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The Economy Today: Polling the Stimulus
A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx Aug 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM
As signs of economic improvement overseas continue to crop up—most recently, according to The New York Times, in Japan—The Washington... More
Reality Check for the White House
Axelrod’s e-mail raises more questions
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 17, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Last Thursday, in an attempt to counter the health reform misinformation being propagated by President Obama’s ideological opponents, presidential adviser... More
Overemphasizing Obama
The limits of what health care can tell us about the president
By Greg Marx Aug 14, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Dan Froomkin’s first item at The Huffington Post, which appeared on Monday, has drawn some mild criticism from an unlikely... More
The Economy Today: An Upturn Overseas
Economic news from Arizona, Florida, North Dakota, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx Aug 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM
The lead economic story in the American press today is about Europe. As The Washington Post reports, new data from... More
The Wrong Stuff
What we don’t know about how to correct misinformation
By Greg Marx Aug 14, 2009 at 08:20 AM
Pushing back against political misinformation has lately become a growth industry. The Obama administration is trying to counter false claims... More
Straight Talk, Part I
The end-of-life myth and the real long-term care stories to be told
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 13, 2009 at 12:08 PM
With charges, countercharges, information, disinformation, flat-out lies, and half truths being disseminated on all sides of the health reform debates,... More
The Economy Today: A More Upbeat Outlook from the Fed
A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx Aug 13, 2009 at 10:28 AM
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the recession being over or nearly so, and now the Federal Reserve... More
Q & A: The New York Times’s Damon Winter
The Pulitzer-winning photographer on covering contentious town halls
By Alexandra Fenwick Aug 13, 2009 at 09:05 AM
Splashed across the front page of yesterday’s New York Times was a four-column photo of a man shouting at Sen.... More
“Now Don’t You Let the Government Get a Hold of My Medicare”
…and other absurdities of fact-free town halls
By Megan Garber Aug 12, 2009 at 04:02 PM
You could actually pinpoint the moment, yesterday, at which the town hall Claire McCaskill held in Hillsboro, Missouri descended into... More
The Limits of “The Long View”
Times reaches too far to explain restraint of Iraqi Shiites
By Greg Marx Aug 12, 2009 at 02:28 PM
The strength of Rod Nordland’s lead story in today’s New York Times about the current state of the sectarian divide... More
The Economy Today: Schools and the Stimulus
A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx Aug 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM
The economic news of the morning, reported both by the Associated Press and Bloomberg, is that the U.S. trade deficit... More
All About Afghanistan
The press rediscovers the other war in a big way
By Greg Marx Aug 12, 2009 at 09:05 AM
The Forgotten War has been remembered lately. After being relegated to the back pages for the better part of a... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XIII
United Healthcare has a mighty big seat
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 11, 2009 at 02:30 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Q & A, Part Two: Spencer Ackerman
Part two of CJR’s interview with the national security reporter
By Greg Marx Aug 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM
This is the second part of a two-part interview with national security reporter Spencer Ackerman. The first part is here.... More
The Economy Today: Productivity Up; Will Jobs Follow?
A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx Aug 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM
The Washington Post carries an AP story this morning reporting that productivity rose by an annual rate of more than... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
