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And They Smoke Too Much, Too!
Take that, Pau Gasol
By Justin Peters Aug 13, 2008 at 05:45 PM
The best media response so far to what The New York Times's Harvey Araton called "the Spanish slant-eye controversy?" No,... More
North Korea’s Creepy, Totalitarian Olympics
North Korea’s Mass Games are surreal, photogenic
By Justin Peters Aug 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM
The Boston Phoenix's Web site features a captivating photo essay on the Mass Games, North Korea's creepy annual homegrown take... More
Adventures in Exurbia
LAT exurbs story sounds a familiar note
By Justin Peters Aug 12, 2008 at 01:39 PM
Today’s Los Angeles Times gives front page play to Peter Wallsten’s story about how the slumping economy may drive residents... More
Mystery Foot Mystery Gets Some Press
MSBNC stops dragging its feet
By Justin Peters Aug 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM
So these disembodied feet have been sporadically washing ashore in British Columbia and Washington state for a few years... More
“A Lack Of Corroboration”
Enquirer 1, MSM 0
By Justin Peters Aug 8, 2008 at 04:52 PM
So, yeah, looks like the National Enquirer was onto something after all with those John Edwards-Rielle Hunter allegations. Wondering why... More
Cool Your Jets
NY sportswriters celebrate the Brett Favre trade
By Justin Peters Aug 7, 2008 at 12:28 PM
How do New York sportswriters feel about the recent trade that brought former Packers quarterback Brett Favre to the New... More
Secrets and Lies
More thoughts on ABC News’s anthrax-sourcing scandal
By Justin Peters Aug 6, 2008 at 03:57 PM
As of yet, ABC News and Brian Ross have kept mum on the identities of their sources in 2001's now-discredited... More
Single Greatest Media Scandal Of The Decade
A true outrage
By Justin Peters Aug 6, 2008 at 12:40 PM
So there's a tide of severed human feet washing up on Pacific Northwestern shores, and it only merits a 300-word... More
Three More Questions for ABC News
Getting to the bottom of the bentonite sourcing story
By Justin Peters Aug 5, 2008 at 12:26 PM
On Sunday and Monday, journalism professors Jay Rosen and Dan Gillmor issued “three vital questions for ABC News” regarding its... More
We’re Not In The Dog-Shooting Business, We’re In The Mayor-Frightening Business!
By Justin Peters Jul 31, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Bizarre WaPo story today about an ill-fated police raid in Prince George's County that started with a mysterious thirty-two pound... More
True Lies
WaPo gets it right in its coverage of McCain’s recent ad
By Justin Peters Jul 30, 2008 at 01:36 PM
On Monday, Megan Garber criticized the MSM for its failure to dissect a recent John McCain ad that hurled factually... More
Worst. Years. Ever.
Five other terrible years in modern newspaper history
By Justin Peters Jul 24, 2008 at 04:15 PM
Revenues shrinking to MicroMachine proportions, newsroom jobs disappearing like sand under a rising tide, "They'll Do It Every Time" discontinued:... More
Campaign Plane Follies
By Justin Peters Jul 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM
So The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza writes a long, unsentimental story about Barack Obama last week, and then, wouldn't you... More
Trends Will Be Trends
Five new story ideas for NYT Style reporter Guy Trebay
By Justin Peters Jul 16, 2008 at 12:16 PM
I really hope that New York Times reporter Guy Trebay is working on a follow-up to his Sunday Styles piece... More
Balanced Budget, “Balanced” Coverage
Los Angeles Times scrutinizes Obama’s economic proposals, gives McCain a pass
By Justin Peters Jul 8, 2008 at 04:18 PM
The political press's nasty habit of reporting the debate instead of the issues being debated cropped up again today in... More
Why Buy The Cow…
By Justin Peters Jul 3, 2008 at 03:11 PM
Thoughtful post today about the newspaper industry on the New York Times's Outposts blog. In the wake of "perhaps the... More
Behind Barack’s “Suspicious” Mortgage
Why did the Post run its Obama mortgage story?
By Justin Peters Jul 2, 2008 at 01:05 PM
What should an editor do when an enterprise piece comes up empty? Do you kill the story? Send it back... More
The Swiftboat Reflex
Wesley Clark fallout, day two
By Justin Peters Jul 1, 2008 at 01:19 PM
Two days into the Wesley Clark fallout, the press, the GOP, and the Obama campaign all seem to have agreed... More
Pavlov and the Press Corps
Unity Day, the press, and Obama’s unstoppable campaign narrative
By Justin Peters Jun 27, 2008 at 01:52 PM
What's one thing that most journalists love? Besides a battered fedora with a cardboard press pass stuck in the brim.... More
McClatchy on McClatchy
McClatchy newspapers cover their own demise
By Justin Peters Jun 18, 2008 at 01:48 PM
After Monday’s news that the McClatchy Company would be cutting 1400 jobs at its newspapers across the country, the affected... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
