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Framing the Jobs Plan… Er, Second Stimulus
This time Democrats get that language matters, and the press plays along
By Ryan Chittum Sep 15, 2011 at 12:39 AM
Barack Obama proposed his second stimulus last week, pitching a $450 billion measure. Or is it a jobs plan? Let's... More
Goodbye Mr. Gibbs
CJR’s writings on the outgoing press secretary
By Joel Meares Jan 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Press secretary Robert Gibbs announced yesterday that he would be stepping down from his position in February. The timing... More
Occupy Wall Street, Democrats, and Campaign Finance
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2011 at 12:28 AM
This Politico story on Occupy Wall Street's influence on the Democrats' campaign donors is awfully interesting: After the Democratic Congressional... 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
The WSJ Overreaches On Wisconsin Democrats Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2011 at 02:24 PM
The Wall Street Journal went A1 with a big scoop this morning that "Democrats to End Union Standoff" in Wisconsin.... More
The Bloodying of PolitiFact
What is Medicare, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 6, 2012 at 01:48 PM
Now it’s my turn to weigh in on the “Lie of the Year,” the gimmick PolitiFact uses to highlight the... More
The Government’s Shutting Down (Maybe)
But what does that mean?
By Joel Meares Mar 28, 2011 at 02:24 PM
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the White House and Democrats in Congress have come up with about... More
The Presidential Energy Narrative
Campaign coverage takes on a green hue
By Curtis Brainard Jan 27, 2012 at 05:30 PM
In the last week, President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, focused his first campaign ad on clean energy,... More
Would the GOP turn away from the uninsured?
NPR identifies the party’s new thinking
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM
NPR’s Julie Rovner deserves a shout-out for identifying what may be the GOP’s new thinking about healthcare—abandon the goal of... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
