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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 Curious Omission at the Times
Three Social Security proposals, or two?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 24, 2010 at 09:44 AM
It was puzzling to see Jackie Calmes’s brief story in The New York Times last week with its provocative headline:... 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 Scoop, SAC’s Golf Guy, Two Old Guys Flailing
By Ryan Chittum Nov 19, 2010 at 11:53 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a big scoop out this evening, reporting that the federal government is winding up a... More
NPR Plays Ebenezer Scrooge
Another lopsided Social Security story
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM
It was really hard to tell whether NPR’s Morning Edition segment yesterday—part of the program’s “Ghosts of Debts Past, Present... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Jude Love
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM
This is the seventh in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More
Well, What Do You Know, Sherlock?
The media discover Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 12, 2010 at 03:15 PM
Ouch! That was the media’s general reaction yesterday to the ideas in the report issued by the co-chairs of the... 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.
