Campaign Desk
Unintended Consequence Number 38
The hospital big boys get bigger, too
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2010 at 02:26 PM
Over at Kaiser Health News, staff writer Julie Appleby produced an illuminating story about ongoing consolidation among hospitals and physician... More
Unintended Consequences
What the press should have known about health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2010 at 02:20 PM
During the health reform debate, the Obama administration stuck to its mantra—the law would bring competition to health care, which... More
NYT Noses Around, Still Knows Nothing
Whose $400,000 has the Coalition to Protect Seniors spent this election season?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 4, 2010 at 02:40 PM
For anyone who hasn't yet focused on the "shadowy army" of nonprofits spending record-breaking sums influencing the midterm elections, the... More
Seeing FOX for What It Is
News Corp donations mandate reevaluating the network’s role
By Zachary Roth Oct 1, 2010 at 01:40 PM
Will this week mark the beginning of a new phase in the way that Fox News is perceived by the... More
A CJR Town Hall in the Badger State
Wisconsinites sound off about Russ Feingold
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 1, 2010 at 01:04 PM
In this land of beer, brats, and the Packers, it is the autumn of discontent. Anger, distrust, apprehension, disaffection—these are... More
Whitman’s Nanny-gate, Day Two
California’s papers take on a new media frenzy
By Joel Meares Sep 30, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Big new media players owned the Meg Whitman housekeeper scandal that exploded on the West Coast yesterday, “rocking” and “shaking”... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Laurie Cooper
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 29, 2010 at 12:38 PM
Before the year ends, the president’s deficit commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs... More
I Am (I Am, I Am) Super PAC
Making sense of campaign finance coverage may require super powers
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Faster than a 527! More powerful than a political action committee! Able to influence elections with unlimited spending! It’s….. super... More
Media Critic In Chief
Obama on FOX and objectivity
By Zachary Roth Sep 28, 2010 at 01:56 PM
President Obama used his interview with Rolling Stone to open a new offensive in the White House's verbal war with... More
Like a Rolling Stone…
Jann Wenner asks the president about that McChrystal profile
By Joel Meares Sep 28, 2010 at 11:46 AM
The magazine that got General McChrystal fired comes at us next month with another Obama cover, this one bearing a... More
The Nixon Papers You Haven’t Seen
Historians challenge perpetual grand jury secrecy
By Clint Hendler Sep 28, 2010 at 09:51 AM
The Public Citizen Litigation Group, the legal arm of the Ralph Nader-founded watchdog organization, is spearheading a court challenge filed... More
NYT Examines Most “Active” Among “Shadowy Army” of Nonprofits
But can’t tell us where Americans for Job Security gets its cash
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 27, 2010 at 12:36 PM
On Friday, the New York Times’s Mike McIntire provided a detailed look at Americans for Job Security, one among, as... More
Unmet Promises in Times Front Page Story
Putting readers to work on negative ads
By Joel Meares Sep 27, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Last Friday we sang the praises of the Times magazine’s story on the Connecticut Senate race; today, alas, a... More
Distrust and Health Reform
The public smells a rat
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 27, 2010 at 08:00 AM
A fine piece last Wednesday by Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown dissects what political prognosticators from Bill Clinton to Obama pollster... More
To Read This Weekend
The Times’s Matt Bai’s Excellent Connecticut Piece
By Joel Meares Sep 24, 2010 at 03:40 PM
One of the problems with an election cycle like the current one, in which so many local races are fascinating... 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.
