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The Witt and Wisdom of the Campaign Press
By Zachary Roth Jul 8, 2004 at 04:33 PM
We were browsing through the Orlando Sentinel when we came across a piece by reporter Mark Silva about John Edwards'... More
Dan Kennedy on Mickey Kaus, the Boston Press, and the Red Sox
By Zachary Roth Jul 2, 2004 at 04:06 PM
Dan Kennedy and his daughter Becky Dan Kennedy is a senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix,... More
Target: Campaign Desk
By Zachary Roth Jul 1, 2004 at 12:18 PM
Mickey Kaus' disdain for John Kerry has now become so delusional that he has begun to assume that Kerry's own... More
The Yankees, the Olsens, and the Veepstakes
By Zachary Roth Jun 30, 2004 at 12:23 PM
Mickey Kaus isn't happy with The New York Times's write-up yesterday of its own NYT/CBS poll. The Times chose the... More
The Mis-Education of Nedra Pickler
By Zachary Roth Jun 29, 2004 at 04:25 PM
When the going gets tough, reporters too often check out. Covering a speech by John Kerry today on higher education,... More
Michael Moore, Evangelical Christians, and “Avant-Garde Nightclubs”
By Zachary Roth Jun 28, 2004 at 02:13 PM
For those of you who were too distracted by the surprise early-handover-of-sovereignty-in-Iraq decision to notice, Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" came... More
Dog Bites Man in Nevada
By Zachary Roth Jun 23, 2004 at 02:42 PM
Check out the lede to this story in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal: "A chief strategist for John Kerry's campaign said... More
Clinton Exhales
By Zachary Roth Jun 22, 2004 at 02:26 PM
Most of the good parts of "My Life," Bill Clinton's 957-page memoir, have already come out in the last week... More
Lou Dobbs Offers Half a Loaf
By Zachary Roth Jun 21, 2004 at 11:47 AM
Last week we revealed that CNN's Lou Dobbs, who uses his nightly news show to finger corporations which outsource jobs,... More
Parroting the President
By Zachary Roth Jun 18, 2004 at 12:28 PM
Conservatives, including the vice president himself, have been quick to attack press coverage of the 9/11 Commission's finding that there... More
The Two Faces of Lou Dobbs
By Zachary Roth Jun 17, 2004 at 11:57 AM
In April, John Kerry's campaign released a TV ad attacking President Bush for supporting the export of U.S. jobs overseas.... More
You Could Find It in the New York Times
By Zachary Roth Jun 15, 2004 at 11:15 AM
In today's New York Times, Richard Stevenson, covering President Bush's trip to Missouri to tout his Medicare drug benefit, writes... More
What To Do This Week
By Zachary Roth Jun 8, 2004 at 04:13 PM
The news media is in full dead-president-in-state mode until Friday, and President Bush and John Kerry have stopped campaigning for... More
Taking Life Easy at Human Events
By Zachary Roth Jun 7, 2004 at 04:52 PM
Sometimes, this whole "reporting" thing is just too easy. Late last month, the Washington Post turned its attention to some... More
Didn’t Make Sense the First Time, Doesn’t Make Sense This Time
By Zachary Roth Jun 1, 2004 at 11:03 AM
In today's Washington Post, Paul Farhi gives new life to Howard Fineman's flawed logic about "bellwether" counties. Farhi travels to... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
