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“I Am Not Reporting Anything to You”
How Fox News, CNN handled the initial Bin Laden news
By Liz Cox Barrett May 2, 2011 at 06:04 PM
In the event that you were not watching cable news last night, rest assured that Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera and... More
A Zombie Lie Is Born
CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Two days ago I fisked a false report from CNBC that said more than a third of all wages and... More
Anderson Cooper (finally) exits the closet [updated]
The CNN anchor announces he’s gay in a published email to Andrew Sullivan
By Peter Sterne Jul 2, 2012 at 01:44 PM
Anderson Cooper’s sexual orientation has been something of an open secret for some time. But Monday morning, he finally came... More
Audit Notes: Overdraft Ethics, CNN’s Wall Street Apologist, U.S. Gas Boom
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM
American Banker's Jeff Horwitz finds some emails that offer an interesting look into how banks make unethical decisions to gouge... More
CNN says women vote with their hormones
The Twitterverse goes mental
By Hazel Sheffield Oct 26, 2012 at 03:00 PM
It took seven hours of Internet backlash on Wednesday night for the Internet to convince CNN that an article it... More
CNN, Piers Morgan, and the Hacking Scandal
Questions raised about primetime anchor’s tenure as a tabloid editor
By Ryan Chittum Jul 22, 2011 at 02:00 AM
It would be rather ironic if Fox News enemy CNN turns out to have a hacking-scandal-by-association problem on its hands,... 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
Election Night Coverage Roundup
What was said on CNN, NPR, the BBC, the NYT, and elsewhere
By CJR Staff Nov 3, 2010 at 01:46 AM
CNN CNN clearly wants to wow viewers with the whiz-bang: the “data wall,” the “election matrix,” the “sentiment analysis” of... More
Fisching for attention
CNN didn’t need to give anti-gay activist Bryan Fischer airtime
By Sara Morrison Oct 16, 2012 at 05:30 PM
You'd think there would be little to criticize about Southern Poverty Law Center's "Mix It Up at Lunch Day" project,... More
Follow a 99er Through the Press As the Money Runs Out
The long jobs crisis, with no end in sight, should prompt us to revisit older stories
By Ryan Chittum Aug 1, 2011 at 01:32 PM
Now that it's certain that our leaders have gone all in on austerity, despite a 9.2 percent unemployment rate and... More
Haiti Coverage and “Disaster Porn”
Cholera epidemic offers convenient B-roll for nightly newscasts
By Maura R. O'Connor Nov 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Last month I was reporting a story on the opening of a mango warehouse in Haiti’s countryside when a fellow... More
Historic votes, hidden from live coverage
The four gay marriage votes in last week’s election were hard to follow in real-time
By Jennifer Vanasco Nov 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Do you know what was... More
How to Dodge Debate Dodges
CNN debate demanded one simple phrase
By Clint Hendler Jun 14, 2011 at 12:42 AM
Last night’s CNN debate drew the respect and attention that the first debate, hosted in early May by Fox News,... More
Is Oprah’s Boring-ness Contagious?
By Joel Meares Jan 18, 2011 at 01:36 PM
I caught the last ten minutes of CNN’s debut of Piers Morgan Tonight on Monday. Accordingly, I will refrain from... More
Medicare ‘bankruptcy’: CNN gets it right
The network fact-checks a frequent talking point, and does it well
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 11, 2012 at 07:10 AM
Hooray for CNN.com, for fact checking the often-heard claim of Medicare’s “impending” bankruptcy. CNN’s contribution sets a high bar, and... More
Mitt’s Great Escape
Press declares Romney winner of last night’s punchless fight
By Joel Meares Jun 14, 2011 at 02:11 PM
Last night’s GOP primary debate at Saint Anselm College began something like an episode of Jeopardy!, with the contestants/candidates... More
New Survey Says Fox Least Trusted
But there are more questions to be asked
By Joel Meares Jan 20, 2011 at 03:05 PM
Public Policy Polling yesterday released its annual study of people’s trust in TV news, and the results are sure to... More
News Corp.’s digital divergence
While print media converges on TV news
By Felix Salmon Jun 29, 2012 at 03:00 PM
There’s no secret why Rupert Murdoch is breaking News Corp into two pieces. Amy Chozick explains: News Corporation had evolved... More
On Haiti
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 11, 2011 at 04:19 PM
It was a year ago, tomorrow, that Haiti experienced a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the... More
Parker/Palin
By Joel Meares Nov 12, 2010 at 02:07 PM
Turns out Parker/Spitzer is still on the air. And, heck, the show is even making news thanks to former governor,... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
