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Newsweak
By Zachary Roth Oct 8, 2004 at 12:08 PM
Consider this passage from Howard Fineman's latest online dispatch for Newsweek on the current state of the campaign: This campaign... More
Moving Among the Hunters and the Hunted
By Zachary Roth Oct 7, 2004 at 12:14 PM
By Zachary Roth Cleveland, Ohio -- Hosting the vice presidential debate last Tuesday seemed to be the biggest thing that's... More
Reporters Flunk a (Global) Test
By Zachary Roth Oct 4, 2004 at 05:49 PM
In last week's presidential debate, John Kerry told Jim Lehrer that he would never involve the country in a pre-emptive... More
Facing Facts - At Last!
By Zachary Roth Oct 1, 2004 at 03:43 PM
The most encouraging part of the press coverage of last night's presidential debate has been the sudden flurry of fact-checking... More
Admitting the Problem Is Half the Battle
By Zachary Roth Sep 30, 2004 at 04:45 PM
As we gear up for tonight's showdown in the Sunshine State, it's not hard to identify the prevailing conventional wisdom... More
CNN Circles the Wagons on Polling
By Zachary Roth Sep 28, 2004 at 06:10 PM
Disputes over polling techniques, once the exclusive province of statistic geeks and partisan bloggers, heated up and spilled over to... More
CBS: From Trigger Happy to Gun-Shy
By Zachary Roth Sep 27, 2004 at 02:12 PM
CBS News will postpone a prepared segment questioning one of the Bush administration's rationales for invading Iraq, the New York... More
Fumble!
By Zachary Roth Sep 24, 2004 at 02:23 PM
CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," aired at 7pm each night, has lately added a short segment called "Campaign Playbook." Cramming as... More
Clarify This
By Zachary Roth Sep 24, 2004 at 12:33 PM
Thanks to a reader for this one. The Associated Press reports today: "President Bush suggested on Thursday that he wanted... More
One Reporter Left Behind
By Zachary Roth Sep 23, 2004 at 04:51 PM
Covering a speech by President Bush in Latrobe, Penn., Raymond Hernandez of The New York Times this morning writes, "Mr.... More
Setting a Low Bar
By Zachary Roth Sep 22, 2004 at 03:36 PM
Yesterday Mickey Kaus, writing on Slate, referred to "this week's coming CW [conventional wisdom] sigh of relief that the campaign... More
Fixing Democracy, Flies on the Wall and Flirting in French
By Zachary Roth Sep 21, 2004 at 01:51 PM
Newsweek's political reporters are good at coming up with details that seem to offer readers a fly-on-the-wall glimpse inside the... More
Dick Cheney, Dennis Hastert, Bill Schneider - Three Peas in a Pod?
By Zachary Roth Sep 20, 2004 at 01:13 PM
At a campaign rally on Saturday with Vice President Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert declared that al Qaeda "would like... More
Fueling the Debate
By Zachary Roth Sep 17, 2004 at 04:42 PM
James Ridgeway of The Village Voice makes a glaring error in his column urging John Kerry to just be himself.... More
Unused Tools
By Zachary Roth Sep 15, 2004 at 04:16 PM
David Sanger of The New York Times obviously hasn't bookmarked Factcheck.org. If he had, with the flick of a finger... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
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.
