Campaign Desk
Seven Questions for Barack Obama
Congratulations, Mr. President. Now get to work.
By CJR Staff Jan 21, 2009 at 10:06 AM
As the inaugural crowds pack their bags and head home from Washington, suffused with the sense of having been part... More
Borderless Journalism in Gaza
BBC, CNN-I, and Al Jazeera English offer nuanced coverage of Gaza war
By Lawrence Pintak Jan 21, 2009 at 09:09 AM
CAIRO – In television terms, Gaza has been déjà vu all over again. U.S. television has been dominated by talking... More
Missing Children
The story behind the story on SCHIP
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Last week, the House passed a long-awaited bill that would increase the number of kids covered under the State Children’s... More
Access Issues
NRO’s Gutmann says the media ban in Gaza was justified
By Jane Kim Jan 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM
On Jan. 6, The New York Times published an editorial called “Incursion into Gaza,” in which it argued for media... More
Live Blogging the Inauguration Live Blogs
Starting here around 11 AM
By The Editors Jan 20, 2009 at 10:21 AM
CJR staffers will be reading a selection of today's inauguration live blogs so that you don't have to, and will... More
Above the Fold: More Tortured Logic
Dick Cheney, Susan Crawford, Jim Lehrer, and “moving forward”
By Charles Kaiser Jan 19, 2009 at 09:48 AM
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts....Actions are held to be good or... More
Hamas ≠ Nazis (or Hamas = Nazis?)
In some equations, proportionality does matter
By Jane Kim Jan 16, 2009 at 03:38 PM
"Who are the real Nazis?" read a recent op-ed headline in the Los Angeles Times. The column it announced, penned... More
Dart to the Florida Health News Service
Whose side is it on, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM
“Will Obama be able to kill popular Advantage plans?" Whoa! The headline sounded ominous and signaled that the new president... More
WellPoint Gets in Trouble with Medicare
Journalists should jump on this story ASAP
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM
It’s not everyday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cracks down hard on one of its clients;... More
Stop the Ambulance Chasers!
Knowing a lot about Iraq doesn’t help you much in Afghanistan
By Joshua Foust Jan 12, 2009 at 01:25 PM
Now that the war in Iraq is won, according to journalist-bloggers like Michael Yon, we can expect to see a... More
Health Care Flashpoints Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 12, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” series, in descending order. 06/29/09: Health... More
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?
Kaiser on Newsweek’s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover
By Charles Kaiser Jan 12, 2009 at 09:50 AM
With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their... More
A Headline Writer Gets Carried Away
A real plan, or a lot of sweet talk from Daschle and his Senate colleagues?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 12, 2009 at 09:19 AM
The headline on a New York Times story Friday piqued my interest and probably that of health care mavens who... More
Politicker Out
Political blog network shutters all but two sites
By Clint Hendler Jan 9, 2009 at 03:12 PM
The Politico’s Michael Calderone brings the news that the battered Politicker network of sites is abandoning its last remnants outside... More
The Opinion Chorus on Gaza
What columnists and opinion writers argued, explained, and claimed this week
By Jane Kim Jan 9, 2009 at 02:22 PM
Fourteen days into the Israeli offensive in Gaza, opinion writers and op-ed columnists have spent no deficient number of inches... 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.
