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We Know What You Did Last Summer
By Zachary Roth Jan 16, 2004 at 04:04 PM
Comes now an incisive dose of the conventional wisdom on the Democratic primaries . . . circa August 2003. Unfortunately,... More
Dean: This Week’s Pi�ata
By Zachary Roth Jan 16, 2004 at 01:47 PM
Have you been getting the feeling that, as the Iowa caucuses bear down upon us, the campaign press has been... More
ABC: An Example of Abuse
By Zachary Roth Jan 15, 2004 at 06:24 PM
By Zachary Roth What was ABC News smoking? That's what a lot of people (including Mickey Kaus) are asking today... More
Dr. Dean, Meet the Press
By Zachary Roth Jan 14, 2004 at 06:11 PM
By Zachary Roth Does the political press have a vested interest in slowing down the Howard Dean juggernaut? After all,... More
Look Inside the Bush Mindset
By Zachary Roth Jan 14, 2004 at 06:05 PM
By Zachary Roth In an extraordinary piece in the Jan. 19 New Yorker, Ken Auletta explores the Bush administration's deeply-held... More
Is Romneycare a Success or a Failure?
Don’t ask Politico
By Zachary Roth Oct 6, 2010 at 02:18 PM
If you're looking for a news story that exemplifies what so many people find both engaging and infuriating about Politico,... More
Seeing FOX for What It Is
News Corp donations mandate reevaluating the network’s role
By Zachary Roth Oct 1, 2010 at 01:40 PM
Will this week mark the beginning of a new phase in the way that Fox News is perceived by the... More
Media Critic In Chief
Obama on FOX and objectivity
By Zachary Roth Sep 28, 2010 at 01:56 PM
President Obama used his interview with Rolling Stone to open a new offensive in the White House's verbal war with... More
Kurtz Stays Silent on Peretz
Washington Post media critic avoids controversy, again
By Zachary Roth Sep 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Earlier this summer, when Helen Thomas said Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and return to Germany, among... More
The Senator in Full
The press must fight the impulse to whitewash Ted Stevens’s record
By Zachary Roth Aug 10, 2010 at 03:30 PM
The Associated Press confirmed this afternoon that former Alaska senator Ted Stevens has died in a plane crash in his... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
