Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Stimulus Naughts
News from Ohio, Maryland, Michigan and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 5, 2009 at 10:13 AM
In national headlines, state revenues are being buffeted by the economic downturn. The information comes from a new report by... More
Talking Shop: Yvonne Wenger
The Post and Courier’s statehouse reporter talks about covering South Carolina
By Katia Bachko Jun 4, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Nowhere in the country is the fight over the stimulus bill more heated than in South Carolina. Governor Mark Sanford’s... More
The Economy Today: Who Will Lead?
Headlines from Colorado, Massachusetts, Oregon, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko Jun 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM
The government has extended a massive economic safety net to Americans, USA Today reports this morning. Benefits like Social Security,... More
The Economy Today: Hope Floats
Headlines from Texas, Idaho, North Carolina, Hawaii, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko Jun 3, 2009 at 08:32 AM
As the GM bankruptcy dominated headlines, President Obama asserted that the Chrysler bankruptcy offered a good blueprint for success. But... More
Sotomayor’s “Sweet” Side
Coverage of judicial nominee’s diabetes lacks breadth
By Sanhita Reddy Jun 2, 2009 at 05:06 PM
Over the past week, members of the news media have talked a lot about SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s race and... More
Idle Wor$hip
The media’s love affair with celebrity economists and financiers
By Katia Bachko Jun 2, 2009 at 03:21 PM
Ours is a media culture obsessed with celebrities. We care what celebrities think about politics: witness Alec Baldwin writing about... More
What a Young Reporter Learned from the UAW
Lessons about health care and other matters
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM
There was a poignancy to Paul Solman’s News Hour interview Thursday with Ron Gettelfinger, the president of the United Auto... More
The Economy Today: Recession Sickness
Headlines from California, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Iowa
By Katia Bachko Jun 2, 2009 at 08:49 AM
National news is all about the GM bankruptcy filing. The New York Times offers a particularly necessary bit of consumer-minded... More
Our Paradoxical Future
Expensive education may dampen Obama’s ambitions for healthcare and education
By Katia Bachko Jun 1, 2009 at 04:26 PM
One seldom-mentioned aspect of efforts to provide all Americans with better educational opportunities, or to offer health insurance to everyone,... More
Baucus Watch, Part X
Disagreements surface among the Dems
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
The Economy Today: Chapter 11
News from Detroit, Orlando, Fort Worth, Hanford and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Jun 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM
National headlines today focus on the news that General Motors will declare bankruptcy. The move, the largest industrial bankruptcy in... More
What the Heck Do the Senators Mean?
More clues about a public plan
By Trudy Lieberman May 29, 2009 at 02:44 PM
Right before the holiday weekend, Ohio senator Sherrod Brown and twenty-seven other Democratic senators introduced a sense of the Senate... More
The Economy Today: Wait, How Much Did We Spend?
Headlines from New Mexico, Tennessee, Maine and elsewhere
By Jane Kim May 29, 2009 at 10:26 AM
The New York Times reports that, earlier this month, the Obama administration overstated (by “roughly a third”) how much of... More
Watching Sotomayor, Part II
If it’s a fight, define the sides better
By Jane Kim May 29, 2009 at 09:07 AM
We had our fingers crossed that coverage of Sonia Sotomayor’s SCOTUS nomination would manage to skirt the sort of reaction... More
Openness Ombudsman: Lucy Dalglish on the OGIS and FOIA
An interview with the RCFP’s executive director
By Clint Hendler May 28, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Lucy Dalglish is the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Earlier this year, CJR spoke... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
