Campaign Desk
Q & A: Rick Perlstein
The liberal historian on ACORN, the Post, and wagging the dog
By Greg Marx Sep 22, 2009 at 05:52 PM
As the recent scandals surrounding the green-jobs advocate Van Jones and the community organizing group ACORN have shown, even under... More
Redacted: WaPo’s Unprecedented Deal with the Pentagon
The McChrystal report: Who did the redacting?
By Clint Hendler Sep 22, 2009 at 03:58 PM
This week’s news cycle seems certain to be dominated by The Washington Post’s huge scoop: its acquisition of a confidential... More
When a Tax Is a Tax
The New York Times explains
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 22, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Reed Abelson deserves a shout-out for her story Sunday detailing how Sen. Max Baucus and his Senate Finance Committee plan... More
Of FOX News and Catnip
Alessandra Stanley’s treatment of the Obama “snub” misses the point
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 21, 2009 at 07:07 PM
Alessandra Stanley’s New York Times piece today on President Obama’s health care-themed weekend media blitz included a photo montage that... More
The President versus Stephanopoulos
When is a tax not a tax?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 21, 2009 at 08:00 AM
I had a lot of sympathy for George Stephanopoulos Sunday when he faced the president in a one-on-one interview. This... More
Medical Homes? You’ve Got To Be Kidding
The new health care dialect
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 20, 2009 at 11:58 AM
At a gathering of Washington health care journalists last week, panelists, including myself, talked about the challenges of covering this... More
ACORN’s Family Tree
Was the Baltimore video journalism? Does it matter?
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 18, 2009 at 05:44 PM
In a piece in the October 2009 issue of The Atlantic, “The Story Behind the Story,” journalist Mark Bowden examines... More
Seeds of Discontent
What does the ACORN story mean for the mainstream media?
By Greg Marx Sep 18, 2009 at 03:31 PM
James O’Keefe, the pimp-playing provocateur who set out to target ACORN with a video camera, a cheesy costume, and a... More
Examining the Individual Mandate
The Wall Street Journal takes a hard look in Massachusetts
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 18, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Hurrah! At last a major publication has looked in some depth at the central feature of the Obama-et-al health plan.... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VI
The canary in the coal mine
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 16, 2009 at 09:54 AM
Three years ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Cheech and Chong Aren’t Dead Yet
Not everyone in the media is ready to take drug reform seriously
By Greg Marx Sep 15, 2009 at 01:20 PM
David Downs presents a lot of support today for the proposition that the media is, at long last, adopting a... More
Bipartisanship Has Sailed
Political consensus is not an unalloyed good
By Greg Marx Sep 15, 2009 at 10:44 AM
In Politico yesterday, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen had a good, interesting piece about why, in their words, “bipartisanship gets... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XV
The gun owners come out of the woodwork
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 14, 2009 at 10:42 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Measuring a Speech’s Success
In speech reax stories, competing theories of politics
By Greg Marx Sep 14, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Barack Obama’s big health care speech last week has, in general, been deemed a success by the media and the... More
Joe Wilson’s War
In praise of indecorous debate
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 11, 2009 at 03:01 PM
It may be an unpopular opinion, seeing as the rest of the world has piled onto Rep. Joe Wilson of... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
