Campaign Desk
Is the Past Prologue?
The pedigree of Alan Simpson
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 15, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Before too many weeks pass, I want to comment on an illuminating Gray Matters column by Saul Friedman, an old... More
How to Cover a Non-Story
The Globe knew about that Scott Brown lawsuit—and passed
By Greg Marx Mar 12, 2010 at 02:55 PM
On Thursday afternoon, Gawker reported that Scott Brown—the Republican whose victory in a special election in Massachusetts has cost Democrats... More
Medicare Kicks Out Fox Insurance
And therein lie some lessons for the press
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 11, 2010 at 02:53 PM
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took strong action the other day when it kicked Fox Insurance out... More
When a Story Comes Along, Must You Whip It?
Competing approaches to covering the legislative endgame
By Greg Marx Mar 10, 2010 at 04:14 PM
Since it became clear sometime during the past few weeks that the fate of health care reform rests in the... More
What Was Sebelius Saying?
David Gregory didn’t probe too deeply
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 10, 2010 at 04:01 PM
The president and his staff have brought us to the stump-speech stage of health reform: the familiar talking points, the... More
Audit D.C. Notes: WSJ Good on Wall Street Muni Fees; Newsweek on Design, Bloomberg Goes Contrarian on Obama, Etc.
By Holly Yeager Mar 10, 2010 at 03:54 PM
The Wall Street Journal digs into Build America Bonds, enacted as part of last year’s stimulus plan “to create jobs... More
A Weak Excuse for an Unemployment Story
By Holly Yeager Mar 9, 2010 at 02:44 PM
The Washington Post takes some Senate bait for its page-one story about the long-term unemployed, and the result, is, well,... More
Strategic Error
Times Axelrod profile gets mixed up on messaging
By Greg Marx Mar 8, 2010 at 01:46 PM
Mark Leibovich’s front-page piece on the sufferings of David Axelrod in Sunday’s New York Times—the press apparently having decided to... More
Regulating Health Care, Part III
When is an insurance company too small to cover?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM
The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation... More
Audit D.C. Notes: Medicaid, Rest Stops, Galbraith, Etc.
By Dean Starkman Mar 5, 2010 at 04:58 PM
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities previews the upcoming congressional debate over whether to extend the federal support for... More
Support for WSJ’s Jobs Optimism is Thin
By Holly Yeager Mar 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM
There’s plenty of green-shoot glory in the Journal’s Ahead of the Tape column, which uses accelerating corporate profits to help... More
Bad Diagnoses
The recent ‘Rahm’ stories offer plenty of prescriptions. Are we sure Obama is sick?
By Greg Marx Mar 4, 2010 at 02:00 PM
As my colleague Holly Yeager noted the other day, the spate of Rahm Emanuel stories that have lately been clogging... More
NYT’s Rose-Colored Small Biz Scenario
By Holly Yeager Mar 4, 2010 at 01:03 PM
The New York Times paints an awfully pretty picture of older workers who decide to launch their own businesses. Trouble... More
Meme Change
By Holly Yeager Mar 3, 2010 at 12:50 PM
It looks like an economic meme change is on the way, with some thoughtful columnists charting the course. The Times’s... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part X
Unintended consequences for low-income workers
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM
Four years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... 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.
