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Bring Us the Heads of “Karen Ryan” and “Alberto Garcia,” Cont’d
By Zachary Roth Mar 16, 2004 at 01:16 PM
Yesterday, we highlighted a New York Times story revealing that the Bush administration sent out taped "news segments" praising the... More
Everyone’s a Media Critic
By Zachary Roth Mar 16, 2004 at 10:58 AM
We've seen a few high-profile slip-ups by the mainstream news media recently, and to no one's surprise, the blogs are... More
Bring Us The Heads of “Karen Ryan” and “Alberto Garcia”
By Zachary Roth Mar 15, 2004 at 04:35 PM
Television stations in Oklahoma, Louisiana and other states have aired "news" segments about the recently enacted Medicare law, featuring "reporters"... More
Taxing Our Patience
By Zachary Roth Mar 15, 2004 at 02:06 PM
Kudos to Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times for highlighting a major slip-up by the press corps last week.... More
Going on Offense on Defense
By Zachary Roth Mar 15, 2004 at 10:38 AM
The Democratic Party hasn't traditionally been known for its message discipline, but if the major left-leaning blogs are any guide... More
Some Like It Hot
By Zachary Roth Mar 12, 2004 at 11:49 AM
Just as the conventional wisdom was forming that, long before November, voters will be sick of 24/7 coverage of a... More
Weasel Words
By Zachary Roth Mar 11, 2004 at 11:29 AM
Check out this story that ran Tuesday on Fox News Channel and appears on FoxNews.com under the heading, "Flag on... More
Fuzzing Up the Facts on Fundraising
By Zachary Roth Mar 10, 2004 at 05:06 PM
We did a double-take when we saw this headline on NYTimes.com: "Major Kerry Donors Actually Give More to Bush." In... More
Watching the Watchmen
By Zachary Roth Mar 10, 2004 at 01:12 PM
Jack Shafer has an interesting piece on Slate about the new "rules of engagement" announced recently at both the Washington... More
A Comedy of Errors
By Zachary Roth Mar 9, 2004 at 06:01 PM
Sometimes we find a problem with news stories we read. Occasionally we find two in the same piece. But Carson... More
Medicareless
By Zachary Roth Mar 9, 2004 at 10:26 AM
In a story about Sen. John Kerry's promise to Florida seniors yesterday to "protect Social Security and Medicare," Jim Vandehei... More
Context Matters
By Zachary Roth Mar 8, 2004 at 01:13 PM
Hats off to Geraldine Sealey, writing on Salon, who catches the New York Post in a flagrant distortion of written... More
You Could Look It Up
By Zachary Roth Mar 5, 2004 at 03:54 PM
Does The Washington Post give its reporters a day-off from fact-checking on Fridays? That was what we were asking after... More
Of Elvis, Condoms, Walnuts and Arnold
By Zachary Roth Mar 4, 2004 at 02:32 PM
We ran across this in an online column by Jeff Dvorkin, the ombudsman for NPR. A listener wrote Dvorkin concerning... More
Quote Machine
By Zachary Roth Mar 3, 2004 at 06:36 PM
Close readers of The New York Times might have been puzzled today to run across one Diane Brewer, an interior... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
