Darts and Laurels
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
A laurel to Politifact Florida
Site pushes back against misinformation about Obamacare and small business
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Our run of Swing States Project praise continues with a laurel to Politifact Florida, where reporters Tia Mitchell, Katie... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
