Darts and Laurels
A dart to Yahoo Finance
For utterly confusing its readers about Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM
By now we’re accustomed to weak reporting about Social Security, but a piece on Yahoo Finance, part of its... More
Darts and Laurels
Women’s work
By Sara Morrison Nov 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM
When The New York Times made Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan its new public editor in September, there seemed... More
The Ad Wars: a laurel to the Sunlight Foundation
Report brings scrutiny to new political ad database
By Sasha Chavkin Oct 26, 2012 at 01:40 PM
In an important victory for transparency advocates, the Federal Communications Commission recently began requiring broadcasters to post the files... More
Darts and Laurels
That’s sick
By Hazel Sheffield Oct 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
The Daily Caller drew some odd conclusions from a June survey of physicians, when it published a report with... More
Medicare costs: Are electronic records the solution—or the problem?
A Laurel to the Center for Public Integrity for an expose on “upcoding”
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Electronic billing has been promoted as a big cost savings for healthcare. But is it? The Center for Public... More
How the phantom of ‘socialized medicine’ came to be
A Laurel to The New Yorker for exploring the roots of modern political consulting
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Jill Lepore deserves a Laurel for her engrossing tale of how political communications came to be so toxic. In... More
A laurel to The Denver Post
For strong editorial judgment in its coverage of the “47 percent” story
By Greg Marx Sep 20, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The secret video recording of Mitt Romney’s now-infamous “47 percent” comment went live on the Mother Jones website at... More
A laurel to FlackCheck.org
For its new guide to video factchecking on air and online
By Greg Marx Sep 14, 2012 at 05:50 PM
The recent journalistic debate about factchecking has prompted some compelling discussion about different strategies, different methods, and what works... More
LGBT coverage worth a shout-out
The mainstream media much improved its coverage in recent years
By Jennifer Vanasco Sep 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Every week in Minority Reports,... More
A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times
She begins to X-ray the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 04:04 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times for reporting the increasing skepticism in health... More
A laurel to The Atlantic’s Garance Franke-Ruta
For calling on reporters to repeat the truth as often as needed, and showing how to do it
By Greg Marx Aug 17, 2012 at 03:43 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Garance Franke-Ruta of The Atlantic, whose astute web piece “What to Do With Political... More
Dart to HuffPo for ‘awesome scoop’
For enabling Harry Reid’s game of telephone sourcing on Romney’s taxes
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Aug 1, 2012 at 05:15 PM
Yesterday, The New York Times published an op-ed by Columbia tax law professor Michael J. Graetz, exploring, as the... More
Laurels to the Las Vegas Sun and News & Record
For a strong ad factcheck, and for grappling with campaigns’ message control
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 27, 2012 at 03:10 PM
Jay Jones has already heaped praise this week upon the Las Vegas Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, but we’ll go ahead... More
A dart to the campaign press corps
…for acquiescing to that whole “quote approval” thing
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 19, 2012 at 06:18 AM
It’s a diffuse target, but the campaign press corps writ large earns a dart this week for acquiescing to... More
Laurels for The New York Times and The Plain Dealer
Amid some Dart-worthy coverage, a few stories stand out
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 11, 2012 at 03:20 PM
Brendan Nyhan’s post earlier this week about the lackluster coverage of President Obama’s “outsourcing” attack on Mitt Romney threw... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
