Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Rise of the Gleaners
News from New Mexico, Florida, Texas, and elsewhere
By Jane Kim Apr 30, 2009 at 10:05 AM
In Texas, we see stories about stimulus checks, tax breaks, and hurricane funds. The Gainesville Daily Register notes that $250... More
How I Got the Story: David McCraw
The lawsuit behind The New York Times’s Pulitzer-winning military analyst story
By David E. McCraw Apr 29, 2009 at 04:01 PM
This is the first in an occasional series asking journalists and other media professionals to recount noteworthy open government and... More
Premature Legacy
Evaluating Barack Obama on Day 100
By Katia Bachko Apr 29, 2009 at 03:58 PM
As we’ve noted before, much Obama coverage is eager to write history in advance of the present either by speculating... More
Specter of a Surprise
Was the senator’s switch really unexpected? No.
By Katia Bachko Apr 29, 2009 at 02:37 PM
Surprising, unexpected, shocking, and stunning. Those are the adjectives the press used to disguise the collective OMG reaction to Pennsylvania... More
The Economy Today: Trickling In
News from Utah, Montana, Connecticut, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko Apr 29, 2009 at 09:20 AM
The big national headline this morning is another contraction in the economy, which shrank by 6.1 percent in the second... More
Defense by Numbers
More clarity needed on F-22 unemployment stats
By Jane Kim Apr 28, 2009 at 04:26 PM
The Washington Post today reports that contractors, labor unions, and trade groups claim cuts in federal weapons programs may put... More
Baucus Watch, Part VIII
What kind of public plan is the senator talking about?
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 28, 2009 at 02:45 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
Above the Fold: Ross Report Revisited
Kaiser on Stelter, Ross, and the 2007 CIA waterboarding interview
By Charles Kaiser Apr 28, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Brian Stelter reports on page one of The New York Times today that newly disclosed torture memoranda show how an... More
Today’s Economic Headlines: Gaps and Cuts
Economic news from Omaha, Detroit, Madison, and elsewhere
By Katia Bachko Apr 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM
In national news, bank regulation will be on the agenda at the Supreme Court today, while the Senate and House... More
Toying with Climate Information
Media last week rife with stories of misdirection
By Curtis Brainard Apr 27, 2009 at 05:59 PM
The news media and blogs were rife with stories last week about politicians and journalists alike manipulating information related to... More
NY Fed Releases Geithner’s Schedule
But don’t go calling it a FOIA
By Clint Hendler Apr 27, 2009 at 03:13 PM
Last night, on its Web site, The New York Times released a 5,000 word piece, by Gretchen Morgensen and Jo... More
Today’s Economic Headlines
How the country’s newspapers are covering the financial crisis
By Katia Bachko Apr 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Here’s what the nation’s papers are writing about today. The Topeka Capital-Journal launches “Road Through Recession,” a local-focus series. Reporter... More
The Century Mark
Let’s go substantive on 100-day coverage
By Jane Kim Apr 27, 2009 at 11:01 AM
President Barack Obama’s hundredth day in office is approaching, and, as Howard Kurtz wrote on Friday (a.k.a. Day 95), it’s... More
The Recession is Making Us Fat
Eliminating the health-wealth divide
By Katia Bachko Apr 24, 2009 at 03:56 PM
A recent Newsweek piece cautioned that “one of the most insidious health effects of a downturn is in the area... More
A Laurel to the Eagle-Tribune
Paper gets Astroturfed and smells a rat
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 24, 2009 at 12:51 PM
The grassroots army is on the march. On Wednesday, Campaign Desk reported that health insurers have called up the grassroots... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
