United States Project
Keeping it chronic
Local coverage explores ways to keep ‘super-users’ out of the hospital, driving costs down and outcomes up
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont May 2, 2013 at 03:10 PM
The emergency department (ED) is not only the most inappropriate and expensive place to deliver primary healthcare, it's a gateway... More
Untangling Obamacare: Rate shock!?
Understanding the direction of insurance premiums is not easy, let alone explaining it. But…
By Trudy Lieberman May 1, 2013 at 02:28 PM
Covering Obamacare poses big challenges for journalists, from piercing government spin and deciphering GOP rhetoric to unraveling and simplifying... More
Honey, I shrank the IRS
The administration wants more money for tax-law enforcement. Let’s ask why
By David Cay Johnston Apr 30, 2013 at 02:52 PM
Last week, we pointed to a piece of news that we have yet to read or hear from most... More
Covering ‘The American Presidency’
Fiction vs. reality in coverage of the White House
By Brendan Nyhan Apr 30, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In Hollywood and the accounts of many of the nation's leading journalists, events in Washington revolve around the president, who... More
Four Corners coverage: immigration reform
The Arizona Republic raises issues absent in most of this region’s reporting—but there are opportunities for everyone to do more
By Joel Campbell Apr 29, 2013 at 02:50 PM
PROVO, UT -- Journalists in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah have raised vital policy, political, and accountability issues as... More
A laurel to Zahira Torres and the El Paso Times
Dogged investigative work exposed a test-score scandal that harmed students
By Richard Parker Apr 26, 2013 at 11:52 AM
AUSTIN, TX -- In El Paso, the former school superintendent is now in prison, the Justice Department is investigating,... More
CPI staffs up to follow the money at the state level
New hires join center’s “Consider the Source” project
By Peter Sterne Apr 25, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In the wake of the Citizens United case and other court rulings, there's an unprecedented amount of money sloshing around... More
The Chained CPI in people terms
A laurel to The New York Times’s Tara Siegel Bernard
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 24, 2013 at 10:55 AM
At last comes a story in a major news outlet that explains in people terms what exactly the Chained... More
The big three miss a tax story
The IRS is furloughing workers. For a lot of reasons, that’s news
By David Cay Johnston Apr 23, 2013 at 02:51 PM
Okay, it was a big news week. There was the tragedy in Boston. In West, TX, too. And yes, there... More
Right fast in Raleigh
With an aggressive GOP agenda quickly reshaping North Carolina, the press must explain how it happened and what it could mean
By Corey Hutchins Apr 23, 2013 at 11:00 AM
COLUMBIA, SC ― Maybe you've seen some of the eye-catching headlines bouncing out of North Carolina's capitol over the last... More
The coming retirement-security crisis: let’s get real
A Laurel to Michael Lind for trying to start the conversation
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bravo to Michael Lind, writing for Salon, for daring to challenge media conventional wisdom--that the country can no longer... More
Making ‘investigative a priority’ in south Florida
How the Sun Sentinel assembled a Pulitzer-worthy “I Team” in the middle of Hurricane Tribune
By Adam Weinstein Apr 22, 2013 at 03:15 PM
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- "I've been here before," I told the assistant as she picked me up at the elevator... More
The Koch brothers’ media investment [UPDATED]
They are maneuvering to buy the Tribune chain. A look at Watchdog.org gives some clues about what that might mean
By Sasha Chavkin Apr 22, 2013 at 02:59 PM
On Sunday, a front-page story in The New York Times described the efforts of Charles and David Koch,... More
In defense of scoops
Their reputation took a beating in Boston, but there are reasons to value the news scoop, and they go beyond ego and institutional pride
By Bill Grueskin Apr 22, 2013 at 11:37 AM
The press services standardize the main events; it is only once in a while that a great scoop is... More
Fast and wrong beats slow and right
The incentives for speed-induced misinformation in Boston bombings coverage
By Brendan Nyhan Apr 22, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Breaking news addicts were glued to their screens last week as developments in the Boston bombings case flooded cable news... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
