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A New Commitment to Transparency at ESPN
Network to codify its standards and practices
By Craig Silverman Jan 27, 2011 at 02:34 PM
In October the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an e-mail to supporters that was signed by former Notre Dame football... More
Audit notes: Murdoch and the Conservatives, M&A, ESPN fail
Tantalizing but thinly sourced info on Rebekah Brooks’s texts to David Cameron
By Ryan Chittum May 2, 2012 at 07:20 PM
Peter Oborne writes a must-read column for The Telegraph on how the Murdoch scandal is threatening, unnecessarily, to bring down... More
Best of 2011: Ryan Chittum
The Audit’s deputy editor picks his top CJR stories from the past year
By Ryan Chittum Dec 30, 2011 at 01:36 AM
Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp. On the pressing question of how much Rupert Murdoch is a... More
ESPN Obscures Its Own Role in the Conference Realignment Mess
The network’s $300 million deal with Texas, at the heart of the news, goes almost unmentioned
By Ryan Chittum Sep 22, 2011 at 06:34 PM
If you cover college sports for ESPN, you've got a real problem right now. The biggest story these days is... More
ESPN’s interchangeable women
To the Bristol brass, it’s the network, not the talent, that makes the star
By Robert Weintraub May 6, 2013 at 03:51 PM
In recent months, ESPN has taken a distinctly Bill Belichick-ian approach to its on-air talent, in particular its female announcers.... More
ESPN’s unreality-based coverage
Karl Rove’s got nothing on the boys from Bristol
By Robert Weintraub Nov 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM
One of the main takeaways from last week’s election was that conservatives were living in a bubble of delusion, convinced... More
Grantland Rises
An initial review of Bill Simmons’s sports site
By Sam Eifling Jun 10, 2011 at 01:19 PM
As a journalist it’s impossible not to root for Grantland, the long-form ESPN spinoff site captained by logorrheic NBA junkie... More
Nate Silver’s next steps
At ESPN, he’s going to build his brand into a staffed site
By Kira Goldenberg Jul 22, 2013 at 04:45 PM
Nate Silver's move from The New York Times to ESPN is turning the reporter-statistician into the editor in chief of... More
No sweat on ESPN’s brow
Fox Sports 1 won’t be able to paint itself as the ‘fair and balanced’ alternative
By Robert Weintraub Mar 6, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Terry Bradshaw. Erin Andrews. Tim McCarver. Even Regis Philbin. All the stars in the Fox Sports galaxy gathered Tuesday afternoon... More
Room for two
New Yorker, Grantland go head to head on Iditarod coverage
By Robert Weintraub Apr 30, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Certainly a thousand-mile race across the vast empty expanse of the Alaskan wilderness has room for two massive, longform articles... More
The game has changed
As moves by Nate Silver and Pete King suggest, it’s better to be cocooned inside Big Media than go it alone—even for stars
By Robert Weintraub Jul 24, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Over the weekend, the media world was shaken by the announcement that mathematical guru Nate Silver, the dude who buried... More
X-treme denial
Why aren’t the player-safety concerns that dog the NFL an issue in ESPN’s X Games?
By Robert Weintraub Jan 31, 2013 at 10:10 AM
It's Super Bowl week, but the majority of talk from the pigskin chattering class revolved around football's existential nature, thanks... 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”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
