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Too Good to Be True?
Do local TV news viewers prefer Jim Lehrer to Kent Brockman?
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Oct 23, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Journalists, and for that matter academics, relish a good plot twist. So it’s no surprise that some commentators in the... More
Too Good to Be True?
New research about what viewers want from television news
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Aug 21, 2008 at 09:00 AM
The decade-long collaboration between the Project for Excellence in Journalism and several academics led by Wellesley College political scientist Marion... More
Getting Bit
When sound bites get snack-sized
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas May 2, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Anyone who buys the beltway complaint that television news reporting shrivels both politics and public discourse has two new reasons... More
One of the Guys
It’s still rare for a reporter to be both fierce and female
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Apr 24, 2008 at 02:00 PM
Veteran Washington post media critic Howard Kurtz is known for hurling slings and arrows at members of his own profession.... More
Leaps and Bounds
Paranoia: as American as your (possibly poisoned) apple pie
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Feb 7, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Perhaps not since colonial Salem have fears of conspiracy been so pervasive. And though old women are no longer persecuted... More
Who Hates the Press?
From Watergate to the present, confidence in the media has been spiraling down
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Dec 28, 2007 at 09:00 AM
A new study traces more than thirty years of changing public attitudes toward the news media, and unhappily finds... More
Edifice Rex
How newspapers lost their spots in the skyline
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Jul 10, 2009 at 12:45 PM
It was billed “The Fight of the Century” before a single punch was thrown: Jack Johnson versus Jim Jeffries, black... More
The News Deficit
Public television’s role in informing Americans
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas May 16, 2009 at 03:55 PM
A Yank, a Brit, a Dane, and a Finn walk into a bar. . . . You’ve heard this one? Well, not the way... More
Luces in the Sky
Covering big pharma in the age of marketing
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Mar 1, 2009 at 03:11 PM
When Time magazine went culinary trend-spotting in July 1951, it bypassed usual suspects like new ice-cream flavors and found a... More
Feet to the Fire
Does journalism keep government honest?
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Jan 26, 2009 at 09:00 AM
For a profession that lives by the cynical adage, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out,” journalism... More
Voting for Glass Houses
Why government transparency may be a lofty goal
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Jan 12, 2009 at 09:00 AM
In February 2007, newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the Internet as an “incredible vehicle for transparency” and declared... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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?”
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.
