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Talking Shop: Dennis Roddy
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter talks about the recession’s effects in western Pennsylvania
By Katia Bachko May 28, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Dennis Roddy knows Pennsylvania. He’s been a general assignment reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since January 1993; before that, he... More
The Economy Today: Weathering the Storm
News from Colorado, Utah, California and elsewhere
By Jane Kim May 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM
USA Today leads with a story about how stimulus projects are bypassing the hardest-hit states. Of the nearly $4 billion... More
Climate Bill Cacophony
With so much back-and-forth on news pages, papers need more editorials
By Curtis Brainard May 27, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Last week, the House Energy and Commerce committee approved energy and climate legislation that could put the first national cap... More
The Economy Today: Songs of Recession
Headlines from California, Tennessee, Florida, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko May 27, 2009 at 09:04 AM
Grilled chicken and lasagna are the latest signs of the recession, USA Today reports. Chain restaurants such as KFC and... More
Watching Sotomayor
How Day One coverage of the Supreme Court pick fared
By Jane Kim May 26, 2009 at 04:45 PM
With the announcement that President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to replace... More
The Economy Today: Governments at Work
Headlines from New Hampshire, California, Montana, Arizona, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko May 26, 2009 at 08:47 AM
This morning, economic news takes a distant backseat to the big news about North Korea. The Washington Post offers a... More
Single-Payer Advocates Finally Get Their Say
Montana papers lead the way
By Trudy Lieberman May 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Twice this month, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has tossed single-payer advocates out of his finance committee hearings on health reform.... More
The Economy Today: More Stimulus Money for Your Mansion?
News from Montana, Utah, New Mexico, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim May 22, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Washington is considering a new agency that would protect consumers of financial products, Reuters reports, as part of an effort... More
CJR on Gaza
Our package of magazine and Web articles about the conflict in the Middle East
By The Editors May 22, 2009 at 08:00 AM
This month, the Columbia Journalism Review is offering three perspectives on the coverage of the fighting in Gaza. J.J. Goldberg,... More
Parsing Obama on State Secrets
Obama promises only “cosmetic” changes
By Clint Hendler May 21, 2009 at 04:40 PM
This morning, President Barack Obama stood before the Constitution at the National Archives and gave an hour-long speech on the... More
Tracking the Money: Craig Jennings on Bailout Transparency
CJR talks with the OMB Watch analyst
By Clint Hendler May 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Craig Jennings is a federal fiscal policy analyst at OMB Watch, a non-profit advocacy and research organization that promotes government... More
California Knockout
Reports focus too myopically on the battle between guv and voters
By Jane Kim May 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM
On Tuesday, California residents voted down—with huge margins—all but one of six bundled ballot measures intended to help alleviate the... More
The Economy Today: Superheroes and Coupon Queens
News from California, Maine, Colorado, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim May 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM
In national headlines, The New York Times reports on the new credit-card measures that Congress passed yesterday, which will increase... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with Jonathan Oberlander
By Trudy Lieberman May 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM
This past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down... More
Not a Showdown
Politico, MSNBC, Time hype Obama vs. Cheney non-controversy
By Katia Bachko May 20, 2009 at 04:08 PM
As we’ve noted before, nothing gets media juices flowing like a tasty conflict. A few months back, it was Limbaugh... 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.
