Darts and Laurels
A laurel to Denver’s Westword
Alt-weekly scours TV stations’ public files for details on political spending
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jun 29, 2012 at 03:59 PM
For months now, CJR has been urging the FCC to improve public access to the “public inspection files” maintained... More
A laurel to WaPo’s debunking of ‘EPA drones’
David Fahrenthold chronicles the “life cycle of a falsehood”
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Jun 20, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Starting today, we’ll be bringing a venerable CJR tradition, Darts & Laurels, to The Swing States Project. Each Wednesday,... More
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Not going the distance
By The Editors May 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Much ado… On March 21, The Orange County Register published a blog post, based on the sworn affidavit of... More
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So much hot air
By The Editors Mar 28, 2012 at 06:00 AM
In January, as earthlings awaited the largest solar radiation storm in seven years, news headlines had a Cowboys-and-Aliens feel:... More
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Univision, The Miami Herald, and Marco Rubio, the GOP’s rising star
By Erika Fry Jan 5, 2012 at 05:00 PM
In December 1987, federal police in Miami made their biggest drug bust of the year. Dubbed “Operation Cobra,” agents arrested... More
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Univision, The Miami Herald, and Marco Rubio, the GOP’s rising star
By Erika Fry Dec 16, 2011 at 03:47 PM
In July 2011, Univision, the nation’s leading Spanish-language network, reported that Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s brother-in-law, Orlando Cicilia, had been... More
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An exercise in humility: fifty years of journalism’s lesser angels
By Brent Cunningham Nov 2, 2011 at 09:00 AM
An accounting of fifty years’ worth of Darts is hardly a balm for an industry careening through a wrenching transition.... More
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Telling the whole story about Thailand
By Erika Fry Sep 22, 2011 at 06:00 AM
or much of his career, the British journalist Andrew MacGregor Marshall has covered Southeast Asia for Thomson Reuters. During that... More
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Meet Brian Condra, the media’s favorite “everyman”
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 27, 2011 at 06:00 AM
n late 2008, as the world financial system went into collapse, a shocking self-dealing scandal toppled the Anglo Irish Bank.... More
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The Oregonian and Village Voice Media help to de-sensationalize a story
By Lauren Kirchner May 26, 2011 at 01:00 AM
n early 2009, the FBI organized a nationwide sting operation to rescue victims of sex trafficking and arrest their pimps.... More
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The Portland Press Herald blurred an important line with its donation of ads during an election
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 29, 2011 at 09:00 AM
he importance of a daily newspaper’s role in local politics is undeniable. Ideally, it reports the issues impartially, then makes... More
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Laurels to a Texas Monthly reporter and an intrepid attorney who worked to free an innocent man
By Lauren Kirchner Jan 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM
hen Anthony Graves was arrested for capital murder, he thought it was a practical joke. A surveillance camera in the... More
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Reporters at two weeklies keep the memories of unknown murder victims alive
By Lauren Kirchner Nov 11, 2010 at 08:00 AM
n 2008, L.A. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek learned that the Los Angeles Police Department had recently dedicated a secret task... More
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A Lincoln Journal Star series digs through the paper’s archives and finds treasure
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 21, 2010 at 11:53 AM
n an effort to fill the Monday edition, traditionally a thin news day everywhere, city editor Peter Salter has tried... More
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The diamond thief’s tale sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was.
By Alexandra Fenwick Jul 27, 2010 at 08:00 AM
n Valentine’s Day weekend in 2003, a gang of Italian thieves, led by a man named Leonardo Notarbartolo, broke into... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
