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Park Slope Pundits Get the Story Wrong

Why lifestyle pieces need context

I grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, so a headline on The New Yorker's homepage Monday, declaring "Park Slope is... More

Stories I’d Like to See

A trove of stories from the Facebook IPO

In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More

Stories I’d Like to See

The Dodd-Frank effect, unions and private equity, and Newt’s expenses

In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More

To Sue or Not to Sue?

The first two years of OGIS

Last June in Las Vegas, Corinna Zarek told a ballroom full of investigative journalists at the annual Investigative Reporters and... More

Why Aren’t More Arab Americans Working in Mainstream Journalism?

Group remains underrepresented in US newsrooms

There are anywhere between 3.5 and 5.1 million Americans of Arab descent, according to figures from the Arab American Institute,... More

Updating the Privacy Protection Act for the Digital Era

Law protecting journalists from searches didn’t anticipate cloud computing

Cloud computing is all the rage. Traditionally, people had to store, manage and process data on a personal computer or... More

Local TV Stations Rally to Oppose Media Transparency

What exactly are their “public interest obligations”?

Local television stations have now rallied against the key elements of the Federal Communications Commission’s media transparency proposal, which would... More

Stories I’d Like to See

More primary math, Boeing’s second chance, and DHS mission creep

In his weekly “Stories I’d Like to See” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More

Local TV Stations Rally to Oppose Media Transparency

What exactly are their “public interest obligations”?

Local television stations have now rallied in opposition to the Federal Communications Commission’s media transparency proposal, which would require broadcasters... More

Stories I’d Like to See

Campaign questions, the world’s worst government agency, and medical lobbies

In his weekly "Stories I'd Like to See" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion,... More

Two Years Later, Haitian Earthquake Death Toll in Dispute

Journalists can do a better job reporting controversial numbers in disaster zones

Fifteen miles north of the National Palace in Port au Prince, along Haiti’s azure coastline, is a place called Titanyen.... More

Best of 2011: Trudy Lieberman

CJR’s health and entitlements reporter picks her top stories from the past year

Peter G. Peterson Goes to School: Organizations funded by Peter G. Peterson, a former Wall Street investment banker and long-time... More

Best of 2011: Lauren Kirchner

From AOL to HuffPo, Kirchner picks her top CJR stories from the past year

Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine: When The Daily launched early this year—to great hype and then to great... More

Movement Man

Meet Chris Faraone, Occupy reporter for the Boston Phoenix

The week before Occupy Boston changed Chris Faraone's life, grassroots revolution was already on his mind. Faraone, who covers rap... More

Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’

“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”

The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit

Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything

The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy

How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”

Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement

Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation

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