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1. The Audit

   How often does the press beat the SEC to accounting fraud stories?

   May 21, 2007 07:36 AM

   If the business press is the public’s watchdog on corporate fraud, there seems to be cause for concern. A new Harvard study on “watchdog” business reporting—the first of its kind—details how rarely the financial press uncovers wrongdoing on its own.... Continue reading

2. Behind the News

   Newspapers Are Killing Cartoonists—Another Brilliant Business Move

   May 11, 2007 10:47 AM

   It's been fifty years since The Saturday Review declared American editorial cartooning a moribund art. In the three-page autopsy, the magazine's staff coroner of all things cultural, Jerome Beatty, argued that the cartoonist's lifeblood had been quieted by taboo-conscious editors... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   Charting the Connection Between Booze and News

   March 30, 2007 01:43 PM

   If you believe the apothegm "It takes one to know one," then Doug Underwood has revealed himself to be a lusty drunk driven to professional ruin and early death by cigarettes, drugs, and psychic pain. This, after all, is the... Continue reading

4. Behind the News

   (not) WANTED: Careerist Journalists for a New Epoch

   March 16, 2007 02:16 PM

   Media watchers heard from their Moses again on Monday when the Project for Excellence in Journalism came down the mountain with its fourth annual "State of the American News Media" report. In a deft synthesis of original and secondary research,... Continue reading

5. Politics

   When Does the Watchdog Bark? The Answer May Surprise You

   February 14, 2007 11:10 AM

   By now the idea that journalists failed to sufficiently question the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq, and therefore bear some blame for the expanding mess there, is virtual gospel. "An explanation is due for how the U.S. press... Continue reading

6. Politics

   Forget America, is Journalism Ready for a Black President?

   January 22, 2007 11:59 AM

   "Is America Ready for a Black President?" It's a question that many media outlets have posed recently ahead of a possible presidential run by Senator Barack Obama. But instead of asking if the country is prepared, the press would do... Continue reading

7. Bio

   Tony Dokoupil

   Tony Dokoupil co-authors the Research Report column for CJR. He’s a Ph.D. candidate in communications at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.