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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
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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
