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Must-reads of 2012: politics
What you should have read (in case you didn’t)
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Dec 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. From New York magazine,... More
Dart to HuffPo for ‘awesome scoop’
For enabling Harry Reid’s game of telephone sourcing on Romney’s taxes
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Aug 1, 2012 at 05:15 PM
Yesterday, The New York Times published an op-ed by Columbia tax law professor Michael J. Graetz, exploring, as the... More
Laurels to the Las Vegas Sun and News & Record
For a strong ad factcheck, and for grappling with campaigns’ message control
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 27, 2012 at 03:10 PM
Jay Jones has already heaped praise this week upon the Las Vegas Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, but we’ll go ahead... More
A dart to the campaign press corps
…for acquiescing to that whole “quote approval” thing
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 19, 2012 at 06:18 AM
It’s a diffuse target, but the campaign press corps writ large earns a dart this week for acquiescing to... More
Laurels for The New York Times and The Plain Dealer
Amid some Dart-worthy coverage, a few stories stand out
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 11, 2012 at 03:20 PM
Brendan Nyhan’s post earlier this week about the lackluster coverage of President Obama’s “outsourcing” attack on Mitt Romney threw... More
A laurel to Politifact Florida
Site pushes back against misinformation about Obamacare and small business
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Our run of Swing States Project praise continues with a laurel to Politifact Florida, where reporters Tia Mitchell, Katie... More
A laurel to Denver’s Westword
Alt-weekly scours TV stations’ public files for details on political spending
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jun 29, 2012 at 03:59 PM
For months now, CJR has been urging the FCC to improve public access to the “public inspection files” maintained... More
A laurel to WaPo’s debunking of ‘EPA drones’
David Fahrenthold chronicles the “life cycle of a falsehood”
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jun 20, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Starting today, we’ll be bringing a venerable CJR tradition, Darts & Laurels, to The Swing States Project. Each Wednesday,... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
