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Social Democrats?
For the Democratic Party, social issues are economic issues
By Lester Feder Aug 18, 2008 at 01:38 PM
In the history of the Democratic Party that Michael Lind laid out Friday in Salon, Democrats abandoned economic liberalism for... More
White Flight… In Heels
Stories about Obama’s “white male problem” only present half the story
By Lester Feder Aug 13, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Predicting the election outcome from August polls is not much more accurate than reading tea leaves. As the presidential race... More
Poll Dancing
Speculation on Obama’s poll numbers says more about commentators than about Obama
By Lester Feder Aug 5, 2008 at 12:05 PM
The 2008 presidential race has reached a turning point—or at least the pundit chatter has. Judging by the flood of... More
Guilt Trip
More complaints about the media’s supposed pro-Obama bias
By Lester Feder Jul 23, 2008 at 02:26 PM
What with Barack Obama jetting about the world, buddying up to King Abdullah and all, it has been especially difficult... More
A Matter of Opinion
The tortured reasoning behind the Times’ rejection of McCain’s op-ed
By Lester Feder Jul 22, 2008 at 05:01 PM
"It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece" on the Iraq War,... More
Courting the Evangelicals
A WSJ op-ed asks the convenient questions, but not the important ones
By Lester Feder Jul 18, 2008 at 04:04 PM
"Evangelicals Haven't Embraced the Democrats’ Agenda," crows Naomi Schaefer Riley in today's Wall Street Journal, gleefully dismissing Barack Obama's attempts... More
Running On Faith
Newsweek’s cover story gets beyond Reverend Wright
By Lester Feder Jul 17, 2008 at 01:14 PM
With all the rumors swirling around Barack Obama's faith, the teaser for Newsweek's July 21st cover story—"The Truth about Barack... More
Old News
Reporters take the wrong angle on the question of McCain’s age
By Lester Feder Jul 15, 2008 at 02:50 PM
Is John McCain too senile to be president? The quotes used by the AP's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar to contextualize a new... More
The Ol’ Waffle Brush
Lessons to take away from the candidates’ recent “policy shifts”
By Lester Feder Jul 11, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Do you remember the positions that George W. Bush and Al Gore held on preemptive war during the 2000 presidential... More
The (Chief) Justice League
Has Roberts really engineered a Supreme détente?
By Lester Feder Jul 8, 2008 at 01:50 PM
Who's the most cuddly Supreme Court justice? There's little doubt that Chief Justice John Roberts is the most handsome, but... More
Dreams of My… Grandparents?
Obama’s latest ad strategically omits all mention of his father
By Lester Feder Jun 20, 2008 at 01:47 PM
On Wednesday, the New York Times ran a story about the Obama campaign's tightening image machine. Exhibit A was an... More
McCain’s “Incoherent” Environmentalism
Drilling into press coverage of McCain’s environmental policy shift
By Lester Feder Jun 19, 2008 at 11:18 AM
In a press release last month, Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign touted various media reports, like this one from the... More
The Devil in the Details
Polls reinforce reporters’ stereotypes about evangelicals
By Lester Feder Jun 5, 2008 at 09:00 AM
My New York friends congratulated me for my “bravery” when I headed off to cover evangelical supporters of Mike Huckabee’s... More
Jon Stewart’s Never-Never Land
When the going gets tough, the tough get ironic
By Lester Feder Nov 1, 2010 at 01:43 PM
The first irony of the major outlets’ prohibiting their employees from attending this weekend’s Stewart/Colbert rally is that their effort... More
Glenn Beck Reimagines Whiteness
And the media can’t cope
By Lester Feder Aug 31, 2010 at 01:18 PM
It’s rare that an event can provoke columns that carry such contradictory teasers as “Don’t ridicule Glenn Beck’s tribute to... More
Michael Kinsley vs. Factual Accuracy
WaPo columnist slams the Times’s “schoolmarmish” corrections column
By Lester Feder Sep 4, 2009 at 02:14 PM
In an op-ed published in today's Washington Post criticizing The New York Times's published corrections, columnist Michael Kinsley officially went... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
