Campaign Desk
A VIP Pass to Cover the Caucuses
Credentials offer access, amenities for a cost, but some reporters take a pass
By Erika Fry Jan 2, 2012 at 01:57 PM
IOWA — There are a lot of journalists in Iowa right now. But on Tuesday night, when results of the... More
About That Santorum Surge
Let’s cover it with some restraint and self-awareness
By Erika Fry Dec 31, 2011 at 10:07 AM
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA — The media has been abuzz about Rick Santorum since Wednesday, when a CNN/Time/ORC International poll showed... More
Local TV News, Meet the Internet
Why are broadcasters trying to block political campaign transparency?
By Steven Waldman Dec 29, 2011 at 06:53 PM
The FCC has proposed an important rule change that could make the political system more transparent. Amazingly, the trade associations... More
Seeking Truth in the Digital Storm
Colorado’s reporters search for ways to keep up with empowered campaigns
By Mary Winter Dec 29, 2011 at 08:25 AM
COLORADO — Reporter Patrick Malone answers quickly when asked to identify the hardest part of covering politics for his newspaper,... More
Examining Gingrich’s ‘Radical’ Rhetoric on Courts
National press, Iowa editors weigh in, but in-state reporters are mostly quiet
By Andrew Duffelmeyer Dec 26, 2011 at 03:57 PM
IOWA — As Newt Gingrich seeks to shore up his standing with Republican voters here in advance of the first-in-the-nation... More
The Kind of Medicare Story We’d Rather Not See
SmartMoney runs a lackluster listicle
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 23, 2011 at 01:44 PM
Anyone reading SmartMoney’s take on Medicare would want to get granny off the program in New York minute. It was... More
A Rate-Regulation Case Study in Pennsylvania
When insurance rates are news—and when they are not
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 21, 2011 at 04:26 PM
What’s so interesting about insurance rate regulation, and why is it worth reporting on? The topic has everything to do... More
Snapshot: Where Conservative Iowans Get Campaign News
A media diet heavy on talk radio and Fox News
By Andrew Duffelmeyer Dec 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM
IOWA — You heard it last week from an Iowa transplant: Iowans eat meatloaf, casserole and Jell-O molds. This was... More
Q&A: New York Times Iraq reporter Michael S. Schmidt
On finding classified documents in the trash, and transitioning from the sports beat
By Erika Fry Dec 19, 2011 at 05:19 PM
Several weeks ago, New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt, a foreign correspondent in the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau, went looking... More
The Coverage of Wyden-Ryan, Round One
Consensus building to privatize Medicare
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 19, 2011 at 01:59 PM
Robert Pear’s New York Times piece “Support Builds for a Plan To Rein In Medicare Costs” seemed like a leak.... More
Don’t Have a Cow, Iowa
State’s reaction to Atlantic piece forgets its ironic tradition
By Erika Fry Dec 16, 2011 at 05:08 PM
Oh, there's nothing halfway About the Iowa way to treat you, When we treat you Which we may not... More
The Atlantic Gets Iowa Wrong
And in the process, urges national readers to ignore those hicks in the Heartland
By Kirsten Scharnberg Hampton Dec 16, 2011 at 02:40 PM
IOWA — With less than three weeks until the Iowa caucuses, the country is beginning to lock its political gaze... More
Pinning Down the President
Challenging Obama for overpromising on health care
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 15, 2011 at 05:48 PM
In an interview with President Obama on 60 Minutes Sunday night, it was apparent Steve Kroft was taking his questioning... More
For Whom Are Iowa’s Reporters Writing…
…If likely caucus-goers don’t trust (or even read) their campaign coverage?
By Andrew Duffelmeyer Dec 15, 2011 at 03:35 PM
IOWA — Here in the Hawkeye State, as in many other places, conservative skepticism about—if not outright distrust of—the “mainstream... More
Frozen Out in Florida
Campaign reporters face reduced access, reduced budgets
By Brian E. Crowley Dec 15, 2011 at 01:34 PM
FLORIDA — Florida’s political reporters are a lonely bunch. Presidential candidates avoid them. Senior campaign staffers rarely return their calls... 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)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
