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NYT Gives a (Very Reluctant) Kudos to Al Jazeera
By Ron Howell Apr 13, 2012 at 08:42 AM
And the award for coverage of the Haitian cholera epidemic goes to . . . No, not The New York... More
A Broken Lede
The government isn’t “broke.” Reporters should stop saying it is.
By Greg Marx Jun 13, 2011 at 03:46 PM
The Associated Press has an important story today about the fairly horrifying condition of many state budgets. On its site,... 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
A good AP follow-up on North Carolina’s ‘sweepstakes’ story
In the face of crackdowns, an industry with deep pockets refuses to go away
By Greg Marx Mar 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In his post yesterday about what North Carolina reporters can learn from their South Carolina colleagues about covering the video... More
A Laurel to the AP
For its eye-opening story on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM
The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the... More
Amazon Bolts Texas’s “Unfavorable Regulatory Environment”
But there’s more to the story than we get from the AP and The Dallas Morning News
By Ryan Chittum Feb 11, 2011 at 02:07 PM
The Associated Press reports that Amazon is closing its Texas warehouse due to—and this is a direct Amazon quote—the state's... More
AP and Guild Reach Tentative Deal
Wait to see if workers agree on 401(k)-style pension plan
By Joel Meares Apr 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM
A little slow getting to this, but as of Friday the Associated Press and the News Media Guild, which represents... More
AP Gives Half a Loaf on Long-Term Care
More reporting needed from the wire service
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 25, 2011 at 01:18 PM
When the CLASS Act, a part of the health reform law that would have begun to establish a national program... More
AP phone records seizure reveals telecom’s risks for journalists
What is constitutionally protected, and what isn’t
By Susan McGregor May 15, 2013 at 04:20 PM
Many journalists may be shocked by Monday's revelation that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) used a subpoena to obtain... 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 turns to Twitter and restaurant receipts
Unconventional revenue strategies in the wake of new year’s member losses
By Sara Morrison Jan 11, 2013 at 07:54 PM
The AP rolled out two unconventional money-generating strategies this week: It sold advertising in its Twitter feed and cut a... More
AP’s pension probe misses the broad view
Good reporting is undermined by a lack of context
By Ryan Chittum Apr 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM
The Associated Press has a tough three-part investigation out this week looking at corruption in an old Washington state pension... More
Audit Notes: WSJ Calls Out AT&T; Goldman and Qaddafi; Banks Hit the Road
By Ryan Chittum May 31, 2011 at 11:45 PM
I wish more papers would do what The Wall Street Journal does today in its story about antitrust concerns over... More
Audit Notes: AP Spill, Reporting on Your Parent, Bloomberg Babies
By Ryan Chittum Apr 15, 2011 at 04:21 PM
This Associated Press story had me scratching my head. It says Citgo spilled 265,000 barrels of oil in the Delaware... More
Birthday Coverage for the Affordable Care Act
The two faces of health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 22, 2012 at 04:16 PM
The health reform law celebrates its two-year anniversary tomorrow. There are myriad ways to report on the Affordable Care Act... More
Detecting Fake Photos with Digital Forensics
A Q&A with Hany Farid on photo forensics
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM
As photography has gone digital, it has become ever easier to manipulate images with Photoshop and other technology. Digital photographs... More
Don’t Forget Massey Energy’s Long History of Violations
By Ryan Chittum Jan 21, 2011 at 08:54 PM
Federal investigators' preliminary report is out on the April coal mine explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners. Was it... More
Governor’s Inbox Puts Deputy Prosecutor Out (Updated)
Walker’s e-mails give Wisconsin watchdog a story
By Joel Meares Mar 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM
A young Indiana deputy prosecutor has resigned after an interesting journalistic project sprung from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s release of... More
How extreme is that legislator, really?
A new data set on lawmakers’ ideology can bolster reporting at the state level
By Brendan Nyhan May 23, 2013 at 07:25 AM
When Republican Scott Brown faced Democrat Martha Coakley in a January 2010 special election for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, he... More
LGBT coverage worth a shout-out
The mainstream media much improved its coverage in recent years
By Jennifer Vanasco Sep 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Every week in Minority Reports,... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
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CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
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Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
