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Romney’s ‘job killer’ narrative: time for an X-ray
Some reporters are asking: Does Obamacare really destroy jobs?
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ONNtv.com, which bills itself as Ohio’s channel for news, is one of the latest media outlets to casually pass along... More
“Obama Osama bin Laden Is Dead”
The Osama/Obama error is an international phenomenon
By Craig Silverman May 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Of all the mistaken headlines, verbal gaffes, and erroneous tweets that resulted from the Sunday announcement that Osama Bin Laden... More
“Bill, I know football.”
O’Reilly and Obama in the Fox Bowl
By Joel Meares Feb 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM
So, it turns out Bill O’Reilly and the president give a better pregame show than Christina Aguilera. In the fifteen-minute... More
Times’s Solid Report on Failed Mortgage Rescue Programs
An economic calamity and its human faces
By Joel Meares Mar 30, 2011 at 12:29 PM
A must-read A1 story in The New York Times today digs into the multi-level failings of President Obama’s foreclosure rescue... More
WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity
A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2011 at 02:39 PM
You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of... More
A Photo of History Being Made (Up)?
Spot the presidential address reenactment photo!
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2011 at 06:07 PM
One of the images below is of President Obama delivering his historic "justice has been done" address live to the... More
An election post-mortem on Medicare coverage
Coverage? Yes. Guidance? Not so much
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 15, 2012 at 01:12 PM
In mid-August, when Paul Ryan burst on the scene with his voucher scheme for Medicare, the 47-year old program suddenly... More
And that’s the way it was: February 22, 1924
Calvin Coolidge broadcasts the first presidential radio address to the American public
By The Editors Feb 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
If Barack Obama is our first social-media president, then Calvin Coolidge rightly deserves to be called the first wireless-telegraphy president.... More
Ask Obama and Romney this: Where is Africa?
An enormous opportunity for the US could slip past
By Howard W. French Oct 23, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Ask Obama This: Can you imagine criminal justice reform?
A nearly forgotten topic that impacts the budget, families, and communities
By Farai Chideya Oct 24, 2012 at 03:12 PM
Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is publishing a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Ask Romney This: What will replace Obamacare?
A vague healthcare plan raises many questions
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 2, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Over the final weeks of the campaign, CJR has been publishing a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama... More
Attack of the Drones
Finding the real meaning in Obama’s Afghanistan speech
By Greg Marx Jun 23, 2011 at 02:36 PM
In the wake of President Obama’s big speech on Afghanistan last night, the basic points of his message—a reversal of... More
Audit Notes: Noonan forgets the stimulus, native ads, Mary Jo White
The WSJ columnist says Obama should have done things he actually did
By Ryan Chittum Mar 11, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's hard to pick the worst sentence in Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column this weekend, so let me just... More
Can the media avoid inaugural over-hype?
A little over-emoting is inevitable, but there are some cliches we can do without
By Walter Shapiro Jan 18, 2013 at 03:10 PM
After Bill Clinton took the oath of office for the second time in 1997, a USA Today columnist burbled, "Clinton's... More
Candidates clam up on climate
Reporters call out Obama and Romney’s silence
By Curtis Brainard Aug 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Nary a word has been spoken about climate change on the presidential campaign trail, and it’s a silence that some... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska
Obama’s disconnect with the voters
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM
In a recent column for The Washington Post, Richard Cohen recounted how FDR cried when he learned that children living... More
Climate policy, act two
Reactions to Obama’s second inaugural overlook Skocpol report
By Curtis Brainard Jan 23, 2013 at 11:30 AM
It was great to see The New York Times give front-page treatment to the unexpected weight that President Obama put... More
Conventions create climate coverage
While ScienceDebate.org gets some answers
By Curtis Brainard Sep 5, 2012 at 06:00 PM
The presidential candidates are still treating it like a back-burner issue, but the Republican and Democratic national conventions incited a... More
Digital innovation on election night: a report
From CJR and Tow Center’s “meta newsroom”
By Mike Hoyt Nov 7, 2012 at 03:16 PM
About as digital as most Americans get on election night is to operate the channel clicker. But that is steadily... More
Factchecking the ‘gifts’ theory of politics
LAT, NYT break news on Mitt Romney’s remarks—and also offer a skeptical look
By Greg Marx Nov 15, 2012 at 03:10 PM
The big electoral politics story of the day (well, ok, of late Wednesday) is the news that Mitt Romney, on... 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”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
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.












