Campaign Desk
What Santorum Didn’t Say
On “phony ideology,” some coverage misses a distinction
By Greg Marx Feb 22, 2012 at 05:52 PM
As he tries to cement his newfound position as a leader in the Republican presidential primary campaign, Rick Santorum has... More
What We’re Learning About Hospitals, Part One
A laurel to National Journal
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 22, 2012 at 02:22 PM
Beware the Affordable Care Act! That was the message of a fine National Journal piece that thoroughly investigated the current... More
Dear John King
Some thoughts on debate questions
By Mike Hoyt Feb 21, 2012 at 03:22 PM
A day before the CNN Arizona Republican debate, moderator John King sits down to take your questions live. Send your... More
Words of Warning on the Payroll Tax
The media ponders the wisdom behind the tax holiday’s extension
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 20, 2012 at 01:41 PM
Last week, Congress voted to extend the payroll tax holiday through the end of 2012. Social Security supporters have argued... More
Why We Love The Political Gabfest
Slate’s jocular, incisive podcast builds and engages an audience
By Erika Fry Feb 17, 2012 at 04:24 PM
It was a little before five last Wednesday evening when the “tall Mormon” walked into Antarctica, a bar in lower... More
The Case of the Missing Premium
Transparency for health insurance?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 16, 2012 at 01:44 PM
The Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that health insurers and employers must provide more information to consumers... More
The Elusive Hunt for the ‘Real Romney’
How the search for a politician’s true identity leads to pathological media coverage
By Brendan Nyhan Feb 16, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Though he launched his first run for president more than five years ago, Mitt Romney is still widely seen as... More
At WFLA, Good Questions for Obama…
…but Tampa’s viewers deserved a more balanced report
By Brian E. Crowley Feb 15, 2012 at 04:48 PM
FLORIDA — As I listened to the question being asked I started to groan a bit: “Yesterday you released your... More
The Right-Wing Media’s Discipline Machine
Talk radio and Fox News bully the GOP candidates into line—and, in the process, offer a narrow vision of conservatism
By Ben Adler Feb 15, 2012 at 01:16 PM
When Mitt Romney was asked at a New Hampshire town hall in June 2011 about climate change, he probably did... More
KLAS-TV’s Eight Minutes With the President (and His Message)
On the housing crisis and souvenir M&Ms
By Jay Jones Feb 15, 2012 at 12:37 PM
NEVADA — All day long Tuesday, Las Vegas’s CBS affiliate, KLAS-TV, touted its exclusive, one-on-one interview with President Obama. In... More
Q&A: Robert Higgs, editor of PolitiFact Ohio
On the site’s mission and impact, and on “truth vigilantes”
By T.C. Brown Feb 14, 2012 at 05:05 PM
OHIO — “Just the facts, ma’am.” At the risk of exposing my, er, maturity, I thought that phrase, famously attributed... More
Don Berwick, Press Critic
Observations from Medicare’s former top guy
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 14, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Don Berwick, something of a folk hero to journos covering health care, had a heart-to-heart with the Association of Health... More
Kudos to The New York Times
At last, a good man-on-the-street story
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 13, 2012 at 02:43 PM
Reporters Binyamin Appelbaum and Robert Gebeloff deserve praise for their piece in Sunday’s Times showing how some of the good... More
Mitt Romney’s Soul: The Search is On
But not much luck so far
By Erika Fry Feb 10, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Mitt Romney is: A phony An Eagle Scout The Dad who’s never home The man you want to marry but... More
Some Mistakes at MoneyWatch
A little more homework needed on Social Security, please
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 8, 2012 at 02:37 PM
A recent CBS MoneyWatch piece titled “Social Insecurity” was one of those breezy, glib stories that seemed to telegraph important... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
