Full-Court Press
Above the Fold: “The Thrill Is Gone”
Across the Atlantic, Washington’s myopia seems more exaggerated than usual
By Charles Kaiser Feb 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
LONDON-- From the other side of the Atlantic, Washington's myopia seems even more exaggerated than usual. Two days ago in... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Daschle, Newsweek, Philip Bennett, and more
By Charles Kaiser Feb 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Winners: Barack Obama, and the American people, for not getting Tom Daschle as their new Secretary of Health and Human... More
Above the Fold: This Land Is Our Land
Obama’s inauguration was a celebration forty years in the making
By Charles Kaiser Jan 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
“You sing it with us: we’ll give you the words.” –Pete Seeger, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2009 "The answer is... More
Above the Fold: More Tortured Logic
Dick Cheney, Susan Crawford, Jim Lehrer, and “moving forward”
By Charles Kaiser Jan 19, 2009 at 09:48 AM
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts....Actions are held to be good or... More
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?
Kaiser on Newsweek’s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover
By Charles Kaiser Jan 12, 2009 at 02:31 PM
With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their... More
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?
Kaiser on Newsweek’s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover
By Charles Kaiser Jan 12, 2009 at 09:50 AM
With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Barney Frank, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Benjamin Button, and others
By Charles Kaiser Jan 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Winners: Benoit Denizet-Lewis and Jeffrey Toobin. The second best political news for America after Barack Obama’s election as president is... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Lesley Stahl, Barney Frank, Ruth Marcus, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 23, 2008 at 05:47 PM
Sinner: When Lesley Stahl profiled House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank for 60 Minutes earlier this month, she seemed shocked... More
Above the Fold: Bailout Buyer’s Remorse
The endless ironies of the Republican opposition to saving Detroit
By Charles Kaiser Dec 15, 2008 at 05:32 PM
"On the executive compensation thing, it went to the core of their being. It was like asking the chief rabbi... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on BlagoGate, the NYT, NBC, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 11, 2008 at 06:30 AM
Here is everything U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said at his news conference Tuesday about any possible involvement Barack Obama might... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Maslin, Stewart, NBC, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 5, 2008 at 05:44 PM
Winner: Janet Maslin for her spot-on review of The Man Who Owns The News, in which she dissects Michael Wolff's... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Michelle Cottle, Hendrik Hertzberg, Jim Sleeper, and others
By Charles Kaiser Nov 25, 2008 at 09:06 AM
Sinner: Michelle Cottle, for wasting the first 2,515 words of a 3,253-word piece about Barney Frank in The New Republic... More
Above the Fold: Ross, Kiriakou, and Waterboarding
Charles Kaiser takes on ABC’s torture coverage
By Charles Kaiser Dec 17, 2007 at 10:41 AM
This article originally appeared on December 17, 2007, at radaronline.com. It is reposted here with the permission of the rightsholder,... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
