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Press Freedom, Russia and Shish Kebab
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM
The latest dust up over press freedom in Russia started over the name of a shish kebab restaurant. From sometime... More
Fact-Checking…SNL
By Megan Garber Oct 5, 2009 at 11:58 AM
It wouldn't be Monday if the morning shows weren't abuzz with whatever political satire was produced on Saturday Night Live... More
While the Tube Star Gently Weeps
By Megan Garber Oct 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Glenn Beck is known for many things, but the media star's most iconic characteristic is probably the melodramatic weeping he... More
Conde Nast closing Gourmet, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Cookie
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 5, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Not Cookie! More
Measuring the Effect of Obama’s Health Care Speech
By Greg Marx Oct 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM
At his blog, Brendan Nyhan takes a look at whether Obama’s big health care speech of a month ago shifted... More
Reporter at Sea-Sick
By Alexandra Fenwick Oct 2, 2009 at 04:04 PM
File this under newspaper promotional contests that make us feel sick to our stomach. USA Today is teaming up with... More
Grantham Prize Seminar To Honor Air Pollution Series
By Curtis Brainard Oct 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Anybody in or around Washington, D.C. on Monday should check out the fourth annual Grantham Prize Seminar on the State... More
“Chicago Is Out? Chicago Is Out?”
By Megan Garber Oct 2, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Yowza. Watch as CNN's Tony Harris, Dispassionate Information Purveyor, gets the news that Chicago has not only not won the... More
Headline of the Day
By Megan Garber Oct 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Without further comment: "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Yo-Yo Ma" More
WaPo to Partner with Bloomberg for Global News Service
By Megan Garber Oct 2, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Hot on the heels of news that CBS News and GlobalPost will be pairing up to cover the world beyond... More
“I wouldn’t have known right away that it was your fifth drink…”
By Clint Hendler Oct 2, 2009 at 09:57 AM
So said Slate editor Jacob Weisberg upon encountering a several sheets-to-the-wind DoubleX staff in the midst of their experiment to... More
‘Regional Experts’ Not Just Missing from Media
By Greg Marx Oct 1, 2009 at 03:46 PM
Elsewhere on the CJR site today, Michael Massing concludes his take-down of the latest Iran-related coverage with a call for... More
A win against Cheney secrecy
By Clint Hendler Oct 1, 2009 at 01:38 PM
Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington has notched another win in its battle to preserve and expand the reach... More
Obama Administration Opposing Shield Law
By Clint Hendler Oct 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Disappointing news today from the New York Times’s Charlie Savage: The Obama administration has told lawmakers that it opposes legislation... More
India and Pakistan, Best of Buddies
By Greg Marx Sep 30, 2009 at 04:14 PM
The New York Times’s long, deeply-reported front-page story on the continuing strength of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group responsible for... 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”
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A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
