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L.A. Times Breaks Schwarzenegger Love Child Story
As restrained a sex-scandal story as you’re likely to get
By Joel Meares May 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM
A busy two weeks for political sex scandals, first with John Ensign, then Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and now… Arnie. The... More
Database Shows L.A. its “Worst Legislator”
But is it fair? And is it news?
By Joel Meares Nov 12, 2010 at 03:39 PM
San Jose Mercury News social services reporter Karen de Sa earned accolades this July for an investigative series which revealed... More
How The West Was Lost
California Watch Rummages Through Whitman’s Purse
By Joel Meares Nov 5, 2010 at 01:30 PM
Much has been written this election cycle about all the self-funded business-background candidates who stepped into the campaign fray, checkbooks... More
I Have No Strings
Nicky Diaz back in the news, with her backers
By Joel Meares Nov 19, 2010 at 01:34 PM
You’ll recall straw-that-broke-the-CEO’s-back Nicky Diaz Santillan, the former housekeeper to California’s unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. Diaz Santillan made well-orchestrated... More
Keeping up with the bullet train
An immensely ambitious project requires hugely creative coverage. California had it, for a while. Time to try again?
By John Mecklin Apr 18, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Californians might be forgiven for being puzzled about the merits of their state's ambitious high-speed rail program. The sprawling,... More
Quaking in California
Articles about the “big one” short on science
By Curtis Brainard Mar 22, 2011 at 02:15 PM
The 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 not only sent a tsunami barreling across the Pacific, but also... More
Rate Regulation Blow-up in California
WellPoint and co. win again
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM
The big news in health reform last week was the insurance industry’s victory in the California legislature, which scotched any... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
