Campaign Desk
Did the ‘Cornhusker Kickback’ Sink Coakley?
Figuring out why voters made the choice they did is a tricky task
By Greg Marx Jan 26, 2010 at 04:34 PM
In the ongoing effort to explain Scott Brown’s Senate victory in Massachusetts—a win that has not only thrown health care... More
Freeze, Framed
By Holly Yeager Jan 26, 2010 at 02:39 PM
Hello, my name is Holly, and I’ll be your fiscal-and-economic-policy-coverage media critic here at The Audit. Would you like freeze... More
Holly Yeager is CJR’s first Peterson Fellow
By Mike Hoyt Jan 25, 2010 at 03:34 PM
The Columbia Journalism Review is pleased to announce the appointment of Holly Yeager as its first Peterson Fellow, covering news... More
The Devil in the Details, Part V
The disabled still must wait for Medicare
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
What’s the Impact of Citizens United?
Some scholars argue the biggest changes may have already happened
By Greg Marx Jan 22, 2010 at 03:46 PM
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling yesterday in Citizens United v. FEC, overturning the federal ban on corporate spending in elections,... More
Re-examining Massachusetts Health Care
Post-election comments from the MSM miss the boat
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 22, 2010 at 01:06 PM
Wednesday on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Richard Parker, who lectures at Harvard’s Kennedy School, talked about his son’s hockey coach,... More
Another Read on Health Care Politics
Do voters want better care—but only for themselves?
By Greg Marx Jan 21, 2010 at 03:31 PM
As the attempt to suss out the meaning of the Massachusetts Senate election continues, Alec MacGillis weighs in today with... More
Disastrous Comparisons
Haiti is not New Orleans
By Alexandra Fenwick Jan 20, 2010 at 03:10 PM
Last week, as the story about the earthquake in Haiti became the story of the relief effort in Haiti, opinion... More
Mixed Messages in Massachusetts
Still looking for meaning in the Brown-Coakley results
By Greg Marx Jan 20, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Now that the counting’s over in Massachusetts and the crying’s begun for Democrats, with a conservative Republican poised to take... More
Obama the Essayist
The president’s Newsweek piece didn’t deliver much for readers
By Greg Marx Jan 20, 2010 at 09:49 AM
In a brief note at the end of his column last Friday, Slate’s Jack Shafer asked why Barack Obama would... More
Pre-game Prognostications
The press looks for meaning in the Massachusetts Senate race
By Greg Marx Jan 19, 2010 at 01:34 PM
There are few things political journalists enjoy more than playing up a big event, pontificating on its meaning, and speculating... More
Health Care and the Massachusetts Senate Race
What’s bothering folks up there, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 19, 2010 at 08:46 AM
When President Obama came to Massachusetts to rally the troops for Martha Coakley Sunday, he had little to say about... More
Who Was at the Table?
A clever lobbying tactic from the insurers
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 15, 2010 at 03:47 PM
No one can ever call the insurance lobby stupid. Last fall a pro-reform advocate was positively gleeful when she told... More
Regulating Health Care Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Regulating Health Care” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 15, 2010 at 10:48 AM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Regulating Health Care” series, in descending order. 03/08/10: Regulating... More
One-Way, Wrong Way
The underwear bomber didn’t actually buy a one-way ticket
By Greg Marx Jan 15, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Earlier this week, Justin Elliott had a great piece at TPM Muckraker exploring how the notion that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,... 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.
