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Putting the Senate Under Scrutiny
Post piece ably highlights the oddity of the upper house
By Greg Marx Aug 10, 2009 at 01:00 PM
Over the weekend, Alec MacGillis of The Washington Post had an excellent article on the peculiar nature of the U.S.... More
Health Reform and Obama’s Consumer Protections
Good for consumers, or good for insurers?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Last Wednesday, The Washington Post told us the obvious: that “the fight over health-care legislation is saturating the summer airwaves,... More
Q & A: Spencer Ackerman
Part one of a two-part interview with the national security reporter
By Greg Marx Aug 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM
The rise of Web-based journalism has brought forth an explosion of bright, young, often left-leaning reporters and bloggers. But at... More
The Economy Today: Hope for Jobs, After All?
A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx Aug 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the possibility of a “jobless recovery,” but The Wall Street Journal’s Justin... More
The Economy Today: Better than Expected
A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx Aug 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM
All the major outlets, including The Washington Post, report the news that “only” 247,000 jobs were lost in July, with... More
Town Hall Tumult
As health reform tensions rise, reporters should keep their cool
By Alexandra Fenwick Aug 6, 2009 at 03:38 PM
August is typically a sleepy month for political news. Not this year. The raging health care debate has followed vacationing... More
Straight Talk Archive
Links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s series
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Straight Talk” series, in descending order. 08/13/09: Straight Talk,... More
The Economy Today: New Jobs Report
Economic headlines from New Jersey, Minnesota, Maryland, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx Aug 6, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Jobs continue to disappear, but at a slower rate, The Wall Street Journal reports today, relaying data from the payroll... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part V
Finding affordable health insurance
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 5, 2009 at 02:30 PM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Learning the Wrong Lessons from The Daily Show
Once more into the “Mad Bitch” breech
By Greg Marx Aug 5, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Now that The Washington Post has owned up to pulling Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza’s “Mad Bitch” video, and writers... More
Clunkers, the Economy, and the Environment
When it comes to “green,” reporters focus on the pocketbook
By Curtis Brainard Aug 5, 2009 at 02:12 PM
Since the Department of Transportation announced last Thursday that new-car buyers had bankrupted the “cash for clunkers” rebate initiative in... More
The Economy Today: Eye on Elkhart
A roundup of national and regional economic headlines
By Greg Marx Aug 5, 2009 at 10:00 AM
The major news outlets carry advance looks at President Barack Obama’s return trip to Elkhart, Ind., a Midwestern manufacturing town... More
Health Care Homework for the LA Times
How does the Canadian medical system actually work?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 4, 2009 at 01:42 PM
By now, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. is not going to adopt health reform that in any way resembles... More
The Economy Today: When Government Programs Go Clunk
Economic headlines from Texas, Nevada, and elsewhere
By Greg Marx Aug 4, 2009 at 10:14 AM
With the House in recess and GatesGate fading into the rearview mirror, the uncertain future of the federal government’s “Cash... More
Post Pulls Milbank’s “Mad Bitch” Video
But further explanations are still in order
By Greg Marx Aug 3, 2009 at 05:02 PM
When The Washington Post started drawing heat for its latest “Mouthpiece Theater” video, in which Post staffers Dana Milbank and... 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.
