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Failure to Report
Big news orgs are failing to cover the Iraqi tribal “awakening”
By Paul McLeary Nov 12, 2007 at 04:34 PM
With American casualties continuing to fall in Iraq, and with Iraqi civilian deaths trending downward due in part to the... More
Bush Jr. Gives $2K To Mitt?
Political news you can use
By Paul McLeary Nov 6, 2007 at 12:14 PM
In the pantheon of things that American news consumers probably shouldn't care about, the political donations of the Bush cousins,... More
Kurtz Goes to the Well
Plugs his book in his column, again
By Paul McLeary Nov 5, 2007 at 11:08 AM
In his Washington Post media column this morning, Howard Kurtz tackles the great go-to topic for media critics with nothing... More
Nightline proves PEJ study right
Airs fluff piece on the family of fourth-place candidate
By Paul McLeary Oct 31, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Almost as if daring us to write something critical, last night ABC News' Nightline aired what can only be called... More
Horse-Race Season
It’s early, but the press is already behind
By Paul McLeary Oct 29, 2007 at 01:01 PM
It's amazing, but perhaps not all that surprising. As critics continue to pick apart the media's coverage of the wars... More
The MSM blogs!
Is a new pecking order emerging?
By Paul McLeary Oct 26, 2007 at 01:46 PM
Well, here's something new--politicians are taking blogs seriously! The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz dropped this juicy little tidbit in his... More
Baseball, pandering, and the long campaign season
Who do you root for?
By Paul McLeary Oct 24, 2007 at 01:27 PM
You know it's a long campaign season when questions about a candidate's baseball allegiances are splashed across the front pages... More
British Persuasion
With Guardian America, the British paper tries to cross the pond
By Paul McLeary Oct 23, 2007 at 01:24 PM
I’m probably jumping the gun here, but I’m a little surprised about the launch this morning of the Guardian America... More
Shales Shanks It
Takes Matt Lauer down for what, not smacking Larry Craig harder? Please
By Paul McLeary Oct 17, 2007 at 04:03 PM
If Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales is in the business of holding people to unfair standards, then business is... More
Salih’s Story
Slain Iraqi reporter knew the risks he faced
By Paul McLeary Oct 15, 2007 at 12:35 PM
In an interview in The Washington Post's Baghdad compound back in January 2006, one of the newspaper's stringers insisted that... More
VNR Redux
Anyone surprised that local TV keeps airing fake news?
By Paul McLeary Oct 12, 2007 at 11:04 AM
Seems our old friend, the Video News Release, is back--or more likely, never left us in the first place. The... More
What was CBS thinking?
Disclosure statements aren’t a cure-all
By Paul McLeary Oct 11, 2007 at 11:08 AM
At the risk of over-analyzing this one, let's just say up front that CBS' Rita Braver, whose husband--lawyer Robert B.... More
The Frost Story
Bloggers portray a different “reality”
By Paul McLeary Oct 10, 2007 at 02:00 PM
The fight over a bill calling for a $35 billion increase in funding for the SCHIP program, (passed by both... More
Why Jon Lee Anderson doesn’t like embedding
The too-close-to-the-troops notion is flimsy
By Paul McLeary Oct 5, 2007 at 01:16 PM
Yesterday, at a lunch hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists, New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson shared stories of... More
Milbank on Blackwater
How WaPo columnist distinguished himself
By Paul McLeary Oct 3, 2007 at 11:54 AM
It's hard to find anything new under the sun when cracking open the morning papers to read the accounts of... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
