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David Brooks’s Afghanistan Straw Man
By Greg Marx Sep 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM
In a Campaign Desk piece today, I talk about the reflexive hawkishness of various big-deal think tanks and op-ed columnists... More
FOIA Hearing Underway
By Clint Hendler Sep 30, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Senator Patrick Leahy has just kicked off a hearing on the status of the Freedom of Information Act, which is... More
Classification policy draft leaked
By Clint Hendler Sep 29, 2009 at 04:44 PM
Secrecy watcher Steven Aftergood has obtained a draft version of the Obama administration’s new executive order tinkering with the nation’s... More
One Possible Contestant for the Post
By Clint Hendler Sep 29, 2009 at 12:59 PM
There’s a lot to say about the Washington Post’s just announced contest, “America’s Next Great Pundit.” The set-up is pretty... More
“Get off Their Asses and Get Back to Talking to Real People”
By Megan Garber Sep 29, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Over at The Huffington Post, Jason Linkins turns in a fantastic Q&A with Dale Maharidge, the Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and... More
Talese: “The Magazine Piece Is Not a Work of Art Anymore”
By Megan Garber Sep 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Leave it to Gay Talese to find a new angle on an old story. In a video for the Big... More
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”
By Clint Hendler Sep 28, 2009 at 05:20 PM
I’m sorry I missed this the first time around, but Chris Cato, a reporter for Channel 7, a CBS affiliate... More
“So, Keep Your Guns, and Buy More Guns…”
By Megan Garber Sep 28, 2009 at 05:06 PM
Think Progress's Lee Fang offers a disturbing cautionary tale: a distillation of the frayed edges of the ridiculous rhetoric that... More
Poll Lancing
By Megan Garber Sep 28, 2009 at 04:39 PM
So you may have heard, today, about the existence of troubling poll previously making its way around Facebook--one that asked,... More
Green Rankings a Means, Not an End For Journalists
By Curtis Brainard Sep 28, 2009 at 04:24 PM
Are you invested in a dirty company? If you work for the state of New York and plan to draw... More
Berlusconi and Press Freedom, Petition Edition
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 28, 2009 at 03:19 PM
La Repubblica, Italy's second-largest newspaper, was sued for defamation earlier this summer by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for repeatedly... More
CBS goes GlobalPost-al
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 28, 2009 at 02:48 PM
GlobalPost and CBS plan to make beautiful news together, according to this story by David Carr in today's New York... More
On the NYT’s opinion media monitor
By Greg Marx Sep 28, 2009 at 02:31 PM
As noted by Michael Calderone and others, NYT ombudsman Clark Hoyt reported in his Sunday column that, in the wake... More
Gang Land Entrepreneur
By Alexandra Fenwick Sep 28, 2009 at 01:47 PM
In a feature story in yesterday's Washington Post, Jerry Capeci's subscription-only "Gang Land" Web site is held up as a... More
Two-Ply Puns
By Megan Garber Sep 28, 2009 at 09:06 AM
See if you can find the many puns embedded in the following Washington Post headline, on environmentalists' challenge to toilet... 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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Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
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The NYT shows us why
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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.
