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Golden Teeth Redux
A Dallas TV station investigates the state’s Medicaid shenanigans
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 7, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Byron Harris, the dogged investigative reporter for Dallas, Texas television station WFAA, has come up with two more installments in... More
Once Again, No Housing Questions for Obama
White House press corps doesn’t follow up on ProPublica story
By Greg Marx Oct 6, 2011 at 04:06 PM
Much of President Obama’s press conference earlier today was devoted to the latest partisan fight in DC over the American... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska
Obama’s disconnect with the voters
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM
In a recent column for The Washington Post, Richard Cohen recounted how FDR cried when he learned that children living... More
New Yorker on Art Pope’s “Singular Influence Machine”
North Carolina, Jane Mayer writes, is a “state for sale”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 4, 2011 at 05:31 PM
Just over a year ago, The New Yorker published Jane Mayer’s widely-discussed look at the “covert operations” of the “billionaire... More
Bad Omens for Health Care
Mixed coverage of the latest premium hikes
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2011 at 12:38 PM
The big news in health care last week was, of course, that average annual premiums for family coverage through employers... More
Q&A: Columnist Charles Stile on Chris Christie
“Now he’s standing in the center of the political universe”
By Erika Fry Sep 30, 2011 at 03:40 PM
For a man who’s not running for president, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has gotten a whole lot of attention... More
Is Occupy Wall Street Getting Its Fair Share of Press?
What would Charles Tilly say?
By Erika Fry Sep 29, 2011 at 04:46 PM
#Occupy Wall Street. To cover or not to cover? That is of course the question that, 13 days into the... More
TNR Highlights Perry’s ‘Crony Capitalist’ Past
Will his indifference to ideology present a primary problem?
By Greg Marx Sep 29, 2011 at 04:12 PM
Former Washington Post reporter Alec MacGillis, who has joined The New Republic to cover the 2012 campaign, has his first... More
Norm Ornstein Gets Congress; WaPo Doesn’t
Result of Republican FEMA brinksmanship described as ‘almost accidental’
By Greg Marx Sep 29, 2011 at 01:50 PM
Remember that New York Times story earlier this week on the (since-resolved) showdown over federal disaster aid—the one that misleadingly... More
Obama Campaign Shows Fundraising “Strength”?
Reuters, AP (and NYT) offer differing takes
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 27, 2011 at 04:51 PM
Should Team Obama be feeling optimistic or concerned about its fundraising prospects this election cycle? That depends. It depends, of... More
HuffPost Goes Deep On Google
Too deep, in fact. Arianna, how about hiring an editor?
By Greg Marx Sep 27, 2011 at 03:26 PM
The Huffington Post trio of Ryan Grim, Zach Carter, and Paul Blumenthal dropped their 6,800-word take on “Google, Microsoft, and... More
60 Minutes, Meet the AP
Scott Pelley’s paean to Ray Kelly’s anti-terrorism juggernaut ignores the wire’s good work
By Erika Fry Sep 27, 2011 at 01:46 PM
On Sunday, 60 Minutes broadcast this fifteen-minute report, “Fighting terrorism in New York City,” in which CBS’s Scott Pelley delivers... More
‘Congress’ Not to Blame for FEMA Feud
New York Times channels misplaced ‘pox-on-both-their-houses’ anger
By Greg Marx Sep 26, 2011 at 03:23 PM
A memo to reporters who write about federal policy disputes: “Congress” is not an actor. “Congress” has no mind. “Congress”... More
Meet the Bay State’s Uninsured
The national media pass on an important story
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 26, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Last week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that 5.6 percent of the population in Massachusetts remained without health... More
NYTimes Misleads on Pace of Flood Relief
FEMA’s disaster delays are structural, not Congressional
By Erika Fry Sep 26, 2011 at 02:04 PM
Congress: dysfunctional, broken, mad, maybe even the worst. Ever. But The New York Times went one too far today in... 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.
