Campaign Desk
Excluded Voices
An interview with Rutgers professor Louise Russell
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 16, 2009 at 09:47 AM
This past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down... More
Stephanopoulos A-; Sebelius D
George bests the Secretary of Health and Human Services
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 15, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Campaign Desk was pleased to see This Week’s George Stephanopoulos try to pin down HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday. The... More
A Shrinking Sunshine Week
Press open government initiative likely to lay off only staffer
By Clint Hendler Jun 12, 2009 at 03:43 PM
In case you haven’t heard, it’s tough times out there for newspapers: Jobs are disappearing, pages are shrinking, bureaus are... More
School’s Out
School budget uncertainties should inform national stimulus reporting
By Jane Kim Jun 12, 2009 at 03:05 PM
Over the past week, local papers have been reporting on the bureaucratic bottleneck of education stimulus funds at the state... More
Health Care Flashpoints, Part II
The individual mandate—when journalism becomes a lobbying tool
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 12, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Over the next few months, health reform will succeed or fail based on a few major flashpoints that will shape... More
The Economy Today: Slider Shots
News from Tennessee, Georgia, North Dakota, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Nationally, The New York Times reports that, “with about 2,000 Chrysler and General Motors dealers losing their franchises as the... More
The “Save or Create” Debate
Keeping track of the White House’s job numbers
By Katia Bachko Jun 11, 2009 at 11:04 AM
The stimulus is a complex, unwieldy piece of legislation, and measuring the bill’s effects has been devilishly difficult. This week,... More
The Economy Today: Czar 21, Where Are You?
Headlines from California, Pennsylvania, and Maryland
By Katia Bachko Jun 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Yet another indicator that the economy still hasn’t quite finished its downswing: USA Today reports that the national free and... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part III
Rapidly rising medical costs jeopardize the state’s insurance miracle
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 10, 2009 at 01:16 PM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
The Economy Today: Money Here, None There (Yet)
News from Oregon, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM
The New York Times reports that charitable giving declined last year “by the largest percentage in five decades” (a decrease... More
The Economy Today: Constructive Construction?
News from Montana, Arizona, Ohio, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 9, 2009 at 09:32 AM
In national headlines, President Obama vowed yesterday to accelerate stimulus spending, with the goal, the Los Angeles Times writes, of... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part IX
PhRMA and the AMA join forces with insurers
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 8, 2009 at 02:23 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
The Economy Today: It’s Wild Out There
Headlines from California, Colorado, New Jersey, Maryland, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko Jun 8, 2009 at 08:31 AM
In national news, we learn that some banks may be ready to repay the government funds that bailed them out.... More
Declined
How a reporter’s pro se FOIA battle ended with Sonia Sotomayor
By Clint Hendler Jun 5, 2009 at 04:24 PM
Alex Wood readily admits that he can be described as a “dissatisfied litigant.” And he would have good reason to... More
Postscript on Single Payer
The San Francisco Chronicle offers some respectability
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM
For months, single-payer advocates have been marginalized by a political establishment which has already defined the boundaries of this round... 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.
