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New York’s Obama WH Profile Juicy and Lite
Heilemann on the Obama redux
By Joel Meares Jan 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM
John Heilemann has the cover of New York this week—out today with a picture of the president on the front,... More
A Photo of History Being Made (Up)?
Spot the presidential address reenactment photo!
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2011 at 06:07 PM
One of the images below is of President Obama delivering his historic "justice has been done" address live to the... More
Before We Meet the Press Secretary
A chance for all to raise the bar
By Joel Meares Jan 27, 2011 at 12:05 PM
The new White House press secretary is likely to be announced today or tomorrow. Whoever it is, they will step... More
D.C.’s Early Risers on the Import of Info
But Times report lacking a lot of its own
By Joel Meares Jan 18, 2011 at 10:24 AM
A piece on page A14 of this morning’s Times details the pre-dawn “information wars” raging every morning in Washington D.C.—or,... More
Left, Right, and Center: A budget analysis roundup
A budget worth shellacking or perfect politics?
By Joel Meares Feb 15, 2011 at 02:03 PM
We’ve all had a day or so to chew over President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget—a $3.7 trillion plan that... More
Obama Leaves the Pundits Wanting More
Libya speech did little to clear up the unclear
By Joel Meares Mar 29, 2011 at 01:08 PM
If the president had hoped last night’s speech would quash claims that the purpose and objective of our intervention... More
Pardon Me?
Hu’s admission lost in translation
By Joel Meares Jan 20, 2011 at 01:15 PM
Yesterday’s White House press conference with President Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao was a somewhat stilted affair, mostly due... More
Said and Unsaid
Which topics the press asks about—and which ones it doesn’t—at Obama’s press conferences
By Greg Marx Jul 1, 2011 at 10:50 AM
How was the media’s performance at this week’s presidential press conference? With one or two exceptions, pretty good. In addition... More
Sims: White House Edition
By Joel Meares Mar 29, 2011 at 02:07 PM
The National Journal has news graphics lovers oooing and ahhing today with an impressive interactive map of the West Wing.... More
Too moderate, too foreign, too Obama: next!
Huntsman, Jr. dismissed before he gets out of the gate?
By Joel Meares Feb 1, 2011 at 02:25 PM
The U.S. ambassador to China, Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., officially confirmed his resignation yesterday, handing President Obama a letter stating... More
What it takes to win the White House
A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The Candidate
By Jordan Michael Smith May 14, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The Candidate: What It Takes to Win—And Hold—The White House | By Samuel L. Popkin | Oxford University Press... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
