Campaign Desk
Health Care and the Massachusetts Governor’s Race
Kudos to WBUR
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Through the long reform debate, health care and Massachusetts went together like love and marriage—or so the media told us.... More
WaPo Finds (Two) Concerned Taxpayers of America
Day-after disclosure reports report
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 18, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Those groups with the who'd-argue-with-that?-sounding names spending big money this election season? The Washington Post took a look at one... More
CBS Story Short but Not So Sweet
Skimpy info in the network’s take on retirement age
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM
I am not quite sure what point CBS Evening News had in mind a few days ago when it aired... More
The Editor, the Candidate, and the Cuffs
Joe Miller’s extreme “no comment”
By Joel Meares Oct 18, 2010 at 10:22 AM
First, Sharron “earned media” Angle refused to do any interviews in which she could not hawk her website—a tactic that... More
Q&A: Outgoing Harper’s Washington Editor Ken Silverstein
“I never really felt comfortable as part of the blogosphere.”
By Joel Meares Oct 15, 2010 at 07:38 AM
Ken Silverstein left his post as Washington editor of Harper's late last month after four-and-a-half years, and he left with... More
A Defense of Jonathan Capehart
Jarrett criticism is a distraction
By Joel Meares Oct 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM
White House aide Valerie Jarrett copped some serious flak yesterday about her use of the term “lifestyle choice” in reference... More
A Laurel to the Seattle Times
For investigating the state’s adult care homes
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 14, 2010 at 09:31 AM
We’ve become accustomed to newspaper exposes of nursing homes. But other places that house the frail elderly are another matter.... More
Q&A: New York Times Investigative Reporter Mike McIntire
“It’s very, very difficult to crack that veneer of secrecy”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 14, 2010 at 09:16 AM
Mike McIntire joined the New York Times’s national investigative desk during the 2008 presidential campaign. He has also covered City... More
Times Obama Mash-Up
Early magazine piece plays on old themes
By Joel Meares Oct 13, 2010 at 05:57 PM
The New York Times today continued the rather odd practice of dumping its big weekend magazine story online on a... More
Another CJR Town Hall in the Badger State
Wisconsinites sound off about health reform and Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Can I talk to you about health reform, I asked twenty-eight-year-old Michelle Zywicki, who was working at a computer in... More
Two Papers, Two Candidates, Two Styles
LAT and NYT on Whitman and Fiorina
By Joel Meares Oct 11, 2010 at 11:35 AM
A Los Angeles Times story today on the different political strategies of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina will sound familiar... More
Will 501(c) Groups Remain a “Very Safe Place to Play?”
Undisclosed campaign cash and a “regulatory netherworld”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM
It's been a newsy week for American Crossroads, the big-spending 527 group, and Crossroads GPS, its big-spending 501(c)(4) off-shoot. (The... More
Is Romneycare a Success or a Failure?
Don’t ask Politico
By Zachary Roth Oct 6, 2010 at 02:18 PM
If you're looking for a news story that exemplifies what so many people find both engaging and infuriating about Politico,... More
Not Watching Sacramento
The shrinking statehouse press corps
By Joel Meares Oct 6, 2010 at 01:50 PM
When Kimberly Kindy joined the Orange County Register’s Sacramento bureau twelve years ago, she had an itch to do some... More
Obama/Clinton 2012?
The Woodward rumor and the Post’s smart pushback
By Joel Meares Oct 6, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Note to political reporters and pundits: a rumor is a rumor, even if it’s Bob Woodward spreading it. The rumor... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
