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WaPo: Where’s the CTO?
By Clint Hendler Mar 2, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Back during the campaign, technophiles and transparency advocates were particularly excited by Barack Obama's pledge to appoint a Chief Technology... More
Adieu, Medicare Advantage?
Another insurer gets in trouble
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM
A week or so ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ordered WellCare, the super-aggressive seller of Medicare... More
Where’s the Plan?
The media score well on their first-day budget stories
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 27, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Yesterday morning, a friend e-mailed asking for my take on the President’s plan for health reform. Perhaps she was looking... More
Above the Fold: Barack’s Bold Budget
“The most radical document of its kind since Reagan’s first year in office”
By Charles Kaiser Feb 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Barack Obama's budget proves he was serious when he promised fundamental change if he became president. Everyone in the MSM... More
The Unemployment Line
More context is needed when reporting unemployment statistics
By Haley Sweetland Edwards Feb 26, 2009 at 04:03 PM
Unemployment numbers, like all good statistics, can be deceiving. Sometime next week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the... More
In Search of Lost Timelines
The Iraq drawdown extension and the end of the age of the “newsdump”
By Megan Garber Feb 25, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Yesterday afternoon, during the buildup to last night's State-of-the-Union-in-all-but-name, the administration leaked some rather important information to the press: President... More
FOX Business Fights with FOIA
Bringing in bailout documents—and viewers
By Clint Hendler Feb 25, 2009 at 01:25 PM
By September 23, the federal government was already facing ample criticism over inadequate disclosure of basic information on its ballooning... More
Mandating Health Coverage Makes a Comeback
The President and the man on the street
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Last night, with his voice full of force, the President boomed: “Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait,... More
Look Who’s Talking Now?
A quiz about the reactions to last night’s presidential address
By Katia Bachko Feb 25, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Below you’ll find a list of fifteen slightly obscured quotations from newspapers... More
Assessing Jindal
Critics look past the delivery and slam the speech’s substance
By Jane Kim Feb 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Bobby Jindal, the thirty-seven-year-old governor of Louisiana, delivered the Republican response to Pres. Obama's faux-state-of-the-union address last night. It was... More
Divining Obama’s Health Care Budget
Early signals and the need for sharp eyes
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 24, 2009 at 01:31 PM
Sam Stein, who blogs at the Huffington Post, apparently has a pipeline to the health care gods—in this case, a... More
Q and A: St. Petersburg Times’s Bill Adair
Behind the scenes of the Obameter
By Katia Bachko Feb 23, 2009 at 02:16 PM
Just in time for the inauguration, the St. Petersburg Times expanded its Politifact operation to launch the Obameter, a running... More
Tales from the FBI’s Crypt
WaPo’s Joe Stephens FOIAs the dead
By Clint Hendler Feb 23, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Last Thursday, readers of The Washington Post woke up to find an interesting— but hardly timely—story on the front page... More
The Wise and the Reckless
On the housing plan and the “unscrupulous or irresponsible”
By Jane Kim Feb 20, 2009 at 12:42 PM
In Phoenix Wednesday, President Obama introduced the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan as an effort that would neither “rescue the... More
Update on Medicare Advantage Plans
The administration’s unfinished business
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 20, 2009 at 07:00 AM
At the tail end of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he wanted to reduce the federal government’s overpayments to... 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.
