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Astroturf
WSJ Gives Minimum Info on Front Group
An astroturf group gets a hit on the minimum wage
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Here's how The Wall Street Journal framed its report yesterday on several states raising the minimum wage next year: Small... More
Manufactured quotes
News organizations fail to disclose “regular Joe” businessmen’s lobbying ties
By Ryan Chittum Jul 10, 2012 at 06:06 PM
Two weeks ago The New York Times wheeled out that old chestnut of Great Recession-era economic reporting: Companies can't find... More
More on NPR and manufactured quotes
Why lobbyist-provided rent-a-quotes subvert the news
By Ryan Chittum Jul 18, 2012 at 04:38 PM
NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos (who teaches here at Columbia) takes a look at the network's poor showing with manufacturing sources... 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
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
