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Sacred cows
The Penn State story offers a glimpse of the problems with league- and team-owned broadcast operations
By Robert Weintraub Jul 25, 2012 at 02:35 PM
Full-Court Press is a periodic column about the coverage of sports. On July 12, a report prepared by former FBI... More
Into the Fold
How the online sports community has become part of the mainstream
By Robert Weintraub Jul 16, 2009 at 04:39 PM
Regular watchers of ESPN —that is, all sports fans—may have noticed the network has begun allotting more airtime to the... More
U.S. 67, Russia 52, Context 0
U.S.-Russia hoops coverage fails to mention Georgia war
By Robert Weintraub Aug 21, 2008 at 04:28 PM
Here is the extent that the powers-that-be in Beijing have been successful at de-politicizing these Olympics: This morning’s U.S.-Russia women’s... More
Remote Control
Many of NBC’s announcers are calling the Olympics from New York—and that’s OK
By Robert Weintraub Aug 15, 2008 at 04:32 PM
NBC comes in for bashing from critics, both professional and otherwise, every four years,over its choices of what Olympics action... More
Tiki, Torched
MSNBC’s TIki Barber fumbles his Olympic commentary
By Robert Weintraub Aug 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Although the NFL season is still a month off, desperate sports fans can get their Tiki Barber fix during the... More
Booby Prize
NBC’s Olympics site is no medal contender
By Robert Weintraub Aug 12, 2008 at 04:46 PM
Contrary to what it may seem, many Olympics fans are interested in more than Michael Phelps’s attempt to chase the... More
Endangered Species
The big-city sports columnist: devoured by TV, negated by the Net
By Robert Weintraub Jul 3, 2008 at 09:00 AM
“All I ever wanted to be was a newspaper writer.” Those were the self-eulogizing words of Tony Kornheiser upon accepting... More
Play (Hard!) Ball
Why the sports beat must evolve
By Robert Weintraub Sep 25, 2007 at 09:00 AM
Last summer, celebrity sports columnist Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote the latest in a series of articles denigrating... 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.
