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A close watch on Scott Walker’s jobs pledge
For PolitiFact Wisconsin’s “Walk-o-meter,” the key innovation is sustained attention
By Anna Clark Mar 21, 2013 at 02:50 PM
DETROIT, MI -- When Scott Walker campaigned to become the governor of Wisconsin in 2010, there was one promise that... More
Bill Adair, setting pants ablaze no more
The PolitiFact founder on his move to academia and the state of the factchecking movement
By Brendan Nyhan Apr 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Tampa Bay Times announced last week that Bill Adair, the newspaper's Washington bureau chief and the founder and editor... More
Fact Checking the Fact Checkers
PolitiFact is half right on two State of the Union truth-o-meters
By Ryan Chittum Jan 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Commenter James asked me to take a look at a couple of verdicts from PolitiFact on the State of the... More
The “Government Takeover of Health Care” Is Baaaack!
Chris Christie waves the bloody shirt
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 3, 2011 at 01:22 PM
A “government takeover of health care” is back. At least it is in the mind of New Jersey governor Chris... 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
What we can learn from the factcheckers’ ratings
Sure, the factcheckers have their biases. It still means something that Republicans get the worst scores
By Lucas Graves Jun 4, 2013 at 02:50 PM
What should we make of the latest tally showing that Republicans fare worse with factcheckers than Democrats do? Last week... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
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.
