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A Bet That Doesn�t Need to Be Hedged
By Zachary Roth Dec 8, 2004 at 01:19 PM
In a story today about a lawsuit filed by automakers in hopes of getting a California fuel economy law struck... More
Nativity Proclivity
By Zachary Roth Dec 7, 2004 at 04:15 PM
Both Time and Newsweek play to the moral values crowd with cover pieces that look at the development of the... More
The Birth of the Madison County Shill
By Zachary Roth Dec 6, 2004 at 03:58 PM
Add this one to the ever-growing list of deceptive tactics that corporations, interest groups, and government agencies are using to... More
The Problem with John Tierney
By Zachary Roth Dec 1, 2004 at 02:30 PM
By Zachary Roth The favored candidate to replace William Safire as the voice of conservatism on the New York Times... More
DeLay Tactic
By Zachary Roth Nov 23, 2004 at 02:44 PM
Check out this paragraph from a report by Janet Hook in today's Los Angeles Times about the Republicans' congressional agenda:... More
Coddling vs. Character at the New York Times
By Zachary Roth Nov 22, 2004 at 03:18 PM
The lead story in yesterday's "Week in Review" section of the New York Times, by John Tierney, uses the movie... More
Tim Jones on Gay Marriage, Evangelicals, and 1968
By Zachary Roth Nov 19, 2004 at 03:02 PM
Tim Jones Tim Jones is a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He spent the presidential campaign covering the state... More
Dumb and Dumber
By Zachary Roth Nov 18, 2004 at 03:27 PM
The Daily Howler provides a well-deserved smackdown to Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post, who, in a column yesterday, argued... More
Which of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Unorthodox Views and David Broder
By Zachary Roth Nov 17, 2004 at 12:16 PM
Minor blog-spat on the left: It began when Matthew Yglesias, writing on Tapped, declared that his "biggest fear about the... More
Broder De-coder
By Zachary Roth Nov 16, 2004 at 10:39 AM
We don't often comment on political commentary. After all, a columnist's job is not to report, it's to argue a... More
Recriminations, Corrections, and Standing up to Scott Peterson
By Zachary Roth Nov 15, 2004 at 03:48 PM
It's the last gasp (let's hope) of Democratic finger-pointing and recriminations, and Josh Marshall is going after the "aristocracy of... More
Grapefruits and Grapes
By Zachary Roth Nov 11, 2004 at 06:13 PM
Part two of a series evaluating the media's performance during the 2004 campaign. By Zachary Roth As the election year... More
Campaign ‘04, R.I.P.
By Zachary Roth Nov 9, 2004 at 01:11 PM
Everybody loves a winner, and that goes double for middle-of-the-road newsweeklies. Says Time, sounding like a Bush campaign ad: "When... More
Hindsight is 20/20
By Zachary Roth Nov 5, 2004 at 03:42 PM
Last Sunday, Campaign Desk gave readers two parodies of day-after election stories (the basic Bush Won/Kerry Won pieces, filled with... More
Off the Money
By Zachary Roth Nov 1, 2004 at 03:55 PM
Thanks to a reader for this one: Our latest entry in the always-popular unsupported lead contest comes from Dan Burns... 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?
Fearless British mother who talked down Woolwich terrorists
“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
7 questions for President Obama
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
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.
