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Why do conservatives hate the troops?
By Paul McLeary Jul 27, 2007 at 01:12 PM
This is great. The conservative blogosphere and it's kissin' cousin, the milblog community--who always criticize the left for not supporting... More
Howard Kurtz’s shorthand
And the New Republic controversy
By Paul McLeary Jul 27, 2007 at 12:06 PM
Howard Kurtz weighs in again today on the story that a soldier in Iraq who wrote a series of articles... More
Tastes Great, Less Filling
Cut the boilerplate quotes, save a news story
By Paul McLeary Jul 25, 2007 at 04:17 PM
One small thing that newspapers could do to help break their addiction to the pointless he said-she said story frame... More
TNR And ‘Scott Thomas’
Someone needs to step up with some proof
By Paul McLeary Jul 24, 2007 at 03:03 PM
By now you're probably familiar with the flap over whether or not a soldier reportedly serving in Iraq, who has... More
Clinton’s Letter to the Pentagon…
Misreported
By Paul McLeary Jul 20, 2007 at 01:18 PM
It being summer and all, we realize that a lot of people are basically phoning it in at work, but... More
Conrad Black’s Apologist at the Sun
Lipsky’s overwritten ode to a friend and funder
By Paul McLeary Jul 18, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Yesterday, the New York Sun's president, editor-in-chief, and co-founder Seth Lipsky waxed nostalgic about his dinner buddy, ideological fellow-traveler, and... More
The shadowy “critics” who set the record straight on the North Korea deal
Victory Lap
By Paul McLeary Jul 16, 2007 at 03:58 PM
In Sunday's New York Times, David E. Sanger took to the front page to give the skinny on the North... More
Covering Iraqi politics
We don’t see enough of it
By Paul McLeary Jul 13, 2007 at 01:01 PM
Throughout the war in Iraq, there has been a noticeable lack of coverage of the political angle of the fight... More
Bill Gentile on covering Afghanistan
A veteran foreign correspondent talks about his documentary on western journalists on assignment in Afghanistan
By Paul McLeary Jul 12, 2007 at 03:48 PM
Bill Gentile, producer and director of the documentary "Dateline Afghanistan: Reporting the Forgotten War", which follows several Western journalists on... More
Front page blues
The Post fronts some disheartening stuff this morning
By Paul McLeary Jul 12, 2007 at 11:38 AM
As if any of us needed a reminder of how screwed up, confused, and contradictory the reports of the situation... More
Brit Hume: commie mole?
The real stenographers
By Paul McLeary Jun 22, 2007 at 12:00 PM
According to a batch of thirty year-old CIA documents released yesterday, the agency was--shock!--involved in "illegal and scandalous activities...wiretappings of... More
Where are the stories?
Some big names in Iraqi battle
By Paul McLeary Jun 21, 2007 at 12:31 PM
On Tuesday, about 10,000 U.S. soldiers launched "Operation Arrowhead Ripper," an aggressive offensive against Al Qaeda in Baqubah, a city... More
What is Richard Cohen thinking?
Not much…
By Paul McLeary Jun 19, 2007 at 01:42 PM
It's amazing what can find it's way into the pages of a newspaper's op-ed section. This morning, the Washington Post's... More
The New Yorker’s well-kept secrets
They have blogs!
By Paul McLeary Jun 19, 2007 at 12:21 PM
Unless I missed the memo, I had no idea that The New Yorker was running a couple blogs on its... More
The press loses another war
Good grief
By Paul McLeary Jun 19, 2007 at 10:58 AM
There's not a lot of news in the fact that the Pentagon has hired Geoff Morrell, former White House correspondent... 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?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
