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‘47 percent’ story wins a Polk Award
Mother Jones earns a political reporting prize
By Hazel Sheffield Feb 18, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Mother Jones is one of the winners at this year's George Polk Awards, Long Island University announced Monday. Mother Jones... More
Audit Notes: Glass-Steagall II, beyond paywalls, warehouse work
The FT comes out in favor of hiving off investment banks
By Ryan Chittum Jul 3, 2012 at 08:04 PM
This is important: The Financial Times editorial page comes out in favor of a Glass-Steagall II that would once again... More
Audit Notes: JPMorgan’s Whale, rent-a-quotes, shark videos
By Ryan Chittum Jul 13, 2012 at 03:00 PM
This New York Times story on JPMorgan's regulators is not well edited, but it has some interesting reporting: At one... More
Audit Notes: Mortgage Servicers, Ghost Mall—China Style; The Joneses
By Ryan Chittum Jan 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Andy Kroll of Mother Jones takes a look (UPDATE: took a look, I should say. This story is from a... More
Audit Notes: Radicalized, Nonprofit Newt, Murdoch’s Wedding Singer
By Ryan Chittum Nov 28, 2011 at 07:56 PM
Kevin Drum riffs off Bloomberg Markets story on banks' bailout profits to write about how the response to the crash... More
Audit Notes: The Milken Memory Hole, The Ax Murder and the NotW, Yahoo
By Ryan Chittum Aug 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM
Mother Jones's Nick Baumann catches the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press in some poor journalism. A businessman gives... More
How right is the (1st round of) CW about 2012?
As the retrospectives roll in, a debate unfolds about Obama’s early ads
By Walter Shapiro Jan 4, 2013 at 03:55 PM
Theodore White’s The Making of the President 1960 was published in hardcover in July 1961, a breakneck pace in an... More
Leave appearance out of it
Because she isn’t currently a candidate, Obama’s remarks didn’t necessarily hurt Kamala Harris. But if she had been running, a new study says that they would have hurt her
By Jennifer Vanasco Apr 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
I wasn't planning to write about the dust-up after Obama called California's Kamala Harris the country's "best-looking attorney general." After... More
Q&A: Former Detroit News Reporter Charlie LeDuff
“The point is if there’s something calamitous, let’s point it out.”
By Joel Meares Nov 9, 2010 at 12:23 PM
Charlie LeDuff left The Detroit News last month after a two-year stint in which he reported stories, wrote a regular... More
Social media fails the ‘47 percent’ video taper
Did the anonymous source need Mother Jones?
By Hazel Sheffield Oct 4, 2012 at 06:50 AM
When Mother Jones premiered the now-infamous 47 percent video on September 17, it received two million views in 24 hours... More
The return of the congressional junket
MoJo’s Andy Kroll shares his strategies for following the money in a post-Abramoff world
By Sasha Chavkin Apr 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM
* A "Fiesta de Golf," in which donors who will chip in a cool $50,000 get the chance to potentially... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
