Campaign Desk
A Dart to the Buffalo News
Paper confuses Medicare Advantage news with insurance marketing tactics
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM
The Dewey Square Group must have been pleased as punch to see the Buffalo News’s coverage of its Medicare Advantage... More
What Price is Right?
Collaboration needed between business and politics reporters
By Katia Bachko Apr 24, 2009 at 11:59 AM
In this morning’s roundup, we saw a number of headlines about slumping housing prices around the country. In San Diego,... More
First 100 Days Mad Libs
Our “100 days” coverage has been (applauded; too expensive; largely cribbed from Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter feed)
By Steve Daley Apr 24, 2009 at 11:00 AM
From: The Editor To: All Hands Re: The First 100 Days Since President Obama took office, we have (focused with... More
The Economy Today
Headlines from around the country
By Katia Bachko Apr 24, 2009 at 09:51 AM
Here’s a quick survey of economic news from around the country: The San Diego Union Tribune offers three indicators that... More
Mortgage Defaults Beyond the Numbers
Chronicle reports the figures, LAT goes deeper
By Jane Kim Apr 23, 2009 at 02:37 PM
Yesterday, a San Diego real estate information service called MDA DataQuick released numbers that show a rising number of mortgage... More
Above the Fold: Know-Nothings at the NYT
Times waterboarding story reports, demonstrates ignorance of history
By Charles Kaiser Apr 22, 2009 at 05:34 PM
“There is no history of ethnic conflict in Iraq.” – former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, explaining to Congress... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part VII
WellPoint brings forth voices from the grassroots
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 22, 2009 at 12:29 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
To America, With Love, Signed Barack Obama
NYT too wide-eyed on White House mailman story
By Jane Kim Apr 21, 2009 at 03:30 PM
The New York Times had a sweet story yesterday about Mike Kelleher, the White House mailman (official title: Director of... More
Mixed Messages
The press searches for good news in economic indicators
By Katia Bachko Apr 21, 2009 at 03:20 PM
“I'm tired of feeling financially defeated all the time,” wrote Washington Post personal finance blogger Ylan Mui last week. Even... More
Budget Balancing Acts
LAT zooms in on California’s Props 1D and 1E
By Jane Kim Apr 20, 2009 at 01:39 PM
A Los Angeles Times article today discusses two propositions that will appear on the state’s May 19 special election ballot,... More
Follow the Money
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel tracks the stimulus dollars in Wisconsin
By Katia Bachko Apr 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Kudos to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel for setting an example of how newspapers can and should cover the progress of the... More
Snail Mail Disclosure
ProPublica frees ethics information for the Internet age
By Clint Hendler Apr 20, 2009 at 08:03 AM
President Barack Obama ran a technology savvy presidential campaign that promised a more ethical and transparent government. The Office of... More
A Tale of Two Palins
Politico and the NYT offer conflicting assessments of the Alaska governor
By Katia Bachko Apr 17, 2009 at 01:49 PM
Depending on where you get your Sarah Palin news, you might have two very different ideas about how the Alaska... More
Omnipresence, That Irritating Thing
Roger Simon’s problem with Obama’s ubiquity
By Jane Kim Apr 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM
On the scale of one to ten of irritating things that a president might do while dealing with an economic... More
Inst-Tea-Gators
Local radio hosts loom large over tea parties
By Katia Bachko Apr 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Much ink has been spilt debating whether yesterday’s tea parties were “an organic movement built on genuine anger, or a... 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?
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?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
