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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
NYT Paywall to Other Papers: “Copy Me!”
There’s no excuse for other publishers not to follow the Times’s model
By Ryan Chittum Oct 20, 2011 at 02:53 PM
If The New York Times spun off its digital edition, it would be the tenth biggest paper in the country... More
The Washington Post needs a paywall—now
A strategic error needs to be reversed, stat
By Dean Starkman Nov 26, 2012 at 10:00 AM
The not-so-gentle ejection of Marcus Brauchli from the top editor’s chair at The Washington Post has cast a bright... More
WaPo and Times Go Softly, Softly with Barbour
Similar profiles tell similar tales
By Joel Meares Mar 22, 2011 at 02:59 PM
Pity poor Tim Pawlenty. The day after the former Minnesota governor made a shallow splash announcing his presidential exploratory... More
WaPo Pulls Up Short On Trade and Tariffs
By Ryan Chittum May 24, 2011 at 02:12 PM
The Washington Post looks at what happens when the U.S. actually fights low-priced Chinese imports with tariffs: The factories move... More
WaPo Short-Arms a Promising Piece on Factory Jobs
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
The Washington Post gives us an interesting but blurry snapshot of the economy, looking at how the news about manufacturing,... More
WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity
A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2011 at 02:39 PM
You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of... More
WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece
Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM
By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday... More
WaPo: OCC Had the Banks’ Back on Foreclosures
Comptroller John Dugan rejected requests from states to investigate
By Ryan Chittum Nov 9, 2010 at 09:58 AM
This Washington Post story yesterday didn't get as much attention as it ought to have. Zachary Goldfarb reports on yet... More
A Times Story Bodes Ill for the Washington Post
An investigation shows how Kaplan used predatory tactics to get students and government money
By Ryan Chittum Nov 10, 2010 at 03:32 PM
The for-profit college business just looks worse and worse, and a New York Times investigation this morning paints a disturbing... More
A Dim-Bulb Story From the Washington Post
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2012 at 07:58 PM
New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman's office this afternoon sent out a press release hammering the Washington Post's page-one story on... More
A Midsummer Donation Spike, With Context
Reports from recent campaign finance reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM
There is much that can not be found in publicly available federal campaign finance reports: the identities of all the... More
A Suspicious Palin Moratorium
By Joel Meares Jan 21, 2011 at 02:32 PM
So… Dana Milbank at The Washington Post is calling for February to be a Sarah Palin-free month. Not in the... More
A thin Post piece on the cliff’s consequences
Article on purported impact of tax shift favors assumptions and anecdotes over data
By David Cay Johnston Dec 13, 2012 at 03:13 PM
Since election day, the so-called “fiscal cliff” has moved to the top of the political news agenda, and CJR has... More
All But Ignoring the Fed’s Call for More Stimulus
Deficit-obsessed newspapers stuff Bernanke’s plea for near-term spending or tax cuts
By Ryan Chittum Nov 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM
Last week, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, Republican, Bush appointee, calm technocrat, called for more fiscal stimulus (government spending and/or... More
Anatomy of a so-called scandal (UPDATED)
On the Sen. Menendez story, flimsy prostitution claims vs. stronger allegations of influence-peddling. Guess which gets more play?
By Mariah Blake Mar 4, 2013 at 03:30 PM
Update, 3/4, 7:15 pm: Less than two hours after this article was posted, The Washington Post published a story on... More
AT&T Buys Nonprofit Support for its Anticompetitive Merger
Politico and the Washington Post follow the money
By Ryan Chittum Jun 10, 2011 at 03:39 PM
It ought to raise eyebrows when groups like the NAACP, GLAAD, and the nation's largest teachers union lobby to approve... More
Audit Notes: Beer Buys Off the ‘Burg?, Apple As Bully, Bank Propaganda
By Ryan Chittum Jan 14, 2011 at 09:09 PM
This New York Times story, which reports that residents of Brooklyn's Williamsburg protested a Duane Reade chain store coming into... More
Audit Notes: Citi Fees, A Bipartisan Bloomberg Dream, The Toil Index
By Ryan Chittum Jan 5, 2012 at 08:16 PM
Felix Salmon reports on an awful new fee Citigroup has cooked up to milk its customers. The bank will charge... More
Audit Notes: Debt Collector Scams, Occupy Oakland Coverage, Jest
By Ryan Chittum Oct 27, 2011 at 07:47 PM
The Washington Post reports on two FTC complaints against California debt collector companies, which "highlight an increase in complaints about... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
