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Jeff Danziger on Psychology Majors, Cruel Cartoonists, and the Hopelessness of Ever Understanding the World
By Zachary Roth Sep 10, 2004 at 05:30 PM
Jeff Danziger Jeff Danziger is a syndicated political cartoonist. He has worked for the Christian Science Monitor and the... More
Letting Your Guard Down
By Zachary Roth Sep 9, 2004 at 01:24 PM
It's all National Guard all the time today in the blog world, or at least the left-leaning portion of it.... More
Crystal-Balling the Advice for Kerry
By Zachary Roth Sep 8, 2004 at 12:27 PM
Mickey Kaus boldly challenges the CW -- offered recently by Bill Clinton, Evan Bayh, and the editors of The Note... More
The Antiwar Candidate?
By Zachary Roth Sep 7, 2004 at 04:24 PM
Covering a campaign speech by President Bush in Lee's Summit, Mo. this morning, Agence France-Presse quoted President Bush verbatim: "When... More
“Oh, Woe Is Us, They Hate Us”
By Zachary Roth Sep 2, 2004 at 05:12 PM
Wednesday night, Aaron Brown, CNN's version of an "introspective" late-night anchor, hosted a short segment, reported by Washington Post and... More
“Shut Up, Fox!”
By Zachary Roth Sep 1, 2004 at 04:20 PM
Outside the Fox building at 48th Street and 6th Avenue yesterday, hundreds of protesters gathered. Apparently in sync with Fox... More
Down At the CNN Diner
By Zachary Roth Aug 31, 2004 at 03:11 PM
Folksy ol' CNN has rented out the Tick Tock Diner, on the corner of 34th St. and 8th Ave, across... More
The Boys and Girls on the Bus
By Zachary Roth Aug 27, 2004 at 02:03 PM
Editor's note: Campaign Desk's Zachary Roth joined the campaign reporters accompanying Vice President Cheney on a bus tour of northeast... More
Not All Letters are Created Equal
By Zachary Roth Aug 23, 2004 at 04:26 PM
Here's a perfect example of where the press corps' obsession with "even-handedness" has led us: Reporters stretching to argue that... More
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
By Zachary Roth Aug 19, 2004 at 11:10 AM
Covering a speech by John Kerry at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, Ron Fournier of the Associated Press writes:... More
Errors of Omission Can Distort As Well
By Zachary Roth Aug 18, 2004 at 04:01 PM
Sometimes reporters get what they say right, but still short-change readers for lack of a few simple words of elaboration.... More
Not Enough Sunshine in the Sunshine State
By Zachary Roth Aug 17, 2004 at 05:21 PM
Last month, Campaign Desk exposed an oft-quoted Florida political science professor frequently presented as a non-partisan expert. Turned out he's... More
Dan Froomkin on Blogs, Bush, and Online Whimsy
By Zachary Roth Aug 6, 2004 at 04:38 PM
Dan Froomkin Dan Froomkin writes the White House Briefing column for the web site of The Washington Post. He... More
Blogs in the USA
By Zachary Roth Aug 5, 2004 at 12:19 PM
Mickey Kaus has found "valuable voter feedback for the Kerry campaign" buried in the comments section of the Donkey Rising... More
Fineman vs. Fineman
By Zachary Roth Aug 4, 2004 at 12:27 PM
Roger Ailes (no relation, apparently, to the Fox News chief) brings us a "measure of Howard Fineman's integrity." The Newsweek... 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.
