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WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing,... More
Big Companies and Jobs, Then and Now
By Ryan Chittum Apr 21, 2011 at 10:46 PM
New York's Andre Tartar has a intriguing post on the biggest American corporations and how much their employment levels have... More
Debunking the ‘war on coal,’ take two
The AP gets it right the second time around
By Curtis Brainard Oct 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Such was The Associated Press’s approach this month to explaining the... More
Flack-Driven Local Coverage of a Factory Closure Fails
Fort Smith’s Southwest Times Record blows it on a huge loss to the community
By Ryan Chittum Oct 28, 2011 at 06:33 PM
Whirpool is laying off more than a thousand employees in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and shipping the work to Mexico and... More
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
Ohio’s Lost Decade
Dayton paper shines light on a devastating job and income losses.
By Dean Starkman Apr 25, 2011 at 05:52 PM
Look what's happened to payrolls in Montgomery County, Ohio, in the last decade: Annual private payrolls dropped about $3... More
The word on the street: frustrated
Listening to voters at a Pennsylvania Walmart
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Last week a NBC News/Marist poll showed President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a tight race in Florida and... 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 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”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
