http://www.cjr.org/ en Copyright 2010 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:18:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner did his best on ABC News’s “This Week” to shoot down Moody’s speculation that the U.S. government could lose its triple-A bond rating. Bloomberg follows with a detailed analysis of the long-term strength of the dollar (based on the handy Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Currency Indexes), and why the greenback retains its position as the... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_bloomberg_backs_th.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_bloomberg_backs_th.php The Audit Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:18:30 -0500 Sometimes, the systems news organizations have put in place to make news more social--admirable as those systems generally are in spirit--really, really don't work in practice. To wit, the Huffington Post's rather unfortunate treatment--WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?--of today's sad news: the death of Representative John Murtha. http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/john_murtha_dead_important_fun.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/john_murtha_dead_important_fun.php The Kicker Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:45:20 -0500 Lady Gaga and Elton John, two of the music world’s most self-referential and self-aware performers, sang a duet at the Grammy Awards in a setting that made many references to Hollywood, fame, and each other. “It was a typically meta statement by Lady Gaga about her travails through the machinery of ‘the fame factory,’ as the stage set proclaimed,” one... http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/meta_data.php http://www.cjr.org/language_corner/meta_data.php Language Corner Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:43:47 -0500 ABOUT THE SERIES Welcome to The Investigators, an ongoing Web video series produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting highlighting incisive work—as it happens—by journalists around the world. The series features interviews with journalists, who share the stories behind their international investigations into human rights abuses, financial corruption, political malfeasance, environmental destruction, and other abuses of power. Often... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/behind_the_veil.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/behind_the_veil.php Behind the News Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:42:48 -0500 Last week, one Washington insider asked a Washington journalist why she had not written that health reform was dead. The journalist replied that she couldn’t do that until someone in power said so. Then she would have her story—with, of course, the headline declaring once and for all that health reform was dead or alive. Her comment is hardly surprising.... http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/is_health_reform_dead_or_alive.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/is_health_reform_dead_or_alive.php Campaign Desk Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:01:01 -0500 http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/post_27.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/post_27.php The Audit Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:56:23 -0500 Earlier this week, Max Blumenthal, a journalist who has written for The Nation and other outlets, wrote a piece for Salon detailing James O’Keefe’s history with issues of race. For an article that will appear in CJR next week, Greg Marx examined Blumenthal’s allegation that O'Keefe, along with another man, planned a 2006 event at which white nationalist... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/isis_oh_isis.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/isis_oh_isis.php The Kicker Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:32:15 -0500 --David Wessel, the WSJ's economics editor, displayed admirable candor to a roomful of his financial press colleagues, I thought, in talking about the press's performance before the crash. "I can't find one check on the financial system that succeeded," said David Wessel, the economics editor of The Wall Street Journal. Not the rating agencies, not the vaunted risk... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_wessel_on_press_fa.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_notes_wessel_on_press_fa.php The Audit Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:28:24 -0500 http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/okeefe_etc.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/okeefe_etc.php Campaign Desk Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:56:37 -0500 CAMBRIDGE—Like doctors gathered around the operating table in mid-surgery, a group of media experts at Harvard yesterday offered their diagnoses of the ailing body of journalism. The symptom: a surprising decline in public belief that climate change is real or important. Around the time that Barack Obama was elected president, Americans’ support for addressing global warming and energy issues was... http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/waves_in_a_shallow_pan.php http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/waves_in_a_shallow_pan.php The Observatory Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:59:47 -0500 If another reminder is needed that we should all pay more attention to the bond market, the Greek debt crisis provides one. It's not like we really want to learn the ins-and-outs of the fixed-income business; just like we're not all that inclined to study the melting temperatures of Arctic sea ice or the design of Toyota's... http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/bond_market_blowups.php http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/bond_market_blowups.php The Audit Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:21:47 -0500 Over the last two weeks, reporters covering campaign finance have ably chronicled the scope and effects of the bitterly divided Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. They’ve filed stories reporting that decades, perhaps a century, of regulations governing campaign finance have been rolled back, and that corporations would now be entitled to spend unlimited amounts of... http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_press_after_citizens_unite.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_press_after_citizens_unite.php Campaign Desk Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:21:41 -0500 Dr. Aaron Sell, a researcher at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, has been hearing from a lot of old friends and colleagues over the past couple of weeks—and he’s not happy about it. The calls and e-mails are flowing in thanks to a January 17 article published in London’s Sunday Times that prominently featured... http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/dumb_blonde_story.php http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/dumb_blonde_story.php The Observatory Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:59:55 -0500 Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s been tons of talk from politicians, advocates, and even health-care stakeholders about the need to reduce the nation’s rate of spending on medical treatment and keep a lid on price increases. Yet many policy experts say that the “acceptable” cost-containment... http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_cost_of_living.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_cost_of_living.php Campaign Desk Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:41:19 -0500 A USA Today investigation which found that the air outside thousands of schools across the country could be at least twice as toxic as the air in nearby neighborhoods—and sometimes ten times higher—has won the 2009 John B. Oakes Award for excellence in environmental journalism. The special report, “The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and... http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/usa_today_wins_oakes_award.php http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/usa_today_wins_oakes_award.php The Observatory Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:00:00 -0500