Campaign Desk
A More Than Marginally Embarrassing Mistake
USA Weekend caught flatfooted on tax goof
By Greg Marx Sep 6, 2011 at 03:45 PM
See update at bottom of this post. I don’t want to encroach too far onto Craig Silverman’s territory, but USA... More
Rate Regulation Blow-up in California
WellPoint and co. win again
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM
The big news in health reform last week was the insurance industry’s victory in the California legislature, which scotched any... More
In Defense of (the Right Kind of) Horse Race Journalism
When primaries decide party priorities, voters should be brought in on the conversation
By Greg Marx Sep 6, 2011 at 11:18 AM
Horse race journalism has a bad reputation among press critics. The NYU professor Jay Rosen, in a recent talk on... More
Golden Teeth
Dallas’s WFAA shows crooked Medicaid spending on orthodontia
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 1, 2011 at 01:17 PM
These days it’s rare for local TV stations to produce anything resembling an expose. With their steady diet of crime,... More
Missing the Bus
NYTimes overly focuses on one pratfall facing young campaign reporters
By Erika Fry Aug 31, 2011 at 04:54 PM
There was a silly story on the front page of the The New York Times Wednesday morning. With its title... More
Leonhardt’s Sharp Look at the Mind of the Fed
Why has debate at the central bank been so constrained?
By Greg Marx Aug 31, 2011 at 02:15 PM
It’s a few days old now, but David Leonhardt had a great column in the Sunday Review section of The... More
The Facts Ma’am—Just the Facts
Rick Perry dodges Social Security questions, while CNBC explains
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 29, 2011 at 02:05 PM
Rick Perry zipped into Ottumwa, Iowa Saturday with a message about Social Security. Along with the usual jabs at the... More
More Unsettling Insights from Perry’s Eggheads
Politicians are learning more about how to work the media. Can the press push back?
By Greg Marx Aug 25, 2011 at 01:39 PM
A Campaign Desk post the other day noted an interesting claim by Sasha Issenberg, the author of a new ebook... More
Revisiting the Man in the Middle
Health reform won’t help him
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2011 at 03:44 PM
As the Great Health Care Debate wound down, we visited Jeremy Devor, an engineering assistant in Salem, Illinois, a town... More
Money Talks
Why do we never hear from the working class on op-ed pages?
By Erika Fry Aug 24, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Last week, eighty-year-old billionaire Warren Buffett whipped up a media frenzy when, in an op-ed for The New York Times... More
Covering the Fringe Candidates
How should the press decide which dissents to take seriously?
By Greg Marx Aug 23, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Jon Huntsman’s campaign for president doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, so why does he retain his commanding lead in... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Missouri
Do the pols represent the voters?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 22, 2011 at 03:25 PM
As Barack Obama’s bus cruised through the heartland last week, the media told us a fair amount about what the... More
Unsettling Insights from Perry’s Eggheads
The Texas governor gets scientific on how to work the media
By Greg Marx Aug 22, 2011 at 12:23 PM
At the New York Times site today, David Leonhardt has a very interesting Q-and-A with Sasha Issenberg, the former Boston... More
HuffPost and Patch Look for Primary Power Brokers
New initiative to measure GOP conversation, outside the Beltway
By Greg Marx Aug 18, 2011 at 04:36 PM
Early last month, CJR published an interview with Hans Noel, a Georgetown University political scientist and co-author of The Party... More
The Provo Papers
Utah TV reporter tracks down two million-dollar Romney donors
By Erika Fry Aug 18, 2011 at 02:46 PM
A couple weeks ago, NBC News’s national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff broke a story—“a bombshell-of-a-scoop” termed Mother Jones; a political... 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.
