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Campaign Finance
LAT Surveys “Parallel, Opaque System of Political Giving”
If companies don’t disclose, nobody knows
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 26, 2011 at 11:20 AM
A tip of the hat to the Los Angeles Times for spending six months surveying the political spending disclosure practices... More
A Midsummer Donation Spike, With Context
Reports from recent campaign finance reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM
There is much that can not be found in publicly available federal campaign finance reports: the identities of all the... More
A Mining Disaster Follow-up Follows the Money
L.A. Times’s revealing report on inaction after the WV coal mine explosion
By Joel Meares May 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM
A belated laurel to the Los Angeles Times team of Kim Geiger, Tom Hamburger, and Doug Smith, of the paper’s... More
Bloomberg Digs on Secret Money
A report on unreported election spending
By Liz Cox Barrett May 24, 2011 at 10:54 AM
A tip of the hat to Bloomberg for a recent quadruple-bylined story on the growing role of outside spending—much of... More
Laurels to Politico and National Journal
For exposing the shady side of the campaign-industrial complex
By Greg Marx Oct 18, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Back in April, an excellent column by Walter Shapiro here at CJR urged reporters on the money-in-politics beat to... More
Occupy Wall Street, Democrats, and Campaign Finance
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2011 at 12:28 AM
This Politico story on Occupy Wall Street's influence on the Democrats' campaign donors is awfully interesting: After the Democratic Congressional... More
One Year After the Spill…
…BP campaign contributions no longer “toxic”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2011 at 09:49 AM
A year, more or less, is apparently how much time had to pass after the massive BP oil spill in... More
PAC Man
USAT, NYT on skirting federal campaign donation limits (creatively)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM
How do potential presidential candidates circumvent donation-limiting federal campaign laws? Let us count the ways. There’s the federal PAC way.... More
Pack of Gum, PAC of Candidate
WaPo on frequent political impulse spenders
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 2, 2011 at 03:25 PM
What “phenomenon” will the Washington Post’s T.W. Farnam find next within the rows and columns of politicians’ campaign finance reports?... More
Q & A: Election Law Expert Richard L. Hasen
How the press fared covering the post-Citizens United landscape, and stories to do now
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 21, 2011 at 12:32 PM
On the eve of the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election... More
The Journal on Congress’s Inside Dope for Investors
By Ryan Chittum Dec 22, 2011 at 05:07 PM
The Wall Street Journal continues to investigate the fuzzy intersection between Congress and insider trading, with a good page-one story... More
The Secret Money “Seduction”
Democrats get their Priorities in order for 2012
By Liz Cox Barrett May 11, 2011 at 03:41 PM
The Center for Responsive Politics recently published an analysis of the effects of last year's Citizens United Supreme Court decision... More
Unpacking Rory Reid’s 91 PACs Maneuver
How political reporter Jon Ralston got the story
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2011 at 11:30 AM
If this isn't illegal, it should be. This has been the "almost universal" reaction, says veteran Nevada political reporter Jon... 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)
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.
