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Major papers’ longform meltdown
Stories longer than 2,000 words down 86 percent at the LAT since 2003, 50 percent at WaPo, etc.
By Dean Starkman Jan 17, 2013 at 03:11 PM
No one equates story-length with quality. Let’s start with that concession. But still. Story-length is hardly meaningless when you consider... More
WSJ Marginalizes Muller
Climate-change op-ed didn’t run in the paper’s US edition
By Curtis Brainard Nov 17, 2011 at 05:00 PM
Media Matters, a group dedicated to bird-dogging conservative spin in the press, made a good catch last week when it... More
A Big Omission at NBC
Whatever happened to Social Security?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM
NBC Nightly News took on retirement income the other day and found most Americans’s savings will come up short. The... More
And that’s the way it was: March 14, 1921
Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable is born in New York, NY
By The Editors Mar 14, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman) was born on March 14, 1921, and grew up in Manhattan's Upper West Side. She... More
Another WSJ Deficit Plan Headline Misses the Mark
By Felix Salmon Nov 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM
The WSJ does none of its readers any favors with its silly headline attempting to sum up the effects of... More
Audit Notes: WSJ Explains Ireland, Eisinger, Tragedy of the Technocrats
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2010 at 04:13 PM
Every once in a while, we get one of those page-one stories in The Wall Street Journal that remind you... More
Audit Notes: Free Trade “Hit,” Taxing Wall Street, Bruce Karatz v. Tron Carter
By Ryan Chittum Nov 12, 2010 at 03:29 PM
One thing the financial press doesn't much pretend to be neutral about is "free trade." They love that stuff. See... More
Conservatives Get Colorful on Obama’s Deficit Speech
More subdued libs are mostly pleased
By Joel Meares Apr 14, 2011 at 01:11 PM
The president’s speech yesterday was notable to my ears for two things: the surprisingly direct attack on Rep. Paul... More
Exclusive excerpts: ‘The Gestation Period of Llama (Or why I quit The Wall Street Journal)’
In an new essay, a former investigative reporter explains how a Murdoch-ized operation led her to leave journalism and reinvent herself
By Dean Starkman Jun 3, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Once, dissent was common in American newsrooms. Today, it's rare for reporters, or even former reporters, to speak up about... More
Lean, Mean Campaign Money Machine
Crossroads groups tell WSJ, world what they aim to spend on election 2012
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM
The paper that is home to a weekly column by Karl Rove got first dibs Tuesday on the announcement of... More
Money Talks
Why do we never hear from the working class on op-ed pages?
By Erika Fry Aug 24, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Last week, eighty-year-old billionaire Warren Buffett whipped up a media frenzy when, in an op-ed for The New York Times... More
Overplaying the Two Old Guys’ Report
The Times busts out the war font for a deficit plan with dubious prospects
By Ryan Chittum Nov 11, 2010 at 02:00 PM
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times misplay the report out of the deficit commission panel today. The Journal... More
Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced—and the Journal’s One of Them
By Joel Meares Apr 18, 2011 at 03:31 PM
The Wall Street Journal has won its first Pulitzer since Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 2007. The award... More
Steve Inskeep Stands Up for NPR
Challenges notion that network is “liberal” in WSJ
By Joel Meares Mar 24, 2011 at 03:47 PM
The NPR board may have buckled under the pressure of James O’Keefe’s faux scandal, but weeks after the Schillers... More
Stories I’d like to see
Lying to the SEC, A-Rod’s contract, everybody gets hacked
By Steven Brill Feb 5, 2013 at 11:15 AM
In his "Stories I'd like to see" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have... More
Tell Me a Secret
Soliciting leaks has its rewards, and challenges
By Alysia Santo Jan 12, 2012 at 03:27 PM
When news website 100Reporters launched this past October, it had everything you’d expect from a promising journalistic startup: top journalists,... More
The WSJ Editorial Board Whiffs on Taxes
Bad math plus hypocrisy on deficits equals Review & Outlook
By Ryan Chittum Apr 22, 2011 at 04:22 PM
The New Republic's Jonathan Chait and Columbia's Jeffrey Sachs rip into the Wall Street Journal editorial page for making some... More
The Daley News
What the press is saying about the new COS pick
By Joel Meares Jan 7, 2011 at 01:31 PM
Yesterday President Obama held a press conference to announce that William Daley—the former commerce secretary who went on to a... More
The undercovered dark cloud in the shrinking-deficit story
Flurry of articles was welcome, but some cautionary notes deserved greater play
By David Cay Johnston May 30, 2013 at 03:08 PM
The federal budget deficit has been shrinking like a wool sweater in a clothes dryer, but that fact seems mostly... More
WSJ minimizes the latest IRS news
A solid reporter’s story gives curiously short shrift to fresh facts. Meanwhile, what was the IG directed to find?
By David Cay Johnston Jun 26, 2013 at 04:42 PM
When the latest revelations in the IRS political targeting controversy--the fact that nonprofit applications from groups whose names suggested they... 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
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CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
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Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
