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A 60 Percent Osama Bump?
New approval rating raises a flap
By Joel Meares May 11, 2011 at 03:54 PM
An interesting debate about polling samples is underway this afternoon in the wake of a very encouraging new set of... More
A Frustrating AP Series on Nuclear Safety
The industry’s blunder-buss response doesn’t help; public left confused
By Irene M. Wielawski Sep 28, 2011 at 01:40 AM
Editor's note: This is an installment of our Audit Arbiter series, which looks into complaints about business news stories.... More
AP Staffers Picket Bureaus Across The Country (UPDATED)
Frustrations on the rise over pension impasse
By Joel Meares Apr 13, 2011 at 08:09 AM
AP staffers in thirty-nine bureaus across the country picketed outside their bureau offices early this week, pressuring the news wire... More
AP’s first usage guidelines on ‘husband, wife’
The new entry comes in response to anger over a memo to avoid the words to describe gay couples
By Jennifer Vanasco Feb 21, 2013 at 01:00 PM
Last week, Jim Romenesko published an internal memo from the Associated Press about how to refer to gay and lesbian... More
Behind AP’s new ‘husband, wife’ guideline
It’s an attempt to fix a perceived slight to married gay couples
By Jennifer Vanasco Feb 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Associated Press did the right thing on Thursday. After a week in which gay reporters, LGBT blogs, gay advocacy... More
Covering the ‘ex-gay’ movement
An influential organization changed its stance on reparative therapy. What will this mean for media coverage?
By Jennifer Vanasco Jul 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her new column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Recently Alan Chambers, president... More
Don’t assume AP intern’s cause of death
Armando Montaño died in Mexico, a country notoriously dangerous to journalists. But we don’t know yet if his death was work-related
By Sara Morrison Jul 2, 2012 at 05:22 PM
The death of Armando Montaño, a 22-year-old Associated Press intern in Mexico City, is a tragic loss to the world... More
Enterprise Reporting at the AP
The retirement age debate finally reaches the public
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 23, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Kudos to the AP for obtaining a report from the government’s watchdog agency, the General Accountability Office (GAO), showing that... More
In Style
AP makes more changes
By Merrill Perlman Mar 21, 2011 at 01:28 PM
Last Monday, you could have written an “e-mail” to your friend in “Calcutta,” checked for a response on your “smart... More
Instagram on the trail
More media are experimenting with use of the app as a news tool
By Hazel Sheffield Sep 4, 2012 at 12:27 AM
When AP staff photographer Evan Vucci downloaded Instagram, a photo-sharing app, on his iPhone before the Iowa caucus in January,... More
Meet the Iowa Press
Local reporters in demand at caucus time
By Joel Meares Feb 10, 2011 at 05:24 PM
A New York political reporter once asked me during an interview: “Who’s that guy who gets his ring kissed... More
No more ‘illegal immigrants’ in AP stories
The AP hopes the change will lead to more accurate immigration coverage
By Peter Sterne Apr 3, 2013 at 01:50 PM
On Tuesday, the AP announced that it will no longer use the term "illegal immigrant." In a blog post, Kathleen... More
On Ryan budget plan, Wonkblog shines
WashPost’s crew stands above a generally middling performance by the press
By David Cay Johnston Mar 14, 2013 at 11:24 AM
On Tuesday, GOP Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, unveiled his umpteenth budget plan of the last... More
Pity the nutgraf
The AP’s argument that ledes are the heart of its stories helped win a copyright case
By Sarah Laskow Mar 28, 2013 at 02:50 PM
When a reporter writes a story, what is the heart of the work? Is it this paragraph--the lede? This isn't... More
Post Newtown, AP adds ‘mental illness’ entry
Guidelines warn against conflating mental illness and violence
By Kira Goldenberg Mar 7, 2013 at 03:22 PM
After Adam Lanza killed 20 children on December 14, a host of subsequent coverage of the Newtown, CT, massacre focused... More
The AP’s (digital) news standards
The outlet verifies and sources all social media-based information
By Kira Goldenberg Feb 20, 2013 at 03:48 PM
On Tuesday night, at the Associated Press headquarters on far West 33rd Street, Muck Rack and the AP hosted a... More
Tidbits in the news
Quick takes on social minorities in the recent news cycle
By Jennifer Vanasco Apr 5, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It seems like every day in the news cycle there is a fascinating tidbit I'd like to cover in Minority... More
To avoid sexism, follow AP style
The New York Times would have dodged a headache in its Yvonne Brill obituary
By Jessica Seigel Apr 3, 2013 at 05:15 PM
If the New York Times journalists behind the much-criticized obituary--that originally led with pioneering scientist Yvonne Brill's fab "beef stroganoff"... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
