Massing on Media
Why Fox is essential viewing
It’s a Republican barometer
By Michael Massing Sep 5, 2012 at 03:16 PM
The Republican convention brought more evidence of The New York Times’s soft spot for Fox News. On Friday, the paper... More
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Only in Limbaugh land could Martha Raddatz be a lefty
By Michael Massing Aug 22, 2012 at 03:23 PM
By this point, I thought there was nothing Rush Limbaugh could say that would surprise me, but he did with... More
The media’s Internet infatuation
Much of the coverage makes claims “that are grand, outlandish, and ultimately unverifiable”
By Michael Massing Aug 15, 2012 at 06:51 AM
The New York Times finds the Internet, and the business and culture surrounding it, endlessly fascinating. When Marissa Mayer was... More
Movie violence chic
The journalistic buy-in to Hollywood hype
By Michael Massing Jul 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In recent weeks, while watching baseball games, The Daily Show, and (I admit) some Seinfeld reruns, I saw what seemed... More
Thomas Friedman’s fantasy America
Not telling it like it is
By Michael Massing Jul 11, 2012 at 02:58 PM
Thomas Friedman was delighted by the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the healthcare law. And he was positively thrilled... More
The two David Carrs
A Times columnist rises to fame
By Michael Massing Jun 27, 2012 at 05:22 PM
Since joining The New York Times in 2002, David Carr has become America’s most visible and influential writer on the... More
Dumb and dumber
How far can CNN sink?
By Michael Massing Jun 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM
In April, CNN recorded its lowest monthly ratings in more than 10 years. In May, it recorded its lowest monthly... More
When watchdog meets lapdog
The Times’s kill list story should be followed up on the ground
By Michael Massing Jun 4, 2012 at 02:50 PM
The New York Times's report last week on the Obama administration's secret "kill list" of Al Qaeda suspects and the... More
Libya and the Arab Street
What do ordinary Arabs think? Let’s ask them
By Michael Massing Mar 25, 2011 at 01:17 PM
On Wednesday, I went to hear Ayman Mohyeldin, the Cairo correspondent for Al Jazeera English, speak at the office of... More
Is This the Best You Can Do, NBC?
Network news hits a new level
By Michael Massing Nov 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Whenever I’m home at 6:30, I try to watch the evening news. Not out of any genuine desire—I rarely learn... More
Black Hawk Up
David Ignatius’s Helicopter Journalism
By Michael Massing Oct 27, 2009 at 09:21 AM
What a delight it must be to be a columnist for a major American newspaper. When traveling to distant, war-torn... More
Howard Kurtz, Missing in Action
Fox vs. the White House: Where’s Howie?
By Michael Massing Oct 22, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Howard Kurtz scored a coup on his CNN show “Reliable Sources” two Sundays ago when White House communications director Anita... More
Iraq’s Missing Iraqis
A good book’s great flaw
By Michael Massing Oct 14, 2009 at 01:05 PM
David Finkel’s book The Good Soldiers, about the experiences of a US Army battalion during the surge in Iraq, is... More
The Most Misreported Country
And the winner is…
By Michael Massing Oct 7, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Which country is most routinely miscovered in the U.S. press? There are clearly many candidates, but for me one stands... More
Eyes Wide Shut on Iran
Familiar sources sing a tired song
By Michael Massing Sep 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Listening to the CBS Evening News on Friday, I was roused from the slumber that program so often induces by... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
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.
