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Arizona shootings
Accuracy and Crisis
Were early, erroneous reports of Giffords’s death preventable?
By The Editors Jan 11, 2011 at 01:00 PM
“Initial reporting on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona’s Eighth District, was riddled with the kind... More
Politics Begins at the First Shot
Initial errors aren’t the biggest problems in reporting on congresswoman’s attempted assassination
By Joel Meares Jan 9, 2011 at 04:14 PM
Mistakes in the first hours Initial reporting on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona’s Eighth District,... More
Q&A: Professor of Political Rhetoric Martin J. Medhurst
“Metaphorical violence permeates American political language and always has.”
By Joel Meares Jan 10, 2011 at 12:58 PM
The attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has sparked a debate about the nature of political rhetoric in the... More
Q&A: Randy Lovely, Editor and Vice President of The Arizona Republic
“To us, all the victims are equally important because they are residents of our state.”
By Joel Meares Jan 12, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Saturday’s shooting in Tucson was something of a marathon challenge for The Arizona Republic’s staff of 310. For starters, the... More
Room For Debate?
No connection to Giffords, but rhetoric debate still to be had
By Joel Meares Jan 11, 2011 at 02:17 PM
News and analysis continues to swell following the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Broadly: Giffords remains... More
Searching for Answers and Questions
The media on what motivated Jared Lee Loughner
By Joel Meares Jan 13, 2011 at 02:25 PM
Rhetoric didn’t pull the trigger in Tucson. That, most people have come to agree upon. So what did? That’s... 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?
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The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
