The Kicker
Found: Coverage of FEC “Stalemate”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 8, 2011 at 09:45 AM
ProPublica’s Marian Wang describes in a piece posted yesterday the ongoing “gridlock” at the Federal Election Commission (the agency, Wang... More
Charges dropped against first reporter arrested at Occupy Wall Street
By Erika Fry Nov 4, 2011 at 11:17 AM
A good sign came out of New York City’s criminal court yesterday for journalists who have been swept up in... More
ProPublica’s Rad Redistricting Music Video
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 2, 2011 at 04:07 PM
Nearly as catchy as “Fifty Nifty United States” and undoubtedly more edifying than a semester in Mr. Lewis's fourth period... More
When Ledes Go Wrong
By Erika Fry Nov 1, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Dear San Jose Mercury News, This is not the most politic way to begin a story about the West Nile... More
Cain’s Other Scandal
By Erika Fry Oct 31, 2011 at 03:08 PM
In case you missed it, frontrunner Herman Cain is facing allegations, reported last night by Politico, that he sexually harassed... More
NYT Lets You Play Political Donor
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 17, 2011 at 04:05 PM
Want to give $1 million to Herman Cain's presidential effort but don't want the public to be privy to your... More
A Sextee’s Story
By Erika Fry Oct 14, 2011 at 10:17 AM
It was nearly one year ago—to the day!—that Traci Nobles, a cheerleading coach from Athens, Georgia, “made a few provocative... More
GOP Debate: Animal Planet or Wizard of Oz
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 12, 2011 at 02:09 PM
Today is the day when columnists in our capital compare the GOP presidential candidates to nonhumans and liken the experience... More
Tom Friedman Needs A Factchecker
By Erika Fry Oct 7, 2011 at 04:33 PM
We’ve called out Tom Friedman in recent months for being “radically wrong” in the past. And then for being “still... More
Photos from the Nobel Prize Press Pool
By Lauren Kirchner Oct 6, 2011 at 02:43 PM
Today in Stockholm the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: eighty-year-old Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer.... More
With Perry, it pays to look under the rock
By Erika Fry Oct 4, 2011 at 12:44 PM
While many reporters in Texas might be racing down dusty roads to find that rock, Brenda Bell of the Austin... More
Does This Mean the Iowa Caucuses Are Like eHarmony?
By Greg Marx Sep 29, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Web headline on the lead campaign story in The New York Times today: “Romney Waits as G.O.P. Flirts with Alternates.”... More
Count the Chris Christie Headlines…
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 27, 2011 at 03:38 PM
…appearing on Politico’s home page right now (here's a screen shot): I spy these four highly informative headlines: "Christie Still... More
A Times Conflict of Interest Resolved
By The Editors Sep 27, 2011 at 02:21 PM
In 2009, Ethan Bronner, who has run the Jerusalem bureau for The New York Times since March 2008, joined the... More
This Time Around, Little Traction for ‘Class Warfare’
By Greg Marx Sep 21, 2011 at 04:51 PM
This bit of faint praise may reflect—to borrow a phrase—the soft bigotry of low expectations, but I’ll offer it anyway:... 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.
