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News Judgment
The Journal Hypes the Downgrade
A three-day-old story gets the overkill treatment
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2011 at 02:44 PM
That Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. from AAA to AA+ is a big story no doubt. But The Wall... More
A Particularly Weak WSJ Page One
One-sided on the deficit, plus stale news, and a royal yawner
By Ryan Chittum Nov 17, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Boy, this morning's Wall Street Journal page one leaves a lot to be desired. First, there's this story: States Offer... More
Bernanke’s Stimulus Call Finally Makes The WSJ
Two weeks later.
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2010 at 11:46 AM
A couple of weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke issued a public call for Congress and the president to... More
Big Wheel Keep on Turnin’
Hamster for the holidays from the NYT, WSJ, and Politico
By Ryan Chittum Nov 24, 2010 at 03:09 PM
Audit boss Dean Starkman wrote a CJR cover story a couple of months ago called "The Hamster Wheel," decrying journalistic... More
More On Why I’m Talking About Tim Cook’s Sexuality
By Felix Salmon Aug 26, 2011 at 02:50 PM
Every so often I put a blog post up, start getting feedback on it, and realize I’ve got things horribly... More
The WSJ’s Sony Story Is a Page-One Dud
By Ryan Chittum Feb 2, 2012 at 07:21 PM
News that Sony's board has picked a new CEO gets page-one play in The Wall Street Journal, apparently because Kazuo... More
The Second-Day Fed Bailouts Coverage
From good to okay to non-existent
By Ryan Chittum Dec 3, 2010 at 07:31 PM
And just like that, the Federal Reserve bailout story disappears from the pages of The Wall Street Journal. There's not... 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?
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.
