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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
‘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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
