Campaign Desk
William Greider on Social Security
A superb take on Obama’s deficit commission
By Trudy Lieberman May 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM
William Greider, writing in The Nation, didn’t mince words when it came to explaining what’s at stake in the looming... More
Rand Paul’s Wild Ride
Did the Kentucky press fail to challenge the GOP Senate nominee?
By Greg Marx May 25, 2010 at 08:37 AM
Over at his new blog, Josh Green has been posting lately on Rand Paul’s victory in Kentucky’s Republican primary for... More
Audit D.C. Notes: Crook on Broken Labour Markets, Bartlett Notices That We’re Getting Old, WSJ Notices Fannie and Freddie
By Holly Yeager May 24, 2010 at 06:32 PM
We’ve been complaining that the long-term unemployment problem isn’t getting enough attention from the business press. But Clive Crook’s latest... More
WaPo Gives Dodd the Tick-Tock Treatment
By Holly Yeager May 24, 2010 at 01:15 PM
Washington newsrooms don’t generate too many tick-tocks these days, and that’s too bad. As a bare-bones version of the form... More
Good Coverage at USA Today
Some smart takes on problems with health and financial reform
By Trudy Lieberman May 24, 2010 at 12:22 PM
The other day, on a plane from Ho Chi Minh City to Hong Kong, a flight attendant thrust a copy... More
Audit D.C. Notes: WaPo on Where the Lobbyists Are, NYT on Whistleblower Buyouts, a Senator Says Too Much
By Holly Yeager May 20, 2010 at 03:10 PM
A wise editor once told me that good journalism is the stuff that readers cut out and stick on the... More
Is Washingtonpost.com Forgetting About Its Congress Page?
By Holly Yeager May 20, 2010 at 12:53 PM
If you woke up Thursday wondering what was happening with the financial regulation reform bill in the Senate, the Congress... More
A Sharper Take on the Razorback State
NYT notes that the vote in Arkansas upended expectations
By Greg Marx May 20, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Campaign Desk noted yesterday how the actual results in Arkansas’s Senate primary complicate the national narratives about an anti-incumbent wave... More
Why Did Halter Do Well?
Arkansas journalists highlight details that complicate the national narrative
By Greg Marx May 19, 2010 at 04:38 PM
Take a look around the political Web today, in the wake of Tuesday’s primary and special elections, and the consensus... More
Border Patrol
Remapping Arizona’s immigration coverage
By Stefanos Chen May 19, 2010 at 04:07 PM
It has been nearly a month since Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law Senate Bill 1070, the strictest anti-illegal... More
Judis Delivers a Tea Party History Lesson
Paul’s Kentucky victory prompts new coverage of the movement
By Holly Yeager May 19, 2010 at 03:34 PM
Rand Paul’s victory in Kentucky has brought new energy to the Tea Party crowd—and prompted a flurry of coverage of... More
Blumenthal Blunders
NPR shines where the Times didn’t
By Clint Hendler May 19, 2010 at 01:27 PM
Despite a congressional sex scandal and three closely watched Senate primaries, yesterday’s news was dominated by The New York Times’s... More
‘Remember Good Old Monroe Schwarzlose?’
An unusual editorial from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
By Greg Marx May 18, 2010 at 05:46 PM
That’s one of the questions posed by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in its highly entertaining endorsement of John Boozman, the front-runner... More
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs?
As press coverage falters, the Washington conversation keeps shifting
By Holly Yeager May 18, 2010 at 02:43 PM
The stubborn unemployment rate may be the biggest economic issue facing the country. But the business press’s coverage hasn’t kept... More
Primary Day Grab-Bag
As the polls open on Campaign 2010, some press pitfalls to avoid
By Greg Marx May 18, 2010 at 01:47 PM
With closely-watched primaries in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas set today, and more on the horizon, there’s been a surge of... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
