Bin Laden Unnerved by al Qaeda Magazine

By Joel Meares   May 12, 2011 at 03:29 PM

ProPublica’s Sebastian Rotella has spoken to “two U.S. officials familiar with material seized during the raid that killed bin Laden”... More

Australian Media CEO’s Embarrassing Memo Mistake

Confirming eighty-two firings with “track changes” in place

By Joel Meares   May 12, 2011 at 11:04 AM

What could be more embarrassing to a reporter than the incident from a couple of months ago when The Washington... More

A 60 Percent Osama Bump?

New approval rating raises a flap

By Joel Meares   May 11, 2011 at 03:54 PM

An interesting debate about polling samples is underway this afternoon in the wake of a very encouraging new set of... More

Morning Joe Puts Madoff on the Couch

By Joel Meares   May 11, 2011 at 12:53 PM

My colleague Curtis Brainard has written about the media’s inclination to offer loose psychological evaluations of high profile meltdown types... More

A Mining Disaster Follow-up Follows the Money

L.A. Times’s revealing report on inaction after the WV coal mine explosion

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

A belated laurel to the Los Angeles Times team of Kim Geiger, Tom Hamburger, and Doug Smith, of the paper’s... More

Tina, Tina Everywhere

By Joel Meares   May 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM

Peter Stevenson’s 5,000-word New York Times magazine profile of wunderkind “editrix” Tina Brown is a well-written, well-reported, breezy-enough read. It’s... More

The Royals Ban Satirical Coverage of Kate and Wills’ Big Day

A video feed rule change and CJR’s call for a royal boycott

By Joel Meares   Apr 27, 2011 at 02:38 PM

Finally, CJR finds a Royal Wedding angle. It comes to us all the way from Sydney, Australia, where the national... More

AP and Guild Reach Tentative Deal

Wait to see if workers agree on 401(k)-style pension plan

By Joel Meares   Apr 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM

A little slow getting to this, but as of Friday the Associated Press and the News Media Guild, which represents... More

The Guantánamo Files

A roundup of the latest WikiLeaks dump

By Joel Meares   Apr 25, 2011 at 01:11 PM

A cache of 759 files leaked by WikiLeaks to ten news partners—and subsequently leaked to three non-partner outlets—is the fourth... More

Testing the Truth-o-Meter

PolitiFact’s editor on those fiery pants

By Joel Meares   Apr 21, 2011 at 06:05 PM

I never thought I’d hear a grown man say he was “comfortable that ‘pants on fire’ was the right... More

Tributes from Colleagues to Killed War Photographers

By Joel Meares   Apr 21, 2011 at 10:36 AM

With the news that documentarian and photographer Tim Hetherington died yesterday in Libya, and, later, the confirmation that photographer... More

Misinformation On Killed and Injured Photographers

Sad news brings a lesson on caution

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 03:59 PM

There has been much confusion in the wake of reports that documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed today in... More

HuffPo Strong on North Carolina Benefits Expiring

Arthur Delaney’s solid unemployment reporting

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 01:08 PM

The Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney has been doing some solid work following an important unemployment and budget story out... More

Presidential “Outburst” Much Ado About Nothing

But Obama could have offered alternative critique

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM

The magical algorithms that rank the importance and popularity of the day’s political stories at the website Memeorandum had... More

James O’Keefe’s Bizarre (and brilliant?) Landrieu Dance

By Joel Meares   Apr 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM

Say what you will about James O’Keefe, the videographer and self-described journalist famous for his ACORN and NPR stings,... More