Campaign Desk
Lauer Cops it for “Dimwit” Question in California
Plays cheap with Whitman and Brown
By Joel Meares Oct 27, 2010 at 01:47 PM
Spectacular bit of political theater yesterday in California, if you like that sorta thing. And a certain big name TV... More
Applebaum’s Stewart Rally Stretch
A weak cry for centrism
By Joel Meares Oct 27, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Still scratching my head after reading columnist Anne Applebaum’s op-ed in The Washington Post Monday. The piece is essentially an... More
Social Security in Perspective, Part II
A conversation with Alicia Munnell
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Proposals to change the Social Security system are fast taking shape, and many of them call for substantial benefit cuts... More
Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman
“If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation”
By Joel Meares Oct 26, 2010 at 02:31 PM
Freelance photographer Moises Saman’s pictures from Iraq made the cover of The New York Times both days last weekend. Taken... More
Politico, NYT on “Impact of Outside Money”
Political force, political “excuse”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 25, 2010 at 03:41 PM
At Politico today, you can read about "how much Democrats want to play up the impact of outside money, much... More
A WikiLeaks Question for Journalists from Robert Fisk
Do document dumps put journo jobs in danger?
By Joel Meares Oct 25, 2010 at 03:37 PM
The Iraq War Logs don’t seem to have hit here as hard as their much smaller predecessor—WikiLeaks fatigue? Friday... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Putman
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 25, 2010 at 01:17 PM
This is the fifth of a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More
Times’s Act Two Profile of Assange
A revealing follow-up to The New Yorker
By Joel Meares Oct 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM
Raffi Khatchadourian’s profile of Julian Assange for The New Yorker back in June—before the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs dumps—is... More
A Primer on Early WikiLeaks Coverage
WikiLeaks calls the coordinated media coverage “an extraordinary moment in journalism”
By CJR Staff Oct 22, 2010 at 08:00 PM
Around 5 p.m. on Friday, the online secret-sharing site WikiLeaks released almost 400,000 previously classified U.S. military documents pertaining to... More
Red, White, and Blue, but Not Green
Energy and environment issues lacking in mid-term election coverage
By Curtis Brainard Oct 21, 2010 at 02:26 PM
Remember the 2008 presidential campaign, when candidates and voters alike couldn’t seem to get enough of energy and climate issues... More
Tracking a Meme
Reality vs. spin in the war in Afghanistan
By Joshua Foust Oct 21, 2010 at 11:47 AM
If you opened the New York Times yesterday, you probably saw Carlotta Gall’s big story on the military offensive in... More
A Laurel for Dusting off Fiorina’s Skeletons
Los Angeles Times and others’ good work
By Joel Meares Oct 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM
California’s press may be shrinking, but it has done some great work this election cycle, adroitly guiding voters through a... More
Playing “Whac-A-Mole” With Campaign Finance Disclosure
But, where’s the mallet?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 20, 2010 at 03:18 PM
One of my favorite descriptions of the rapid appearance of ever more outside groups spending (who-knows-whose) money this election season... More
Big Politico Piece Misses Key Ingredient
Again (and again, and again), it’s the economy
By Joel Meares Oct 20, 2010 at 02:56 PM
Politico’s big lead story today on Barack Obama’s struggle to win the white working-class vote is an interesting read with... More
Hasta la Vista, Arnie
Three Sacramento journalists reflect on the Golden State governor
By Joel Meares Oct 20, 2010 at 02:05 PM
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s term ends in January 2011. As the national and local press fixates on who will replace... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
