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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
“Are You a Flake?”
Wallace’s bad question an announcement-day gift for Bachmann
By Joel Meares Jun 27, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Michele Bachmann officially launched her campaign today in Waterloo, Iowa, the onetime hometown from which—according to a speech Bachmann... More
“Bill, I know football.”
O’Reilly and Obama in the Fox Bowl
By Joel Meares Feb 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM
So, it turns out Bill O’Reilly and the president give a better pregame show than Christina Aguilera. In the fifteen-minute... More
NYT’s Scoop on an Alleged Roger Ailes Coverup
Lawyers say the Fox chief urged Judith Regan to lie to the feds about Giuliani pal Bernie Kerik
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2011 at 02:44 PM
The New York Times has an excellent scoop out today that could mean trouble for Fox News's Roger Ailes. It's... More
And We’re Off!
First debate low on candidates, substance, & attention
By Clint Hendler May 6, 2011 at 12:35 PM
The first debate of the 2012 presidential season took place last night in Greenville, South Carolina. If you missed it,... More
Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2012 at 01:29 AM
Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W.... More
Audit Notes: Fox on the Overpaid, Winkler Smiles, FT Ads
By Ryan Chittum Mar 4, 2011 at 06:33 PM
The Fox News propaganda machine has been ramped up to portray $700 a week teachers and other government employees as... More
Audit Notes: The Murdochs at Parliament, In the Journal, and Via Fox News
By Ryan Chittum Jul 20, 2011 at 12:50 AM
How sweet would it have been if The Guardian's Nick Davies had been on the committee questioning Rupert and James... More
CNBC Pushes the Financial-Terrorism Nonsense
“Really good information” on why “outside forces may have” caused the 2008 Crash
By Ryan Chittum Mar 3, 2011 at 01:02 PM
I took the hammer to The Washington Times the other day for a dumb story on a report that says... 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
Frank Luntz Rides Again
The wordsmith and the public option
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 10, 2010 at 07:42 AM
Word came Thursday that, last year, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon had directed his staff to avoid using... More
Glenn Beck Going Back to Silversmithing?
Beck explains why he’s jumping off the horse
By Joel Meares Apr 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM
First: a confession. I have not been a particularly diligent media reporter where Glenn Beck is concerned. In fact,... More
Jon Stewart On Fox’s Reverse Class Warfare
Meantime, the Journal notes leading GOP candidates want to raise taxes… on the poor
By Ryan Chittum Aug 19, 2011 at 03:48 PM
Yesterday, The Daily Show had one of Jon Stewart's greatest takedowns of Fox News—which is saying something. The jumping-off point... More
Mitt Romney and the Lucky Duckies
A gaffe created in the Fox News/WSJ editorial page echo chamber
By Ryan Chittum Sep 18, 2012 at 03:28 PM
Who are the 47 percent, why were Mitt Romney's comments on them so wrong, and how did Romney come to... More
Murdoch vs. Muto
The “Fox News mole” is being charged for leaking to Gawker as Fox’s corporate parent remains under fire for ethics violations
By Kira Goldenberg Apr 25, 2012 at 03:53 PM
Let me get this straight: Even as Rupert Murdoch’s media empire remains under official scrutiny for an allegedly extensive phone-hacking... 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
Pew’s Spin Through the Online Midterm News Cycle
Survey shows where we got our 2010 campaign news
By Joel Meares Mar 17, 2011 at 02:08 PM
Reading through comment streams during last year’s midterms, one often had to ask: Where are people getting their “information”... More
Play With The 2010 News Cycle Thanks To Pew
How did Fox, NBC, NPR fill the year’s “newshole”?
By Joel Meares Jan 14, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Forgive us for not noting this sooner—our attention has been devoted to the Giffords shooting and debates that followed. But... More
Roger Ailes in a Strange Light
Esquire’s big, perplexing profile
By Joel Meares Jan 18, 2011 at 03:42 PM
Esquire’s Roger Ailes profile, available online today, is a strange and fascinating read—a kind of nuanced, satirical “F-you” to a... 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.
