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Campaign Desk
CJR on Gaza
May 22, 2009 08:00 AMThis month, the Columbia Journalism Review is offering three perspectives on the coverage of the fighting in Gaza. J.J. Goldberg, editorial director of The Forward, compares the reporting on alleged brutalities against civilians in the U.S. press and... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Dowd’s Deed
May 19, 2009 02:27 PMYou’ve heard the buzz about Maureen Dowd’s Sunday column for The New York Times, the one in which she reproduced, apparently unintentionally, a sentence—about forty words—from a blog post by Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall. Most... Continue reading
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Editorial
All Together Now
May 16, 2009 08:00 AMOver the last year, a number of news outlets have done what has traditionally been anathema to journalists: collaborate with the competition. From Florida to Maine, Ohio to Texas, newspapers (mostly) are sharing content, merging bureaus, and consolidating printing operations.... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Yoo’s on First
May 12, 2009 01:17 PMToday brings a firestorm about the Philadelphia Inquirer's signing of John Yoo—the jurist responsible for authoring the Bush administration's just-released "torture memos," as well as for crafting the legal justification for that administration's massive expansion of executive power—to... Continue reading
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News Meeting
The Eternal Intern-al Debate
May 5, 2009 01:47 PMIntern season is here, reminding us of the perennial ethical hazards attached to this rite of journalistic passage. Unpaid internships have always been problematic, considering the advantage given to those with resources and connections, but they were also a reliable... Continue reading
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News Meeting
The Hundred-Day Stretch
April 28, 2009 12:13 PMIt’s been hard to miss the steady drumbeat counting down to Obama’s 100th day in office. Yesterday we wrote that while the benchmark itself “is completely arbitrary,” minus the historical significance, the media could still wring some substantial... Continue reading
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Prize Fighter
April 21, 2009 01:05 PMThe Pulitzer Prizes may be among the most prestigious of journalism awards, but they are by no means the only ones. There are prizes honoring visual journalism, copy editing, ethics in journalism, student journalism, and many, many more.... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Ad Nauseam
April 14, 2009 01:26 PMIn a post yesterday, Nieman Journalism Lab’s Martin Langeveld crunched the numbers underscoring the general assumption that “the audience for news has shifted from print to the Web in a big way.” In fact, Langeveld found, All... Continue reading
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Public Speaking
April 7, 2009 01:02 PMToday, the Newspaper Association of America closes out its annual conference with a keynote speech from Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In advance of Schmidt’s address, others have been speculating about what they would say if given the chance... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Trudy Lieberman Campaign Desk Archive
April 5, 2009 04:06 PMThis archive is no longer updated. Please click here for a complete and updated list of Trudy Lieberman's Campaign Desk articles. November 2010 11/18/10: Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Bean - What Social Security means to real... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Stephen Adler’s Ten Things
April 3, 2009 10:35 AM"I'm very scared of Dean Starkman," admitted BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Stephen Adler, when asked how his magazine fared in covering the financial crisis during a talk at the Columbia Journalism School last night. Adler projected mock trepidation about an... Continue reading
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Say Uncle (Sam)
March 31, 2009 12:59 PMIn the current issue of The Nation, John Nichols and Robert McChesney make an argument for government intervention in American journalism's economic model. "The old corporate media system choked on its own excess," they write. "We should not... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Live-Blogging Obama’s Online Town Hall
March 26, 2009 11:35 AMIn the comments section of this post, starting now. Continue reading
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Editorial
Reasons to Believe
March 26, 2009 08:00 AMThere is a lot of death talk around journalism lately. A case in point that stuck in our craw was Michael Hirschorn’s recent Atlantic piece about The New York Times: the Gray Lady might expire, he predicted, by May. We... Continue reading
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Behind the News
CJR Audio: The Future of Investigative Journalism
March 25, 2009 12:03 PMOn March 12 and 13, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hosted Enlarging the Space for Watchdog Journalism, a conference focused on the state and future of investigative journalism. Mark Horvitt, executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Paul... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Live-Blogging Blago’s Radio Show
March 25, 2009 09:39 AMIn the comments section of this post. Listen in with us, right now, on Chicago's WLS-AM. Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Live-Blogging Tonight’s Presidential Press Conference
March 24, 2009 07:30 PMCJR staffers will be live-blogging tonight's presidential press conference (airing at 8pm on all major networks, and streaming live on major news sites). Feel free to participate in the comments section. And if you feel yourself inspired/ired/otherwise moved, tonight... Continue reading
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Peer Presser
March 24, 2009 12:58 PMIf you tune in to MSNBC today, you might see a black-and-white ticker occasionally pop up in the corner of your screen, counting down to tonight's primetime PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE. (Get excited, America: it's now only seven hours, eleven minutes,... Continue reading
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Critical Eye
Page Views Archive
March 21, 2009 05:44 PMThis is a list of every Page Views piece, presented in reverse chronological order. August 2012 08/23/12: Review: Dennis Drabelle's The Great American Railroad War - A How Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce... Continue reading
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News Meeting
Times Op-Ed Columnist Fantasy Draft
March 17, 2009 02:56 PMThe hiring of Ross Douthat to the Times editorial page inspired us to contemplate how the Gray Lady might further invigorate its stable of opinion writers. The current lineup (Blow, Brooks, Cohen, Collins, Dowd, Friedman, Herbert, Kristof, Krugman,... Continue reading
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