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Transparency
A bogus boycott
The GOP hijacks the transparency debate as the EPA calls for a ‘reset’ with reporters
By Curtis Brainard May 10, 2013 at 03:00 PM
At Gina McCarthy's congressional confirmation hearing in early April, questions about transparency at the Environmental Protection Agency, which she'd been... More
A New Commitment to Transparency at ESPN
Network to codify its standards and practices
By Craig Silverman Jan 27, 2011 at 02:34 PM
In October the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an e-mail to supporters that was signed by former Notre Dame football... More
Audit Notes: Up Next For Wikileaks: The Banks, Forbes, Gaming Google
By Ryan Chittum Nov 29, 2010 at 07:19 PM
Julian Assange is Forbes's cover boy this week. No surprise there. He just turned the diplomatic community on its head... More
Best of 2010: Clint Hendler
Hendler picks his top stories from 2010
By Clint Hendler Dec 31, 2010 at 11:39 AM
No Handouts: The administration has denied independent photographers access to historic White House events that could easily be made public,... More
Best of 2010: The Observatory
Curtis Brainard picks the top stories from 2010
By Curtis Brainard Dec 29, 2010 at 01:11 PM
1. “New” Media Crucial in Aftermath of Haitian Earthquake With standard telephone, radio, and television communications disabled, “new” media platforms... More
Bloomberg Ferrets Out New Details on the Fed’s Bailouts
By Ryan Chittum May 26, 2011 at 01:43 PM
There were so many bailouts going on in 2008 that Congress apparently forgot about some of them. Bloomberg gets a... More
BPI’s beef with ABC News
‘Pink slime’ defamation suit a long shot, media report
By Curtis Brainard Oct 3, 2012 at 12:00 PM
The maker of “lean, finely textured beef,” which critics call “pink slime,” is unlikely to prevail in a defamation lawsuit... More
CJR Event: Science News and Government Transparency
Access denied
By Curtis Brainard Oct 3, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Has the Obama administration lived up to its promise to make science more transparent and accessible to the public? An... More
Drones and transparency
White House criticized for secrecy, PBS’s NOVA for conflict
By Curtis Brainard Feb 20, 2013 at 03:45 PM
It's no secret that journalists, especially those on the science beat, don't think that President Obama has lived up his... More
Know Your Journalists
New transparency website compiles personal data on reporters
By Craig Silverman Nov 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM
In 2006 Adrian Holovaty, then a programmer and journalist of some reputation, wrote a blog post entitled, “A fundamental way... More
Matt Taibbi vs. the SEC
Rolling Stone gets no credit from most of the press for a huge scoop
By Felix Salmon Aug 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM
Matt Taibbi’s 5,000-word exposé of the SEC’s document-shredding is a magnificent piece of journalism, and is the first and last... More
McCarthy faces transparency questions
Journalists, GOP demand more openness at EPA
By Curtis Brainard Apr 12, 2013 at 03:35 PM
Journalists and the GOP called for more transparency at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week, as Gina McCarthy, the... More
Open government?
Some progress, on paper at least
By Curtis Brainard Mar 15, 2013 at 06:58 AM
Since President Obama came to the White House in 2009, federal regulatory and science agencies have taken measurable steps--on paper,... More
Q & A: Lucy Dalglish and Jennifer Lynch
Two open government experts talk about the year’s top FOIA issues
By Erin Siegal Apr 9, 2012 at 01:13 PM
The FOIA Watchdog chats with Lucy Dalglish, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Jennifer Lynch,... More
Q&A: Michael Morisy, Co-Founder of MuckRock
On helping journalists with their public records requests
By Erin Siegal Feb 13, 2012 at 02:46 PM
MuckRock is an online startup that helps journalists streamline, track, and fulfill their public records requests. Since May 2010, when... More
Salazar threatens to ‘punch out’ reporter
Interior Secretary angered by tough questions at Obama campaign event
By Curtis Brainard Nov 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar threatened to “punch out” a journalist for having the temerity to ask him questions... More
STOCK fraud?
Reporters miss a chance to expose Congress’s weak rationale for an ethics rule rollback
By Sasha Chavkin Apr 17, 2013 at 02:50 PM
On Monday, President Obama quietly signed a bill repealing the major provisions of the much-touted ethics law known as the... More
The WSJ Flags an Accounting Trick on Private Pensions
By Ryan Chittum Mar 10, 2011 at 03:25 PM
The Wall Street Journal had an excellent story yesterday on how major companies are playing around with their pension accounting... More
The Chamber of Commerce, Front for Hated Industries
Bloomberg reveals health insurers gave $86 million to oppose Obama’s reform plan
By Ryan Chittum Nov 18, 2010 at 05:21 PM
Bloomberg gets a great scoop on the Chamber of Commerce, reporting that the health-insurance industry gave the secretive nonprofit a... More
The Muzzling of the FDA
How government press officers stole our freedom
By Jim Dickinson Dec 6, 2010 at 03:50 PM
It is 1978. I have just been refused admission to a Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association section meeting that is to... 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.
