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New York Has Clarity on the Ryan Budget
By Joel Meares Apr 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM
A quick thank you to Dan Amira of New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, who has published just the... More
A hat-tip to Investor’s Business Daily
A sharp blog post underscores the radical vision behind the Ryan budget
By David Cay Johnston Mar 15, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Yesterday, I praised The Washington Post's Wonkblog for its coverage of Rep. Paul Ryan's latest budget proposal. But revealing insights... More
Audit Notes: Cookbooks and News, Too Big to Fail, Paul Ryan
By Ryan Chittum Mar 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM
Ken Doctor has a good post for Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab on why news organizations need to be ramping up... More
Audit Notes: Hollywood Rolls, Ryan’s Loopholes, Regulation and Racing
By Ryan Chittum Mar 27, 2012 at 01:40 AM
Looking at this Wall Street Journal graphic, you'd think Hollywood has been on some kind of epic roll the last... More
Audit Notes: Paul Ryan’s Very Serious Budget, The London Whale
By Ryan Chittum Apr 6, 2012 at 06:14 PM
Paul Krugman hammers colleague David Brooks today, writing about unnamed commentators "pretending to be moderates or at any rate only... More
Boehner’s overlooked acknowledgment
The Speaker—and Paul Ryan—say we don’t have an immediate debt crisis. Isn’t that news?
By David Cay Johnston Mar 20, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Over the past weekend, there was actually some news made on the Sunday morning talk shows for a change. Two... More
CNBC Misleads on “Welfare State” Dominance
Bad math overstates government payouts
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
(UPDATE: See my follow-up post here: A Zombie Lie Is Born: CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide.) There... More
Hawkery—and Hackery—from Hiatt
Post column misleads on health care reform
By Greg Marx Jun 13, 2011 at 02:17 PM
In his latest column, which chides President Obama for choosing “easier politics over harder truths” when dealing with America’s fiscal... More
Honey, I shrank the IRS
The administration wants more money for tax-law enforcement. Let’s ask why
By David Cay Johnston Apr 30, 2013 at 02:52 PM
Last week, we pointed to a piece of news that we have yet to read or hear from most... More
Joe Lieberman and his Medicare Gift
The press needs to untie the bow—and quickly
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 11, 2011 at 01:00 PM
Leave it to Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman to speed along the process of making seniors on Medicare pay more for... More
Left, Right, and Center: A budget analysis roundup
A budget worth shellacking or perfect politics?
By Joel Meares Feb 15, 2011 at 02:03 PM
We’ve all had a day or so to chew over President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget—a $3.7 trillion plan that... More
Missed Correction: Times slow to fix H.I.V. budget error
By Joel Meares Apr 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Is the Times saving a budget correction for a rainy day? In a strongly worded editorial published in Wednesday’s paper,... 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
Pawlenty’s Economic Fantasy
A mixed showing from the press as the GOP contender sets out his plan
By Greg Marx Jun 9, 2011 at 02:24 PM
In his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has tried to cast himself as a... More
People aren’t too worried about the sequester. Is the media to blame?
Coverage is too often dull or absent, but NYT piece on air travel is a standout
By David Cay Johnston Feb 22, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Americans are not especially worried about the mandatory federal spending cuts set to begin March 1, widely cited polling by... More
Politico’s David Rogers Owning the Budget Beat
First stop in following the negotiations
By Joel Meares Apr 7, 2011 at 01:41 PM
Is there anyone doing as good a job tracking federal budget negotiations as Politico’s David Rogers? The man’s been a... More
Q&A: New York Times Reporter Jackie Calmes
“The Internet has changed how you report on the budget”
By Joel Meares Feb 16, 2011 at 04:12 PM
At 9:30 am last Monday, New York Times White House correspondent Jackie Calmes began poring through five fat volumes of... More
Ryan’s Whopper $4 Trillion
Where it will come from and what it might mean
By Joel Meares Apr 4, 2011 at 01:29 PM
House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) visited Fox News Sunday this weekend and confirmed last week’s reporting suggesting a... More
Some Clarity Amid Budget Proposal Confusion
Jon Ward breaks down the Obama and Ryan numbers
By Joel Meares Apr 5, 2011 at 01:19 PM
Paul Ryan’s budget proposal—described as “radical” by some and hailed by others as if fresh from the summit of... More
Take this fiscal pop quiz
Test your knowledge about federal spending—and federal-spending myths
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM
From Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, comes a pop quiz that's fun to take and tests... 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)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
