governor of Alaska has popped up in another... More

Palin’s Speechwriter Undone by Nasty Messages

Source asks for cash

By Joel Meares   May 24, 2011 at 01:58 PM

Daily Caller reporter Jonathan Strong has quite the scoop this morning—a series of direct Tweets from Palin speechwriter and... More

Times’s Bruni Becomes Paper’s First Openly Gay Columnist

By Joel Meares   May 24, 2011 at 12:17 PM

In March we asked our readers whom they thought The New York Times should hire to replace op-ed writers Bob... More

Three Journalists Released From Captivity In Libya

By Joel Meares   May 20, 2011 at 09:47 AM

In the opening shot of our May/June magazine we made mention of four journalists that had been captured in Libya... More

Counting Down to Countdown on Letterman

By Joel Meares   May 19, 2011 at 12:29 PM

Keith Olbermann sat down with David Letterman last night to talk MSNBC, 2012, and his new venture, Countdown with Keith... More

Charlie LeDuff’s LeDuff-ian Take on the Schwarzenegger Affair

By Joel Meares   May 19, 2011 at 10:49 AM

By now most outlets are running the name of the woman with whom Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered his “love child,” and... More

WaPo Has a Lesson For You

Journalists steer the course in new online classes

By Joel Meares   May 18, 2011 at 04:14 PM

Newspapers have been getting into some rather non-newspapery businesses of late: from the now-ubiquitous wine clubs to The New York... More

Two Tone Deaf Defenses of Strauss-Kahn

By Joel Meares   May 17, 2011 at 04:08 PM

There has, admittedly, been a sort of assumption of guilt from the media in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair—the brutal... More

L.A. Times Breaks Schwarzenegger Love Child Story

As restrained a sex-scandal story as you’re likely to get

By Joel Meares   May 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM

A busy two weeks for political sex scandals, first with John Ensign, then Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and now… Arnie. The... More

Columbia J-School launches The New York World

By Joel Meares   May 16, 2011 at 03:11 PM

Lots of hubbub today at the Columbia University Journalism building in which we CJR staffers toil away. Not only do... More

NYT On Why Journalists Like to Compare Presidents

Did anybody think to ask journalists?

By Joel Meares   May 16, 2011 at 02:37 PM

The New York Times’s Peter Baker had a piece in Sunday’s paper dealing with an issue close to many hearts... More

Romney on Romneycare is a Bust

Conservatives are not buying Mitt’s Michigan speech

By Joel Meares   May 13, 2011 at 02:57 PM

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to a stage in Ann Arbor yesterday to twist and turn his way through... More