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A Broken Lede
The government isn’t “broke.” Reporters should stop saying it is.
By Greg Marx Jun 13, 2011 at 03:46 PM
The Associated Press has an important story today about the fairly horrifying condition of many state budgets. On its site,... More
A cure for second-term doldrums?
TNR’s Obama “recovery guide” is a break from the media tedium
By Brendan Nyhan Jul 2, 2013 at 11:10 AM
During second terms, the Washington press corps gets bored. There's usually not much going on! As a result, reporters hype... More
A Great Catch by Ben Smith
Belly-aching about the presidential field is nothing new
By Greg Marx May 23, 2011 at 03:55 PM
The announcement by Mitch Daniels, the Republican governor of Indiana, that he won’t run for president in 2012 seems likely... More
A kingmaker for the invisible primary
By Greg Marx Jul 6, 2011 at 09:17 AM
Yesterday, we published an interview I conducted with Hans Noel, co-author of the 2008 book The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations... More
A picture is worth a thousand memes
Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker responds to Farhad Manjoo
By Matt Wuerker Apr 23, 2012 at 03:17 PM
Farhad Manjoo thinks political cartoons are stale, stupid, and unfunny—or so he argued in Slate last week, saying that, instead... More
A Web survey isn’t a poll, CNBC
The network’s tweet creates a misleading media narrative on the veep debate
By Ryan Chittum Oct 12, 2012 at 03:57 AM
Whoever was running the CNBC Twitter feed last night didn't know the difference between a scientific poll and a Web... More
Aggregation aggravation
Politico’s Maggie Haberman has a pretty liberal view of how much to quote when aggregating. Should she be more conservative?
By Sara Morrison Sep 12, 2012 at 07:30 PM
How much aggregation is too much? It's been years since aggregator extraordinaire Huffington Post entered the online media fray, and... More
Are the fiscal fights a bore?
Not to those who dig
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM
One of the more telling stories to emerge during the holidays was Politico’s candid take on coverage of the fiscal... More
AT&T Buys Nonprofit Support for its Anticompetitive Merger
Politico and the Washington Post follow the money
By Ryan Chittum Jun 10, 2011 at 03:39 PM
It ought to raise eyebrows when groups like the NAACP, GLAAD, and the nation's largest teachers union lobby to approve... More
Audit Notes: Politico’s Goldman PR, ProPublica Vindicated, Mark to Myth
By Ryan Chittum Jan 28, 2011 at 06:06 PM
The Huffington Post's Peter S. Goodman points to a bizarre report in Politico this morning: Much was made of a... More
Audit Notes: Romney’s Black Box, Banker Probe, Laffer Curveball
By Ryan Chittum Jan 12, 2012 at 08:01 PM
Politico makes a good point about how reporters are having something of a hard time assessing Mitt Romney's tenure at... More
Audit Notes: Unnamed Source No-No, “Grassroots” Wisconsin, Kinsley
By Ryan Chittum Mar 1, 2011 at 07:47 PM
The Washington Post gives us a case study today in how not to use anonymous sources. It reports that the... More
Bachmann and Pawlenty: Where’s the Policy in this Grudge Match?
Politico misses an opportunity
By Joel Meares Jun 3, 2011 at 08:56 AM
My colleague Greg Marx on Thursday gave something of a laurel to the Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman for a... 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
Birthday Coverage for the Affordable Care Act
The two faces of health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 22, 2012 at 04:16 PM
The health reform law celebrates its two-year anniversary tomorrow. There are myriad ways to report on the Affordable Care Act... More
Covering a “Koch-Fueled” Weekend in CA
Reports from the clandestine conservative confab
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 3, 2011 at 03:38 PM
Charles and David Koch, the billionaire owners of Koch Industries, hosted a semi-annual, invitation-only conference for conservative political donors, strategists,... More
Cracking open Congress
We need better insider reporting about the “fiscal cliff”
By Brendan Nyhan Dec 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
We've just finished an election in which quantitative analysis provided far more accurate predictions than pundits and reporters, who frequently... More
Hawaii Four-Four
Digging deep on the president’s Christmas vacation
By Joel Meares Dec 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Pity the poor political writer who must spend his or her pre-holiday hours eking out a report on the President’s... More
Hey readers: They’re bluffing! (maybe)
The need to put political bargaining positions in context
By Brendan Nyhan Jan 15, 2013 at 03:00 PM
Insider reporting is vital to understanding what The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib describes as the "'Groundhog Day' loop of... More
In Joe Willams’s firing, questions of race
Would the former Politico reporter have been dismissed for his comments if he were white?
By Jennifer Vanasco Jul 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In America, talk about race is complex and fraught with danger. It is easy for people of good will to... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
