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Sunday Watch 7-20-08
In which Meet the Press meets Al Gore and, through him, the real world
By Todd Gitlin Jul 21, 2008 at 08:27 AM
Imagine! Almost an entire installment of Meet the Press devoted to an interview with a private citizen who is not... More
Sunday Watch 7-13-08
McCain still walking on the Tigris and Euphrates
By Todd Gitlin Jul 14, 2008 at 09:25 AM
Last week, I tasked George Stephanopoulos to ask McCain a serious question about his acumen in the matter of Iraq,... More
Sunday Watch 7-6-08
What’s it all about?
By Todd Gitlin Jul 7, 2008 at 07:28 AM
Todd Gitlin watches Sunday morning talk shows so that you don't have to, and, every Monday morning, offers his take... More
Russert Watch 6-15-08
The rest is silence
By Todd Gitlin Jun 16, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Tim Russert, dead at fifty-eight, was more than just a showman. He had gifts galore for friendship and gusto, and... More
Russert Watch: 6-8-08
In which the round table chews on the news and misses the beef
By Todd Gitlin Jun 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Tim Russert’s round table of square minds marked the end of Hillary Clinton’s campaign with a summary parsefest, but the... More
Russert Watch 6-1-08
In which Tim baits hooks, McClellan wriggles, and big fish swim away
By Todd Gitlin Jun 2, 2008 at 06:00 PM
It shouldn’t be news that the Bush White House is a nest of intellectual bankruptcy—and if Meet the Press and... More
Russert Watch 5-25-08
In which Tim’s round table considers gender and race
By Todd Gitlin May 27, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Tim Russert led his round table with Hillary Clinton’s much-excoriated and certainly maladroit mention of the RFK assassination, a gaffe... More
Russert Watch: Sunday 5-18-08
In which Tim stays on the surface about “appeasement”
By Todd Gitlin May 19, 2008 at 08:54 AM
Tim Russert, as is his wont, went to politics before policy with Democratic Senator Jim Webb of Virginia. He began... More
Russert Watch 5-11-08
In which Hillary surrogates get got
By Todd Gitlin May 12, 2008 at 02:30 PM
What’s a Sunday morning show to do when it specializes in political prophecy and the expectation is a foregone conclusion?... More
Russert Watch: Sunday, 5-4-08
In which we propose a new name for Meet the Press
By Todd Gitlin May 5, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Some viewers are probably disappointed that Tim Russert devoted only the first fifteen minutes or so of Meet the Press... More
Russert Watch: Sunday, 4-27-08
In which Tim and team play inside baseball
By Todd Gitlin Apr 28, 2008 at 01:30 PM
This week, Tim Russert, the national handicapper-in-chief, brought Howard Dean onto Meet the Press and tried to coax him to... More
A Rumble Over Russert
Who gets to critique his journalism?
By Todd Gitlin Apr 23, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Dan Kennedy objects to my writing a "Russert Watch" column for CJR online on the ground that I support Barack... More
Russert Watch: Sunday, 4-20-08
In which Tim goes the Charlie Gibson route on Obama
By Todd Gitlin Apr 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Editor's note: Todd Gitlin's "Russert Watch" will run each Monday on CJR.org. Having agreed just the other day to write... More
Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask John McCain
On the surge and beyond
By Todd Gitlin Jan 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM
The following is the fifth post in my Questions Reporters Should Ask series. My goal for the series is to... More
Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Clinton
And not a single one about race!
By Todd Gitlin Jan 21, 2008 at 12:56 PM
The following is the fourth post in my Questions Reporters Should Ask series. My goal for the series is to... 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.
