The Kicker
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
On priorities and presidents
By Erika Fry Sep 19, 2011 at 05:09 PM
If you tuned into one of the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday—that most coveted of political press spots, conveying what... More
“The National Media” and Perry
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 19, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Some interesting bits from Politico’s recent piece on "the hunger for information" about Rick Perry and how “the Texas press... More
Damning With Absurd Praise
By Brent Cunningham Sep 19, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Check out the comments in Adweek by Gannett’s new chief marketing officer about the company’s flagship newspaper, USA Today. Maryam... More
Witnessing Somalia
By Greg Marx Sep 16, 2011 at 02:57 PM
Just a quick note: Jeffrey Gettleman's New York Times article from yesterday on famine in Somalia merits an appreciation. It's... More
Palin’s Basketball Diaries
By Erika Fry Sep 15, 2011 at 05:54 PM
Yes, we've been reviewing the media's coverage of social security and health care and the jobs plan, but we've also... More
Parsing Perry’s ‘Ponzi’ Claim
By Greg Marx Sep 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM
My short post last week on the failure of a CBS News story to assess the accuracy of Rick Perry’s... More
The Other Rogue
By Justin Peters Sep 8, 2011 at 05:28 PM
Is Joe McGinniss a jerk? Sarah Palin certainly thinks so: she didn't like it when McGinniss rented the Wasilla house... More
Shouldn’t All Stories be ‘Fact-Check’ Stories?
By Greg Marx Sep 8, 2011 at 04:55 PM
On the subject of fact-checking the presidential debates, it’s worth noting that while the proliferation of “fact-check” stories over the... More
Ham-fisted Racism at Fox Sports
By Ryan Chittum Sep 7, 2011 at 02:05 PM
So Fox Sports hired a comedian to go to the USC campus and make fun of "All American" Asian students... More
News Literacy Expands to DC
By The Editors Sep 6, 2011 at 11:17 AM
For three years, The News Literacy Project has been helping middle- and high-school students in Chicago, New York City, and... More
Hurricane Wood
By Clint Hendler Aug 29, 2011 at 09:41 AM
This weekend New Yorkers endured hours of high winds and heavy rains as Tropical Storm Irene crossed the islands and... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
