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Health Care Red Meat from Politico
Business writers, take note
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 18, 2011 at 12:26 PM
One of the most illuminating health care stories to come along in the last couple weeks was Politico’s take on... More
D.C.’s Early Risers on the Import of Info
But Times report lacking a lot of its own
By Joel Meares Jan 18, 2011 at 10:24 AM
A piece on page A14 of this morning’s Times details the pre-dawn “information wars” raging every morning in Washington D.C.—or,... More
“Everyone has a past.”
New Yorker’s brutal Issa profile and, yes, Howard Kurtz
By Joel Meares Jan 17, 2011 at 12:12 PM
We all knew Ryan Lizza’s profile of Darrell Issa was coming. After all, it was a call from Lizza... More
Play With The 2010 News Cycle Thanks To Pew
How did Fox, NBC, NPR fill the year’s “newshole”?
By Joel Meares Jan 14, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Forgive us for not noting this sooner—our attention has been devoted to the Giffords shooting and debates that followed. But... More
Searching for Answers and Questions
The media on what motivated Jared Lee Loughner
By Joel Meares Jan 13, 2011 at 02:25 PM
Rhetoric didn’t pull the trigger in Tucson. That, most people have come to agree upon. So what did? That’s... More
Q&A: Randy Lovely, Editor and Vice President of The Arizona Republic
“To us, all the victims are equally important because they are residents of our state.”
By Joel Meares Jan 12, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Saturday’s shooting in Tucson was something of a marathon challenge for The Arizona Republic’s staff of 310. For starters, the... More
Giffords’ Medical Care
Healthy dose of science coverage adds context
By Curtis Brainard Jan 12, 2011 at 08:30 AM
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remained in critical condition on Tuesday afternoon after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head on Saturday,... More
Room For Debate?
No connection to Giffords, but rhetoric debate still to be had
By Joel Meares Jan 11, 2011 at 02:17 PM
News and analysis continues to swell following the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Broadly: Giffords remains... More
Q&A: Professor of Political Rhetoric Martin J. Medhurst
“Metaphorical violence permeates American political language and always has.”
By Joel Meares Jan 10, 2011 at 12:58 PM
The attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has sparked a debate about the nature of political rhetoric in the... More
PAC Man
USAT, NYT on skirting federal campaign donation limits (creatively)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM
How do potential presidential candidates circumvent donation-limiting federal campaign laws? Let us count the ways. There’s the federal PAC way.... More
Giffords Analysis Machine In Overdrive
The rhetoric narrative swells
By Joel Meares Jan 10, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition. Her alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is not cooperating with police. The motives... More
Politics Begins at the First Shot
Initial errors aren’t the biggest problems in reporting on congresswoman’s attempted assassination
By Joel Meares Jan 9, 2011 at 04:14 PM
Mistakes in the first hours Initial reporting on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona’s Eighth District,... More
The Daley News
What the press is saying about the new COS pick
By Joel Meares Jan 7, 2011 at 01:31 PM
Yesterday President Obama held a press conference to announce that William Daley—the former commerce secretary who went on to a... More
Death Panels Make a Comeback
And pose some larger questions for the press
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Well, what do you know? The Obama administration has resurrected the topic of death panels—or, as one Pennsylvania man called... More
Goodbye Mr. Gibbs
CJR’s writings on the outgoing press secretary
By Joel Meares Jan 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Press secretary Robert Gibbs announced yesterday that he would be stepping down from his position in February. The timing... 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 (18)
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.
