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USA Today’s 30th birthday bash
The paper promises to reinvent the news businesses amid crab cakes and blue champagne
By Michael Meyer Sep 14, 2012 at 03:26 PM
Thursday night, the Gannett Company gathered employees, friends, and family at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, to celebrate... More
USA Today’s Ham-fisted Public Workers Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 1, 2011 at 05:47 PM
USA Today runs a poor story this morning that says its analysis finds that government workers make more in total... More
USA Today’s Mixed-Up Message
What exactly did the deficit commission do?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 6, 2010 at 01:09 PM
On Friday, USA Today reported that the president’s fiscal commission “approved a plan today to cut federal deficits by $3.9... More
A critical eye on the ‘skills gap’
The Free Press, Star Tribune, and USA Today ask questions
By Ryan Chittum Aug 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
There's no shortage of uncritical reporting on the notion that employers, and particularly manufacturers, can't find enough qualified workers even... More
An eye on environmental justice
EHN series focuses on an under-covered angle on toxics
By Curtis Brainard Jun 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
A number of media reports in last year have examined the impacts of toxic pollution on communities, but few have... More
Audit Notes: Amazon watch, the Capitalist Tool, WSJ and Pinochet
NYT finds the dominant bookseller reining in the discounts in some areas
By Ryan Chittum Jul 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Amazon has long employed predatory pricing to establish market dominance. And in Monopoly 101, cornering a market allows you to... More
Audit Notes: Perk Up, Core Inflation, What Passes for News
By Ryan Chittum Apr 12, 2011 at 07:49 PM
USA Today takes a long look at CEO perks, but it doesn't do a good job of prioritizing the really... More
Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall
Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme
By Ryan Chittum Nov 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The investigative journalist Roddy Boyd has some excellent reporting on a multilevel marketing company (read: pyramid scheme) called ViSalus: ViSalus... More
Audit Notes: scoops and leaks, CNBC hardball, FT on Dow Jones CEO
The WSJ sniffs at a USA Today exclusive on Obama’s immigration plan
By Ryan Chittum Feb 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
It's totally a shoe-leather scoop when you get the story. It's a "leak" when somebody else does. That's what The... More
Can the media avoid inaugural over-hype?
A little over-emoting is inevitable, but there are some cliches we can do without
By Walter Shapiro Jan 18, 2013 at 03:10 PM
After Bill Clinton took the oath of office for the second time in 1997, a USA Today columnist burbled, "Clinton's... More
Context-free market reporting on a post-election dive
First-term bull market goes unmentioned after a November 7 stock dip
By Ryan Chittum Nov 12, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The stock market dive the day after President Obama was re-elected, dropping 320 points, or 2.4 percent. The Drudge Report,... More
One document, many interpretations
Varied takes on CBO report show “the media” is a competitive market, not a monolith
By David Cay Johnston Feb 7, 2013 at 02:30 PM
What a difference reporters and editors can make in choosing from the same report what is news and where and... More
Other Views of Social Security
The MSM gives some equal time
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Campaign Desk has been hard of late on some MSM outlets that have presented lopsided views of the Social Security... More
Progress with pertussis: Is it goodbye?
In the sequestration era, reporters need to stay on the whooping cough story
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Mar 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In a recent piece for msnbc.com, Geoffrey Cowley paints a dark picture of the impact sequestration cuts will have on... More
Some Helpful Guides to Election Night TV
What to read while you watch
By Joel Meares Nov 2, 2010 at 02:59 PM
My colleague Liz Cox Barrett previewed the big guns' plans for tonight’s coverage. But just what should you have in... More
Speaking truth to power as a criminal act
A new documentary looks at the press and democracy implications of punishing whistleblowers
By Susan Armitage Apr 19, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In 2007, Franz Gayl, a civilian Marine Corps science advisor, went public with concerns about delays delivering armored vehicles requested... More
The media’s ‘happily ever after’
Why are women like Jennifer Aniston portrayed as sad and lonely if they aren’t married?
By Jennifer Vanasco Aug 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Jennifer Aniston is one of... More
The most hated blogger in America
The secret to Chris Chase — and possibly USA Today’s — success
By Sara Morrison Dec 13, 2012 at 05:00 PM
USA Today senior sports blog editor Chris Chase's posts, covering the lighter side of sports culture, are typical fare; aggregated... More
The return of the congressional junket
MoJo’s Andy Kroll shares his strategies for following the money in a post-Abramoff world
By Sasha Chavkin Apr 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM
* A "Fiesta de Golf," in which donors who will chip in a cool $50,000 get the chance to potentially... More
Time to leave budget biases behind
Deficits are falling and government jobs are disappearing. Is it really so obvious we have a spending problem?
By David Cay Johnston Feb 28, 2013 at 03:00 PM
With the automatic federal spending cuts known as sequestration set to take effect Friday--and plenty of other budget wars looming... 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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
