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First debate low on candidates, substance, & attention
By Clint Hendler May 6, 2011 at 12:35 PM
The first debate of the 2012 presidential season took place last night in Greenville, South Carolina. If you missed it,... More
A Photo of History Being Made (Up)?
Spot the presidential address reenactment photo!
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2011 at 06:07 PM
One of the images below is of President Obama delivering his historic "justice has been done" address live to the... More
Single Sourcing on a Medicare Story at NPR
Covering Medicare, part three
By Trudy Lieberman May 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
“I Am Not Reporting Anything to You”
How Fox News, CNN handled the initial Bin Laden news
By Liz Cox Barrett May 2, 2011 at 06:04 PM
In the event that you were not watching cable news last night, rest assured that Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera and... More
Kudos to Remapping Debate
A refreshing take on a long-legged health reform story
By Trudy Lieberman May 2, 2011 at 09:59 AM
James Lardner deserves a loud shout-out for his piece about the movement—somewhat dormant until now—to make patients into consumers, meaning... More
A Missing Medicare Link from The New York Times
Covering Medicare, Part II
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
Decision 2012 Mad Libs
Our campaign coverage will (be tough but fair; appear on alternate Tuesdays; take its cues from ‘Doonesbury’)
By Steve Daley Apr 26, 2011 at 01:21 PM
To: All Hands From: The Political Editor Re: Decision 2012 - Our Election Coverage It seems like only yesterday that... More
LAT Surveys “Parallel, Opaque System of Political Giving”
If companies don’t disclose, nobody knows
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 26, 2011 at 11:20 AM
A tip of the hat to the Los Angeles Times for spending six months surveying the political spending disclosure practices... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Philly
Shoppers on Market Street sound off
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 25, 2011 at 01:48 PM
Finding myself in Philadelphia recently, I decided to stroll along Market Street and see which of the day’s big political... More
The Guantánamo Files
A roundup of the latest WikiLeaks dump
By Joel Meares Apr 25, 2011 at 01:11 PM
A cache of 759 files leaked by WikiLeaks to ten news partners—and subsequently leaked to three non-partner outlets—is the fourth... More
Michelle Malkin vs. Reality
Copying Betty White
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 22, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Readers of Investor’s Business Daily were treated to an op-ed recently by columnist Michelle Malkin, who was apparently making a... More
One Year After the Spill…
…BP campaign contributions no longer “toxic”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2011 at 09:49 AM
A year, more or less, is apparently how much time had to pass after the massive BP oil spill in... More
Testing the Truth-o-Meter
PolitiFact’s editor on those fiery pants
By Joel Meares Apr 21, 2011 at 06:05 PM
I never thought I’d hear a grown man say he was “comfortable that ‘pants on fire’ was the right... More
Chris Hondros: How He Got that Picture
From CJR’s Covering Iraq oral history
By The Editors Apr 21, 2011 at 02:14 PM
As the world knows by now, the photographers Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed on April 20 in Misurata,... More
HuffPo Strong on North Carolina Benefits Expiring
Arthur Delaney’s solid unemployment reporting
By Joel Meares Apr 20, 2011 at 01:08 PM
The Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney has been doing some solid work following an important unemployment and budget story out... 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?
Fearless British mother who talked down Woolwich terrorists
“It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose”
7 questions for President Obama
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
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.
