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A Plea for the Polls
‘The press seems to behave as if it were operating in a simpler yesterday’
By Elmo Roper Nov 8, 2011 at 05:54 PM
Elmo Roper was one of the early giants of American opinion polling. His survey work for Fortune magazine, beginning in... More
Bloomberg Versus Reuters on Obama Polls
By Ryan Chittum Sep 14, 2011 at 05:15 PM
Correlation is not causation. That's a hard lesson to internalize for the press, which insists on slapping a narrative on... More
Confidence In TV News and Newspapers (Slightly) Up
What’s Weiner got to do with it?
By Joel Meares Jun 28, 2011 at 01:11 PM
Some heartening news for those in the newspaper and TV News industries. Gallup’s annual poll of the public’s confidence... More
Q&A: Poli-Sci Blogger John Sides
The GWU professor on what we can—and can’t—learn from early polling
By Greg Marx May 19, 2011 at 04:03 PM
The 2012 election is almost eighteen months away, but politics junkies are already being treated to polls asking if people... More
The Problem with Covering Polls
Daily Caller mistakes opinion for fact
By Ben Adler Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Thursday afternoon, Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson tweeted the link to a story on his website, saying "and the poor... More
Wealthy Bloomberg Subscribers Call for Higher Taxes
By Ryan Chittum Jan 26, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Bloomberg News had a good idea for a poll: Ask 1,200 of its $20,000-a-year subscribers whether the carried-interest tax break,... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
