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Ryan Lizza Ponders the 15-Minute News Cycle, the Campaign Trail, Blogs and the Washington Post’s New Cicadas Beat
By Zachary Roth May 28, 2004 at 11:26 AM
Ryan Lizza is the White House correspondent -- and has been covering the 2004 presidential campaign -- for The New... More
Good Things Come in Twos
By Zachary Roth May 27, 2004 at 12:45 PM
Maybe the conventional wisdom that President Bush's speech about Iraq Monday night put the pressure on Sen. John Kerry to... More
Religious Wrong?
By Zachary Roth May 26, 2004 at 12:52 PM
Ryan Lizza, writing on his blog for the New Republic, returns from a conference on religion and politics with some... More
Ad-ing Up the Facts
By Zachary Roth May 25, 2004 at 02:09 PM
The New York Times gets points for a story today by Jim Rutenberg, headlined "Campaign Ads are Under Fire for... More
Bicycles, Blogs, and Mr. Burns
By Zachary Roth May 24, 2004 at 01:10 PM
Is it just us, or have the candidates taken an unusual number of spills while exercising so far this campaign... More
Battleground Baloney
By Zachary Roth May 20, 2004 at 10:25 AM
We knew this would happen sooner or later. And now, thanks to Howard Fineman, it's happened sooner. It's battleground state-ism... More
Tax Attacks Lack Facts
By Zachary Roth May 18, 2004 at 02:57 PM
We can say one thing for Mike Glover's Associated Press dispatch today about a speech by John Kerry in Portland,... More
Curbing the Kerry Enthusiasm
By Zachary Roth May 18, 2004 at 12:30 PM
In what the Note -- itself a must-read -- calls a must-read, Michael Duffy, Matthew Cooper, and John Dickerson of... More
Anonymous Assault
By Zachary Roth May 17, 2004 at 04:55 PM
Campaign Desk has noted the press corps' affinity for anonymous sources before. Too often reporters err by allowing political operatives... More
In the Dark on Wesley Clark
By Zachary Roth May 14, 2004 at 01:18 PM
In a piece today that looks at several of John Kerry's choices for a running-mate, Nedra Pickler of the Associated... More
Reporting That’s “Not a Success”
By Zachary Roth May 13, 2004 at 03:10 PM
A little precision from the press corps can sometimes go a long way. Yesterday John Kerry gave an interview with... More
Just Say No
By Zachary Roth May 12, 2004 at 05:50 PM
Was this a story? NBC's "Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" last night ran a short segment on the impact of... More
When an Editor Chases “Balance” Over a Cliff
By Zachary Roth May 11, 2004 at 04:05 PM
Editorial pages editors have long wrestled with the question of how to treat letters to the editor. Should a newspaper... More
David Brock on Rush Limbaugh, Campaign Desk, and “Media Matters for America”
By Zachary Roth May 7, 2004 at 03:03 PM
David Brock is the author of four political books, including the forthcoming The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How... More
Letting the Sun Shine in to the Sunshine State
By Zachary Roth May 5, 2004 at 03:06 PM
As we've noted before, coverage of Election 2004 has so far been lacking in detailed, on-the-ground assessments of the campaigns'... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
