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political science
Factchecking enters ‘Conversation’ in Oz
How an Australian news site is taking a new approach to the format
By Brendan Nyhan Jul 31, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Australia has suddenly become a hotbed for political factchecking. In May, PolitiFact Australia launched as the first international affiliate of... More
How extreme is that legislator, really?
A new data set on lawmakers’ ideology can bolster reporting at the state level
By Brendan Nyhan May 23, 2013 at 07:25 AM
When Republican Scott Brown faced Democrat Martha Coakley in a January 2010 special election for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, he... More
No, the scandals aren’t dragging down Obama’s ratings (yet)
Some reporters seize on an outlier poll, but others get the story right
By Brendan Nyhan Jun 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Get out your wizard hats! It's starting to sound like campaign season again. Just as political reporters wanted to tell... More
Q&A: Poli-Sci Blogger John Sides
The GWU professor on what we can—and can’t—learn from early polling
By Greg Marx May 19, 2011 at 04:03 PM
The 2012 election is almost eighteen months away, but politics junkies are already being treated to polls asking if people... More
The most political science-friendly reporter in America
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert takes an unusual approach to covering politics
By Brendan Nyhan Mar 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
One of the most encouraging trends in journalism over the past few years has been the tentative embrace of political... More
What we can learn from the factcheckers’ ratings
Sure, the factcheckers have their biases. It still means something that Republicans get the worst scores
By Lucas Graves Jun 4, 2013 at 02:50 PM
What should we make of the latest tally showing that Republicans fare worse with factcheckers than Democrats do? Last week... 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.
