Full-Court Press
Above the Fold: Memos of (Mis)understanding
For the torture memos, too, sunlight is the best disinfectant
By Charles Kaiser Apr 17, 2009 at 06:58 PM
Barack Obama acted intelligently and courageously yesterday by making the Bush administration’s torture memos public, despite the strong objections of... More
Above the Fold: Beltway Journalism, “Swallowed by an Hourglass”
It’s long past time to expand the spectrum of Sunday-show punditry
By Charles Kaiser Apr 15, 2009 at 03:42 PM
The more things change, the more Beltway punditry stays the same. If only the voters could change the composition of... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Danner, Poniewozik, Rove, Vanity Fair, and more
By Charles Kaiser Apr 10, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Winner: Mark Danner, for another brilliant piece about torture in the New York Review of Books: “Torture is at the... More
Above the Fold: Our Financial Follies
Black and Born prove it yet again: we need to regulate the regulators
By Charles Kaiser Apr 10, 2009 at 04:33 PM
Last week, William Black, a former investigator of the Savings and Loan scandal, went on Bill Moyers Journal and repeated... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Vanity Fair, Ed Henry, and Colbert
By Charles Kaiser Apr 3, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Sinner: Vanity Fair, for running an article by Mark Bowden about Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. that was so filled with elementary... More
Above the Fold: Colin Powell, American Coward
The general continues to debunk the myth of his own greatness
By Charles Kaiser Apr 3, 2009 at 05:21 PM
At just about every crucial juncture in his career, Colin Powell has failed his country, and himself. This sorry record... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Goldberger, Cohen, Greenwald, Wolff, and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 24, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Winner: Paul Goldberger, for a beautiful meditation in The New Yorker on the baseball stadiums just completed for the New... More
Above the Fold: The Torture Report
Mark Danner rakes Guantánamo’s muck
By Charles Kaiser Mar 23, 2009 at 06:32 PM
When the history of this era is written more honor will be attached to Mark Danner than to most other... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Jon Stewart, Nathaniel Frank, David Gates and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 13, 2009 at 03:06 PM
The Biggest Winner: Let’s be clear: Jon Stewart is the best interviewer on television, because he is the toughest, the... More
Above the Fold: The Whole Truth About Torture
Is it “unfair” to single out Bush’s torture advisors for prosecution?
By Charles Kaiser Mar 10, 2009 at 06:35 PM
The story by Charlie Savage and Scott Shane on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times, about the “fallout... More
Above the Fold: Remembering John Leonard
Literary lions celebrate the legendary critic
By Charles Kaiser Mar 3, 2009 at 06:37 PM
Family members, former colleagues, important writers, and intimate friends gathered yesterday to praise the critic John Leonard for his “love... More
Above the Fold: The Best and Worst of Television
Kaiser on Kroft, Markopolos, Santelli, and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM
It took me five minutes to know that it was a fraud. It took me another almost four hours of... More
Above the Fold: Barack’s Bold Budget
“The most radical document of its kind since Reagan’s first year in office”
By Charles Kaiser Feb 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Barack Obama's budget proves he was serious when he promised fundamental change if he became president. Everyone in the MSM... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Delonas, Hertzberg, Rich, Moyers, and more
By Charles Kaiser Feb 19, 2009 at 01:51 PM
Sinner: Sean Delonas. The New York Post contributor drew a cartoon yesterday depicting two policemen shooting a chimpanzee, with this... More
Above the Fold: Cruel Intentions?
Savage’s stellar Times piece on Obama’s torture policy
By Charles Kaiser Feb 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Charlie Savage’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times about the Obama administration’s preliminary attitudes toward torture, rendition, and government secrecy... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
