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Required skimming: campaign finance
Here’s how to follow the money
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 2, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: data journalism
Learn how the experts make numbers look pretty
By Anna Codrea-Rado Aug 30, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: design
All the pretty things
By Molly Mirhashem Aug 16, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: entertainment industry
Get the inside scoop on all the Botoxed faces
By Sara Morrison Aug 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: Euro crisis
Understand all the overseas finance stuff that nobody gets
By Ryan Chittum Aug 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: food politics and policy
If you believe you are what you eat, you’ll want to read these
By Brent Cunningham Aug 31, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: fossil fuels
Drill, baby, drill
By Curtis Brainard Aug 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: healthcare politics and policy
Channeling the inner wonk
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: higher education
As back-to-school time approaches, here’s how to stay educated about education
By Peter Sterne Aug 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: how campaigns work
Learn how the wonks view the horse race
By Greg Marx Aug 14, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: hyperlocal
Where to learn about game plans for covering local news in an ever-more-digital world
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 9, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: journalism business models
All the things I could do/If I had a little money
By Michael Meyer Aug 29, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: journalism’s funny
Laughing so we don’t cry, or drink
By Kira Goldenberg Aug 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: Libor
Understand and keep up to speed with England’s bank rate rigging scandal
By Ryan Chittum Aug 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: literary criticism
Keep abreast of what the bookish thinkers are thinking
By Justin Peters Aug 3, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: media news aggregators not named Romenesko
(Only because everyone knows about him already)
By Michael Meyer Aug 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: music
Great reads about great listens
By Hazel Sheffield Aug 7, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: pop culture
More than enough snark to get you through a workday
By Sara Morrison Aug 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: space and astronomy
Satisfy your “Curiosity” about space
By Curtis Brainard Aug 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
Required skimming: sports
The Olympics pass through periodically, but obsessive sports coverage is forever
By Brent Cunningham Aug 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... 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?
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