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Row, Row, Row Your Boat - Backwards
By Zachary Roth Aug 3, 2004 at 02:49 PM
Reporting today on a batch of new post-convention poll results that seem to show a minor bump in support for... More
Poll Position
By Zachary Roth Aug 2, 2004 at 12:14 PM
The battle is on to spin (or un-spin, depending on how you look at it) the poll numbers coming out... More
Everyone’s a Critic
By Zachary Roth Jul 30, 2004 at 03:09 PM
Reporting on the kickoff of John Kerry's coast-to-coast campaign swing which begins today, Darlene Superville of the Associated Press writes:... More
A Day in the Life of CNN’s Political Coverage
By Zachary Roth Jul 29, 2004 at 06:27 PM
Campaign Desk decided to watch an evening of CNN's convention coverage, and identify where it went astray. It wasn't hard.... More
Whiffing on Warner’s Warning
By Zachary Roth Jul 28, 2004 at 04:58 PM
Sometimes reporters need to be a little more skeptical about just why a certain story is coming along at a... More
Nautical Nonsense
By Zachary Roth Jul 27, 2004 at 12:49 PM
It's no surprise, as Democrats gather in Boston, that John Kerry is the man of the hour in this week's... More
The First Casualty of War Is Truth
By Zachary Roth Jul 26, 2004 at 03:30 PM
As we've noted before, Iraq is shaping up to be the defining issue in this presidential election. That's why it's... More
Treeing the Wrong Fox
By Zachary Roth Jul 22, 2004 at 12:05 PM
How does a non-denial become a denial? Easy -- the press starts reading between the lines and presenting inference as... More
“Hunger”-ing for the Facts
By Zachary Roth Jul 21, 2004 at 01:20 PM
An alert reader pointed out to us that, in reviewing an upcoming CIA report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction,... More
Newsweek: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
By Zachary Roth Jul 20, 2004 at 04:54 PM
We were pleased to see Newsweek devote an online article to taking a critical look at the news media's campaign... More
There Are Republicans, and Then There Are “Republicans”
By Zachary Roth Jul 19, 2004 at 02:05 PM
Here's another entry in the "promising more than you can deliver" file. Covering the fallout from Ron Reagan's decision to... More
Defective Smoke Alarm
By Zachary Roth Jul 16, 2004 at 02:27 PM
In today's New York Times, Carl Hulse considers the attempt by Republican congressional candidates to use the issue of gay... More
One Man’s Flip Is Another Man’s Flop
By Zachary Roth Jul 15, 2004 at 03:07 PM
The Bush campaign has been remarkably successful at getting the press to buy the notion that John Kerry is a... More
Our Roving Reporter
By Zachary Roth Jul 14, 2004 at 01:44 PM
President Bush won New Hampshire in 2000 by just over 7000 votes, and the state is quietly shaping up to... More
Inspection Misdirection
By Zachary Roth Jul 12, 2004 at 04:21 PM
Covering a speech by President Bush in Tennessee today, in which the president defended his decision to invade Iraq, Deb... 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.
