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USA Today’s 30th birthday bash
The paper promises to reinvent the news businesses amid crab cakes and blue champagne
By Michael Meyer Sep 14, 2012 at 03:26 PM
Thursday night, the Gannett Company gathered employees, friends, and family at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, to celebrate... More
USA Today’s Ham-fisted Public Workers Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 1, 2011 at 05:47 PM
USA Today runs a poor story this morning that says its analysis finds that government workers make more in total... More
USA Today’s Mixed-Up Message
What exactly did the deficit commission do?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 6, 2010 at 01:09 PM
On Friday, USA Today reported that the president’s fiscal commission “approved a plan today to cut federal deficits by $3.9... More
A critical eye on the ‘skills gap’
The Free Press, Star Tribune, and USA Today ask questions
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's no shortage of uncritical reporting on the notion that employers, and particularly manufacturers, can't find enough qualified workers even... More
An eye on environmental justice
EHN series focuses on an under-covered angle on toxics
By Curtis Brainard Jun 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
A number of media reports in last year have examined the impacts of toxic pollution on communities, but few have... More
Audit Notes: Perk Up, Core Inflation, What Passes for News
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2011 at 07:49 PM
USA Today takes a long look at CEO perks, but it doesn't do a good job of prioritizing the really... More
Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall
Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme
By Ryan Chittum Nov 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The investigative journalist Roddy Boyd has some excellent reporting on a multilevel marketing company (read: pyramid scheme) called ViSalus: ViSalus... More
Context-free market reporting on a post-election dive
First-term bull market goes unmentioned after a November 7 stock dip
By Ryan Chittum Nov 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The stock market dive the day after President Obama was re-elected, dropping 320 points, or 2.4 percent. The Drudge Report,... More
Other Views of Social Security
The MSM gives some equal time
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Campaign Desk has been hard of late on some MSM outlets that have presented lopsided views of the Social Security... More
Some Helpful Guides to Election Night TV
What to read while you watch
By Joel Meares Nov 2, 2010 at 02:59 PM
My colleague Liz Cox Barrett previewed the big guns' plans for tonight’s coverage. But just what should you have in... More
The media’s ‘happily ever after’
Why are women like Jennifer Aniston portrayed as sad and lonely if they aren’t married?
By Jennifer Vanasco Aug 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Jennifer Aniston is one of... More
The most hated blogger in America
The secret to Chris Chase — and possibly USA Today’s — success
By Sara Morrison Dec 13, 2012 at 05:00 PM
USA Today senior sports blog editor Chris Chase's posts, covering the lighter side of sports culture, are typical fare; aggregated... 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.
