United States Project
A laurel to Time’s ‘Battleland’ blog
Winslow Wheeler’s posts show how the Pentagon uses its own inflation adjuster to make the case for more spending
By David Cay Johnston Jul 17, 2013 at 02:50 PM
The growth in the Pentagon budget over time is even greater than you think--and the scale of the increase... More
When ‘he said,’ ‘she said’ is dangerous
Media errs in giving “balanced” coverage to McCarthy’s discredited views
By Brendan Nyhan Jul 16, 2013 at 02:15 PM
ABC's announcement yesterday that actress/comedian Jenny McCarthy will become a co-host of The View brought forth a torrent of condemnation... More
Exchange Watch: No drama in Vermont’s insurance rates
The AP reported the Green Mountain State’s rate announcement, but not the broader story
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 16, 2013 at 11:15 AM
Last week, Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board, an independent body created by the legislature to approve benefit plans and rates... More
Michigan’s ‘free-market’ media machine
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a major player in state media. What to make of it?
By Anna Clark Jul 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
DETROIT, MI -- In a time of upheaval for both politics and media, state-level think tanks sit at a peculiar... More
Beyond San Onofre’s closure
The LA Times and U-T San Diego thoroughly covered the local nuclear power plant’s closing, but the wider energy story is still waiting to be told
By John Mecklin Jul 15, 2013 at 03:00 PM
SANTA BARBARA, CA -- Nuclear power plants are complex, interdependent systems of systems, and the state and federal bureaucracies that... More
Back to the basics on immigration
With reform push stalled, it’s time to focus on fundamentals—and explore how the issue looks from across the border
By Richard Parker Jul 12, 2013 at 03:00 PM
AUSTIN, TX -- As Congress careens toward its annual August recess, the fate of immigration reform is unresolved. House Republicans... More
The Obamacare ad wars begin
An opening salvo from conservatives scores low on honesty, and some reporters have noticed
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 11, 2013 at 03:14 PM
Competition for the hearts and minds of the voters in 2014 has begun with a bang--the opening salvo in... More
Covering Obamacare: a bit of bad advice
Explaining how to get insurance? Yes, please. Enrolling people? Not your job
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 9, 2013 at 03:06 PM
Last week a story appeared on the website of the Association of Health Care Journalists that reported on a... More
Surprise? Employer mandate delayed
A laurel to Politico for strong coverage of the latest plot twist in the healthcare reform story
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The Obama administration's just-before-July 4 surprise--postponing for a year the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate--generated a ton of news... More
What the Koch brothers’ spending tells us
The Investigative Reporting Workshop’s in-depth report, “The Koch Club,” underscores a shift in political giving
By Sasha Chavkin Jul 8, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Few political donors have drawn greater scrutiny than the Koch brothers, the chemical manufacturing moguls whose lucrative support of conservative... More
Exchange Watch: Ohio insurance redux
A shout-out to The Plain Dealer
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 3, 2013 at 12:53 PM
A few weeks ago, I wrote that the Ohio press--as well as some writers for national outlets--had fallen for the... More
Fifty worst charities: a reporters’ resource
A Laurel to the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting for a report that other journalists can put to work
By Susannah Nesmith Jul 3, 2013 at 12:06 PM
An impressive investigation by the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting identified 50 charities around the... More
Assignment Desk: Four stories on the Western energy beat
What’s the future of coal? What about water? And is that really a united front?
By Joel Campbell Jul 3, 2013 at 11:50 AM
PROVO, UT -- At a posh resort near Park City last weekend, the chief executives of seven Western states gathered... More
Last week Texas, this week North Carolina?
When NC GOP legislators quietly added abortion restrictions to a bill banning Sharia Law, Raleigh’s WRAL was (and is) on it
By Corey Hutchins Jul 3, 2013 at 11:30 AM
COLUMBIA, SC -- Last night, Senate Republicans in North Carolina stunned their Democratic colleagues--and observers and media--when they quietly tacked... More
Obamacare’s Forgotten Faces
The Medicaid debacle and other tales
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 2, 2013 at 02:55 PM
To their credit, some members of the media have begun examining the plight of those who will still be... 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”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
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.
