Campaign Desk
How To Keep Secrets
Obama tries to get classification right
By Clint Hendler Sep 2, 2009 at 12:41 PM
It’s no secret that many think America’s classification system is no longer up to the task of protecting the nation... More
The Op-Ed No One Wanted
Canada’s corpse-strewn landscape?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 2, 2009 at 10:31 AM
By now, how many Americans haven’t heard of death panels, and the Big Bad Government interfering with end-of-life decisions that... More
Mob Mentality
The Times’s mafia-and-the-stimulus angle? Whacked.
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 2, 2009 at 08:00 AM
The New York Times had an interesting story on the stimulus earlier this week. Specifically, on the stimulus and—wait for... More
When Kennedy Didn’t Compromise
Lessons from the senator’s early health reform failure
By Cristine Russell Sep 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM
I join the chorus of those who have long admired Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s remarkable Senate career and his persistence... More
The Economy Today: Profits and Losses
Keeping the ledger as the feds play banker
By Alexandra Fenwick Aug 31, 2009 at 01:44 PM
In a twist on the reductive Main Street vs. Wall Street narrative in the government bailout story, the New York... More
CJR’s Town Hall Archive
Links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s series
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “CJR's Town Hall Meetings” series, in descending order. 12/02/11:... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part I
The view from Starbucks at Fifteenth and Third
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Everyone, it seems, is trying to take the pulse of the electorate—Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
The People Have Spoken
Can presidents sway public opinion on divisive domestic issues?
By Greg Marx Aug 31, 2009 at 07:00 AM
A few weeks ago, in the course of arguing that the press was overemphasizing the role President Barack Obama could... More
Laurel to T.R. Reid
For extraordinary clarity in explaining foreign health systems
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 28, 2009 at 01:39 PM
As I have posted many times on Campaign Desk, the media, for the most part, has hardly touched how health... More
The Economy Today: On the Jobs
Tracking stimulus job creation is tricky business
By Alexandra Fenwick Aug 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Yesterday's New York Times featured a great article by Patrick McGeehan, headlined “Tallying Stimulus Jobs Not Easy in New York.”... More
A Solid Piece on Afghan Politics
Times shines a light on Karzai’s circle
By Greg Marx Aug 27, 2009 at 02:03 PM
We’ve been asking recently for more reporting that contextualizes the turbulent political situation in Afghanistan, and explores what that situation... More
Election? What Election?
Debate on Afghanistan should reflect their politics, too
By Greg Marx Aug 27, 2009 at 06:30 AM
Scott Wilson and Joshua Partlow had a front-page story in The Washington Post yesterday that explored the “political test” President... More
The Right Way to Say Goodbye
The conservative blogosphere remembers Ted Kennedy
By Greg Marx Aug 26, 2009 at 01:22 PM
As obituaries published today by major newspapers make clear, Edward Kennedy, the senior senator from Massachusetts who died of brain... More
Ted Kennedy’s Health Care Legacy
Reporting on the lion
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 26, 2009 at 12:31 PM
I met Sen. Ted Kennedy only once. He showed up one winter night at the home of former Labor Secretary... More
The Waiting Game
No election results in Afghanistan, but plenty of stories
By Greg Marx Aug 26, 2009 at 09:06 AM
After a fair bit of media buildup, the presidential election in Afghanistan passed fairly quietly last week. Violence was lower... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
