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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
‘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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
