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Television as Tribunal
What today’s reporters can learn from Frost/Nixon
By Sacha Evans Dec 17, 2008 at 01:12 PM
Earlier this month, President Bush sat down with ABC News's Charlie Gibson for the first of a series "exit interviews"... More
Cattle Coverage
Covering party conventions is no job for vegetarians
By Sacha Evans Sep 3, 2008 at 05:41 PM
It's hard to sit through the convention coverage without seeing at least one reference to "red meat:" "All right, let's... More
Context Message
Media speculation over Obama’s 3 AM text message overlooks the CNN Effect
By Sacha Evans Aug 26, 2008 at 05:15 PM
"Why three in the morning?" was the question on many people's minds after they received the Obama campaign's early morning... More
Staying The Corsi
The media refute Jerome Corsi’s arguments while still reinforcing his best seller bona fides
By Sacha Evans Aug 22, 2008 at 02:13 PM
At a Wednesday town hall meeting in Lynchburg, Virginia, Barack Obama derided The New York Times number-one bestseller The Obama... More
Casus Belli By Proxy
Commentators reach for imprecise historical analogies in framing Georgian conflict
By Sacha Evans Aug 12, 2008 at 03:08 PM
Before fighting was halted today, media coverage of the Russian-Georgian conflict had been awash with memories of the West's tepid... More
By Its Cover
The Internet and the ever-growing book title
By Sacha Evans May 15, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Remember when a non-fiction book could get away with a short, ambiguous title? Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion and Ernie Pyle’s... 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.
