Campaign Desk
What To Do with the “Pledge to America”?
“Front it!” says the media
By Joel Meares Sep 23, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Today’s morning papers were full of reports on the “Pledge to America,” the long-awaited sequel to 1994’s Congress-winning smash, the... More
Tracking the Tea Parties
Good work from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Thumbs up to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a bright, engaging piece about the Tea Party movement in Wisconsin. The... More
Q&A: This Week Host Christiane Amanpour
The move to Sunday morning, her critics, and reporting in a new age
By Joel Meares Sep 23, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Christiane Amanpour has been sitting at the newly refurbished This Week desk for nearly two months now. While some reviewers... More
Going Rogue Again: “Obama’s Wars” Preview a Distraction
All eyes on the publicity machine
By Joel Meares Sep 22, 2010 at 05:56 PM
Bob Woodward’s latest book, Obama’s Wars, has had the kind of publicity-filled day most authors can only dream of: send... More
Kurtz Stays Silent on Peretz
Washington Post media critic avoids controversy, again
By Zachary Roth Sep 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Earlier this summer, when Helen Thomas said Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and return to Germany, among... More
NYT on the ABC’s of 501(c)s
Why these groups are “popping up like mushrooms” this election season
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 21, 2010 at 03:14 PM
Quick: what’s the difference between a 527 group and a 501(c)(5)? What can a 501(c)4 group do that a 501(c)3... More
Old Dog With New Tricks
PBS NewsHour launches new politics site
By Joel Meares Sep 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM
There’s been a lot of activity over at PBS NewsHour this past year. First came the jazzy makeover that saw... More
Tiles, the Issues Wheel, and the Ask America Van
Yahoo News’s hyper-interactive new midterm election site
By Joel Meares Sep 20, 2010 at 03:12 PM
Yahoo News’s recently launched “Ask America” site has an intro that comes at you like a Pixar rendering of Obama’s... More
Times Misfires With Ad Story, True Or Not
Front page story focuses on political maybes
By Joel Meares Sep 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM
You’ve probably read about the to-and-fro between the White House and the Times over today’s cover story, headlined “Obama Advisers... More
Q&A: White House E-mail Lawyer Anne Weismann
CREW issues its final report on a fading scandal
By Clint Hendler Sep 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM
In April 2007, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington told the world that the White House had failed to... More
Q&A: Hawaii Political Reporter Dan Boylan
“It’s the most chaotic election we’ve ever had.”
By Joel Meares Sep 16, 2010 at 04:16 PM
Professor and political reporter Dan Boylan recently retired from teaching history at the University of Hawaii—West Oahu campus; but there’s... More
CJR Holds a Town Meeting
Not everyone knows about health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 16, 2010 at 09:06 AM
A year ago last August, I visited the college town of Columbia, Missouri, and did man-on-the-street interviews with small business... More
O’Donnell Wins, GOP Loses, But Where Are The Voters?
A post-primary day wrap-up
By Joel Meares Sep 15, 2010 at 12:48 PM
It’s the morning after the last major round of primaries and a new political star is born in “dissident,” “little-known... More
Target Corp.’s “Perfect Storm”
A political contribution spawns weeks of headlines (and a flash mob)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 14, 2010 at 01:05 PM
The big news for Target Corp. this summer might have been the unveiling, after a “decade of wooing, of its... More
A Rate Increase for James Windus
Where is the New York media?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 14, 2010 at 09:40 AM
James Windus, a New York City personal trainer, got a nasty letter a few weeks ago from his insurance carrier,... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
