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NYT On Why Journalists Like to Compare Presidents
Did anybody think to ask journalists?
By Joel Meares May 16, 2011 at 02:37 PM
The New York Times’s Peter Baker had a piece in Sunday’s paper dealing with an issue close to many hearts... More
A Plea for the Polls
‘The press seems to behave as if it were operating in a simpler yesterday’
By Elmo Roper Nov 8, 2011 at 05:54 PM
Elmo Roper was one of the early giants of American opinion polling. His survey work for Fortune magazine, beginning in... More
Bloomberg Versus Reuters on Obama Polls
By Ryan Chittum Sep 14, 2011 at 05:15 PM
Correlation is not causation. That's a hard lesson to internalize for the press, which insists on slapping a narrative on... More
Carney’s conspiracy theory
White House Press Secretary sees GOP operatives in good journalism
By Curtis Brainard Dec 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney blamed GOP operatives for revealing that Susan Rice, President Obama’s presumed favorite... More
Factchecking enters ‘Conversation’ in Oz
How an Australian news site is taking a new approach to the format
By Brendan Nyhan Jul 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Australia has suddenly become a hotbed for political factchecking. In May, PolitiFact Australia launched as the first international affiliate of... More
Gender Imbalance on the Campaign Trail
Voters skew female; reporters still do not
By Meryl Gordon Jan 12, 2012 at 01:23 PM
MANCHESTER, NH — The sea-green and white concrete gymnasium at Saint Anselm College was transformed this past Saturday night into... More
Meet the people who know Texas politics
The newspaper columnists of the Lone Star state
By Richard Parker Mar 19, 2013 at 03:14 PM
AUSTIN, TX--When you think about newspaper columnists and the central role they've played in covering American politics, you wind up... More
Q&A: Ruby Cramer, political reporter at BuzzFeed
“The consistency with which Anthony Weiner walks around the city with a guy holding his name up behind him is impressive”
By Alexis Sobel Fitts Jul 31, 2013 at 02:55 PM
There's an audible sense of panic in Ruby Cramer's voice when she answers the phone at our scheduled interview time.... More
Santorum Goes After Social Security
The AP covers Rick’s empty rhetoric
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 9, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Noting the media’s trivial pursuit of rising star Rick Santorum, my colleague Erika Fry has called for more substantive reporting... More
The most political science-friendly reporter in America
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert takes an unusual approach to covering politics
By Brendan Nyhan Mar 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
One of the most encouraging trends in journalism over the past few years has been the tentative embrace of political... More
The word on the street: insecure
Listening to voters in Omaha’s Old Market
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 12, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Last week I found myself in Omaha, at the city’s Old Market, hoping to visit with some of the locals... More
What Drives Public Opinion About Climate Change?
Politicians, economy more influential than media coverage, study says
By Curtis Brainard Feb 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM
The media influence public opinion about climate change, but not as much as national politicians and the state of the... More
What it takes to win the White House
A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The Candidate
By Jordan Michael Smith May 14, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The Candidate: What It Takes to Win—And Hold—The White House | By Samuel L. Popkin | Oxford University Press... More
Who you calling ‘working-class’?
Some things for the political press to think about as it covers Campaign 2012
By Brent Cunningham May 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Attention all political reporters and editors. If you don’t know about the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State, in... 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.
