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The pros and cons of blasting Betsy McCaughey
By Greg Marx Oct 7, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Former New York lieutenant governor Betsy McCaughey has been much in the news the last few days, and she’s been... More
Bribe This
Despite years of failure, pundits still want to bribe Pashtuns
By Joshua Foust Oct 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM
There is a dark irony to the faintly racist idea that Afghans are unprincipled mercenaries available to the highest bidders,... More
President, Know Thyself
WaPo’s Cohen on the Afghan war as a presidential self-actualization tool
By Greg Marx Oct 6, 2009 at 10:54 AM
There are lots of ways of thinking about foreign policy: not just political labels of recent vintage like “neoconservatism” and... More
The Times’s Ten-Step Program
Looking for the least-bad outcome in Afghanistan
By Greg Marx Oct 5, 2009 at 04:36 PM
The New York Times’s roundtable op-ed on Afghanistan yesterday doesn’t break any new ground, and it won’t carry the same... More
Picking Apart the Polls
Is opinion really shifting on abortion?
By Greg Marx Oct 2, 2009 at 03:27 PM
If you’re an avid news reader, there’s a good chance that sometime in the last day or so you’ve come... More
Baucus Watch, Part XVI
What we should have known all along
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
A Change That’s Hard to Believe In
Obama calls backsies on shield law
By Clint Hendler Oct 2, 2009 at 10:12 AM
There’s a reason why people don’t trust politicians’ promises: from time to time, they go back on them. That’s exactly... More
The Whole World in His Hands
Overstating the president’s power, again
By Greg Marx Oct 1, 2009 at 01:16 PM
As any middle-school social studies student knows, the American system of government consists of three branches: the executive branch, which... More
Journalism in the Heartland
A shout out to the Kansas City Star and the Salina (Kan.) Journal
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 30, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Good journalism doesn’t just grow on the right and left coasts. Two papers in America’s middle show that good reporting... More
An Open Debate on the Afghan War?
A measure of dissent on the full counterinsurgency doctrine
By Greg Marx Sep 30, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Expert opinion in the foreign policy think-tank world—your American Enterprise Institutes, your Councils on Foreign Relations, etc.—runs, on balance, hawkish.... More
Going for the Gold
Is Obama’s Olympic trip really a big political risk?
By Greg Marx Sep 29, 2009 at 02:43 PM
One of the persistent memes of American political journalism is that our president must always be testing his political power... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part V
The view from the Italian festival, Scranton, Pa.
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Everyone, it seems is trying to take the pulse of the electorate—Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
Baucus Watch, Part XV
What’s the senator hiding in his bill?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 27, 2009 at 03:19 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
A Dart to Health Affairs
Policy journal jumps in bed with Aetna
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 25, 2009 at 10:52 AM
In this day and age, when medical journals have come under fire for failing to disclose researchers’ conflicts of interest;... More
Baucus Watch, Part XIV
The senator confronts the affordability question
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2009 at 04:33 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... 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.
