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Ask Obama This: Will we have to be older to get Medicare?
We know about Romney’s vouchers, but the president is quiet on the subject of raising eligibility
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Audit Notes: China slows, Romney’s taxes, copyright
Inventories pile up, posing another threat to the global economy
By Ryan Chittum Aug 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The New York Times looks at a glut of goods clogging up Chinese warehouses—an ominous sign for the global economy:... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s Ryan taxes, FDR or Ayn Rand, Morton Mintz
The Atlantic on what would be Mitt’s “Path to Prosperity”
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 01:56 AM
The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien has the best snap financial analysis of Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as a running... More
False balance and the Medicare scare
Who’s been telling the truth in Florida?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 26, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Last Thursday the president made a campaign stop in Florida, and—surprise, surprise—he talked about Medicare. Or at least he talked... More
False balance on Romney’s bogus welfare reform attack
He said-she said from the FT, and a weak showing from the WSJ
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 03:00 PM
This Financial Times coverage of Mitt Romney's false attack on an Obama administration move on welfare reform is a classic... More
Listen: CJR staffer on Politico and media criticism
“I understand why a[n] … outlet like Politico would focus primarily on the political implications, but I don’t think that represents real media criticism”
By Kira Goldenberg Jun 12, 2012 at 04:59 PM
In his very first piece for CJR last week, intern Peter Sterne criticized Politico’s story that alleged a pro-Obama bias... More
Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer
Here’s context to clarify the big entitlements debates
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 15, 2012 at 03:25 PM
Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee elevates Medicare and Medicaid (along with Social... More
No debate about environment
Hopes for questions about climate, public lands fall flat
By Curtis Brainard Oct 4, 2012 at 04:00 PM
The presidential candidates didn’t talk about the environment during their first debate on Wednesday. Nobody really expected them to; they... More
Politico goes for ‘fair and balanced’
And it succeeds, in the Fox News sense
By Peter Sterne Jun 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Last week, Politico rocked the insidery world of political journalism with an article, written by executive editor Jim VandeHei and... More
Romney likes Israeli healthcare
And the press takes a look at what it is. Whoa!
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Thanks to Mitt Romney’s laudatory remarks about the Israeli health system during his trip to Israel, we now know a... More
The Disingenuous WSJ Opinion Pages
Bogus arguments from Phil Gramm, Glenn Hubbard, and Peggy Noonan
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Phil Gramm and Columbia B-school Dean and Romney economic adviser Glenn Hubbard take to the op-ed pages of The Wall... More
The word on the street: frustrated
Listening to voters at a Pennsylvania Walmart
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Last week a NBC News/Marist poll showed President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a tight race in Florida and... More
The word on the street: insecure
Listening to voters in Omaha’s Old Market
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 12, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Last week I found myself in Omaha, at the city’s Old Market, hoping to visit with some of the locals... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
