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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 Sang Ngo 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
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
‘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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
