Campaign Desk
Was a Public Plan Ever Really in the Cards?
Did Sebelius speak the truth?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 25, 2009 at 01:48 PM
The media should have seen it coming. Last week, on CNN, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said a... More
Some Rationality on Medical Rationing
Times takes on health care fears again
By Greg Marx Aug 25, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Last Friday, The New York Times fronted a feature by Kevin Sack about seniors down south who are skeptical about... More
Drowning in the Days
New Post feature tracks Obama’s every move
By Greg Marx Aug 25, 2009 at 09:30 AM
The political junkie’s pastime of obsessively following Barack Obama’s movements took a more quantitative turn this week, as The Washington... More
Stenography Machines
Attention, Mr. Perlstein: there’s nothing new about ‘he said/she said’
By Jordan Michael Smith Aug 25, 2009 at 08:00 AM
In a much-discussed Washington Post essay last week--“In America, Crazy is a Preexisting Condition”--the liberal historian Rick Perlstein argued that... More
If They Can’t Prove It, We Shouldn’t Say It
Stenography does not count as reporting
By Greg Marx Aug 24, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has an interesting, if dispiriting, column out today in which he acknowledges some sobering... More
Transparency Interview: Amrit Singh
An ACLU attorney explains how their FOIA suit helped net the CIA’s torture report
By Clint Hendler Aug 24, 2009 at 03:41 PM
In May, shortly after the American Civil Liberties Union’s longstanding Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking documents illuminating the United States’s... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XIV
Those clever drug companies
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Old News
Times piece fails to make sense of seniors’ health reform fears
By Greg Marx Aug 21, 2009 at 01:06 PM
Robert Pear’s article in today’s New York Times appears under an intriguing, if typically Times-ian, headline: “A Basis Is Seen... More
Getting Away from “Off the Record”
The Sunshine Initiative’s letter is a good first step
By Greg Marx Aug 21, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Earlier this week, a coalition of news organizations led by the Sunshine in Government Initiative sent a letter to hundreds... More
Diving Deep into Blackwater
Press pushes ahead on the CIA assassination story
By Greg Marx Aug 20, 2009 at 12:21 PM
So it turns out there was more to that story about the secret CIA assassination program that made waves five... More
Conflict is Content; Consensus Isn’t
When reporting on the public option, the press takes its cues from political actors
By Greg Marx Aug 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Two months ago, the idea that a news cycle would be dominated by the distinction between a “public option” and... More
The Limits of the ‘It’s Obama’s Fault’ Narrative
Bush didn’t steamroll Congress, either
By Greg Marx Aug 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Kevin Drum had an interesting post yesterday building off the observation that at the recently-concluded Netroots Nation, enthusiasm was markedly... More
The Meta-War in Georgia, One Year On
The war over the war in Georgia is far from over
By Joshua Foust Aug 18, 2009 at 12:11 PM
It’s been a year or so since Russia invaded its tiny southern neighbor, Georgia. The details of why and how... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with British health official Andrew Dillon
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 18, 2009 at 09:01 AM
This past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down... More
Q & A: The Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill
The UK paper’s Washington bureau chief on politics, transparency, and the journalistic power of soccer
By Greg Marx Aug 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM
One of the interesting developments stemming from the growth of Web news and the splintering of traditional audiences has been... 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.
