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Black Hawk Up
David Ignatius’s Helicopter Journalism
By Michael Massing Oct 27, 2009 at 09:21 AM
What a delight it must be to be a columnist for a major American newspaper. When traveling to distant, war-torn... More
Howard Kurtz, Missing in Action
Fox vs. the White House: Where’s Howie?
By Michael Massing Oct 22, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Howard Kurtz scored a coup on his CNN show “Reliable Sources” two Sundays ago when White House communications director Anita... More
Iraq’s Missing Iraqis
A good book’s great flaw
By Michael Massing Oct 14, 2009 at 01:05 PM
David Finkel’s book The Good Soldiers, about the experiences of a US Army battalion during the surge in Iraq, is... More
The Most Misreported Country
And the winner is…
By Michael Massing Oct 7, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Which country is most routinely miscovered in the U.S. press? There are clearly many candidates, but for me one stands... More
Eyes Wide Shut on Iran
Familiar sources sing a tired song
By Michael Massing Sep 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Listening to the CBS Evening News on Friday, I was roused from the slumber that program so often induces by... More
Katie and Diane: The Wrong Questions
Why can’t the print press treat TV news as news?
By Michael Massing Sep 23, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Michael Massing’s voice has long been part of the Columbia Journalism Review in print. He is a columnist, a former... More
Un-American
Have you listened to the right-wing media lately?
By Michael Massing Jan 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM
In the weeks following the election, the debate over the issue of media bias, and of whether the press was... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
