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“We Will Make BP Pay”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2010 at 09:40 AM
"We will make BP Pay" are among the words from President Obama's Oval Office address last night that seemed to... More
Combatting Oil Spill Fatigue “Jejune Ennui”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2010 at 02:54 PM
The WaPo's Tom Shales today gives the Style-ish take on the oil spill, as seen on TV. Shales argues that... More
Calling BS on Official Boilerplate
By Greg Marx Jun 15, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Adam Liptak has a story in today’s New York Times about William Macumber, an Arizona man who’s been in prison... More
Afghan Minerals Story “Aroused Considerable Suspicion from Times Readers”…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 14, 2010 at 01:58 PM
... notes Bassey Etim at The New York Times's The Lede blog today (of James Risen's A1 Times piece today,... More
Another Null Result: Obama’s Numbers Stable in Wake of Spill
By Greg Marx Jun 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM
John Harwood’s Monday contributions to The New York Times’s “Caucus” blog provide a reliably level-headed take on the political news... More
Prez Should Stop “[C]omplaining on TV about TV”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM
The Nation's Ari Melber has, according to his headline, "The Solution to Obama's BP Press Problem." Writes Melber: Obama is... More
WaPo, NYT, Anonymous Sources
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 14, 2010 at 09:59 AM
"[B]y casually agreeing to conceal the identities of those who provide non-critical information, The [Washington] Post erodes its credibility and... More
CJR Wins Two Mirror Awards
By The Editors Jun 10, 2010 at 03:59 PM
Congratulations to CJR's Dean Starkman and former staff writer Megan Garber for their victories at today's Mirror Awards ceremony. The... More
Party-Switchers Losing Elections: Not Hard to Explain
By Greg Marx Jun 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM
A piece in Politico today proffers a few explanations for Blanche Lincoln’s moderately surprising win in Arkansas’s Democratic Senate primary.... More
More On Super-Soakering With Sources
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM
In response to questions from Twitter followers, Mark Knoller, White House correspondent for CBS News Radio, has been tweeting about... More
Carly Fiorina Hands Sean Hannity a New Tagline
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2010 at 09:31 AM
Yesterday, Carly Fiorina, California's brand new Republican Senatorial candidate, had herself an open mic situation while waiting to begin an... More
Going underwater with the AP
By Clint Hendler Jun 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Via Joe Strupp (once of Editor & Publisher, now with Media Matters) here's a clip of AP reporter Rich Matthews... More
Pick a Narrative, any Narrative…
By Greg Marx Jun 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM
So, the results from Super Duper Tuesday are in. What insta-narratives are our leading press outlets constructing? Let’s take a... More
Primaries & The Gang
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2010 at 09:49 AM
And the feelin's right/Oh, yes it's... ABC News CBS News's Bob Schieffer: "The biggest election day of the year heading... More
FP On How Media Misread Tehran
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2010 at 03:08 PM
Foreign Policy has an interesting package of stories reflecting on the media coverage of last year's elections in Iran, including... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
