Campaign Desk
The Supercommittee’s Avoidable Consequences
Early coverage overstated inevitability of cuts
By Erika Fry Nov 21, 2011 at 06:19 PM
So, it turns out the supercommittee has failed. This should surprise no one, as most in the media had been... More
There Is Bipartisan Consensus on Taxes
And it’s making it harder to close the deficit
By Greg Marx Nov 21, 2011 at 05:43 PM
With the congressional “supercommittee” unable to agree on a deal to cut the deficit, the theme of this morning’s coverage... More
Congress Nixes Climate Service
GOP lawmakers deny NOAA proposal to create central information hub
By Curtis Brainard Nov 21, 2011 at 03:45 PM
Congress has denied the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) bid to create a promising “one stop shop” for data... More
A Shoutout to MarketWatch
For a report that examined the future of long-term care
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 17, 2011 at 01:23 PM
Last week, MarketWatch did the kind of report we have been urging the media to do on a subject they’d... More
Politicians and Penn State? Pass.
The presidential candidates have nothing to add to this scandal
By Erika Fry Nov 16, 2011 at 03:19 PM
Last night, Sarah Palin told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren that if it were up to her to deal with... More
Back to Watergate Era “Bags of Cash”?
NPR on what was illegal then is “fair game” now
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 16, 2011 at 01:50 PM
“The pre-Watergate bags of cash are back,” declares MSNBC’s First Read this morning, pointing to a New York Times piece... More
It Wasn’t ‘Liberal Media’ That Froze Out Bachmann
And why the press is right to focus on the front-runners
By Greg Marx Nov 14, 2011 at 02:39 PM
Over the weekend, a media micro-controversy broke out: CBS News political director and Slate reporter John Dickerson wrote in an... More
A Laurel to the AP
For its eye-opening story on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM
The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the... More
At GOP Debate, Good Work by CNBC
Will the rest of the media take the opportunity to follow up?
By Greg Marx Nov 10, 2011 at 05:01 PM
There’s an obvious top story coming out of last night’s Republican presidential debate: Rick Perry’s “oops” moment, which reinforced a... More
After Perry’s Gaffe, a Silence
Coverage should make room for what he meant to say
By Erika Fry Nov 10, 2011 at 03:17 PM
It was “a cringe-worthy gaffe”, “a brain freeze”, “a political nightmare”, “a crash”, “an epic fail.” It “will likely go... More
Let’s Slow Down the Cain Train
Harassment charges are important. But so is so much else.
By Erika Fry Nov 8, 2011 at 04:11 PM
And so here we are, into the second week of Cain-demonium: the breathless reporting, speculating, and opining about the late-1990s... More
WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece
Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM
By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday... More
On Cain Story, Politico Had Grounds to Publish
Despite the story’s flaws
By Greg Marx Nov 5, 2011 at 03:25 PM
Jack Shafer and Stephen Engelberg haven’t changed their minds: Politico, they still believe, made a journalistic error when it decided... More
Live from the White House, it’s KETV
Obama goes local; local anchors land on the South Lawn
By Erika Fry Nov 3, 2011 at 04:10 PM
The news at KETV Wednesday afternoon was much as you would expect from an ABC affiliate in Omaha. Among the... More
The “Government Takeover of Health Care” Is Baaaack!
Chris Christie waves the bloody shirt
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 3, 2011 at 01:22 PM
A “government takeover of health care” is back. At least it is in the mind of New Jersey governor Chris... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
