United States Project
In Michigan, a look back on the 2012 campaign
A veteran journalist and a young reporter talk about lessons learned
By Anna Clark Nov 23, 2012 at 10:45 AM
MICHIGAN — It was hard. That’s how Marisa Schultz, political reporter for The Detroit News, sums up the experience of... More
Key stories in the Keystone State
Four issues Pennsylvania’s political press should stay on
By Ken Knelly Nov 20, 2012 at 04:00 PM
PENNSYLVANIA — Political reporters and commentators here will continue to ponder, as the Philadelphia Inquirer did on November 9, Pennsylvania’s... More
Papa John’s Pizza and the business backlash
The real story: how some employers are still working to undermine Obamacare
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 20, 2012 at 11:15 AM
The media have latched onto the story of John Schnatter. That’s the John of Papa John’s Pizza, a CEO with... More
Election reflections from the Silver State
Las Vegas Sun political editor Anjeanette Damon wants face time with presidential candidates, more time with voters
By Jay Jones Nov 19, 2012 at 02:50 PM
NEVADA — Midway through the election cycle just completed, longtime Nevada political writer and TV analyst Anjeanette Damon got... More
Hope and change in unlikely places
Three cheers for campaign coverage from BuzzFeed and the Los Angeles Times
By Walter Shapiro Nov 16, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Channeling the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado, I’ve got a little list of those parts of 2012 coverage that... More
An election post-mortem on Medicare coverage
Coverage? Yes. Guidance? Not so much
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 15, 2012 at 01:12 PM
In mid-August, when Paul Ryan burst on the scene with his voucher scheme for Medicare, the 47-year old program suddenly... More
Little Havana turns blue (or maybe not)
Choose-your-own-poll-number reporting on the Cuban-American vote
By Brian E. Crowley Nov 14, 2012 at 02:50 PM
FLORIDA — Somehow the Florida election is beginning to feel a bit like an episode from the old I Love... More
Predictable in retrospect
The dangers of hindsight bias in election postmortems
By Brendan Nyhan Nov 13, 2012 at 02:55 PM
The media has undergone a strange change of mindset. Immediately before last Tuesday's election, many reporters and commentators ignored or... More
Four stories to follow in Virginia
What the Commonwealth’s political reporters should focus on now
By Tharon Giddens Nov 13, 2012 at 02:50 PM
VIRGINIA — Election Day has come and gone, leaving many vital story threads for Virginia’s political reporters to continue to... More
What happened, anyway?
The election may be over, but the self-protective spin is not
By Walter Shapiro Nov 13, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Shortly after 11 p.m. (Eastern) on Election Night—with the polls still open only in Alaska—Mitt Romney aides were pleading with... More
A dart to Yahoo Finance
For utterly confusing its readers about Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM
By now we’re accustomed to weak reporting about Social Security, but a piece on Yahoo Finance, part of its... More
The fiscal whatchamacallit
Media’s embrace of “fiscal cliff” obscures the real story about budget negotiations
By Greg Marx Nov 9, 2012 at 11:57 AM
With Election Day behind us, all of Washington is suddenly focused on a looming issue that drew little notice during... More
An Ohio election special causes controversy
TPM flags some anti-Obama programming on Sinclair stations
By T.C. Brown Nov 8, 2012 at 03:12 PM
OHIO — A controversial election eve special that aired twice Monday night on the local ABC affiliate in Columbus triggered... More
The Ad Wars: Was outside money futile?
After Election Day, the press seizes on a new conventional wisdom
By Sasha Chavkin Nov 8, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Throughout the 2012 campaign, dozens of reporters and advocates kept a close eye on the flood of outside money that... More
Digital innovation on election night: a report
From CJR and Tow Center’s “meta newsroom”
By Mike Hoyt Nov 7, 2012 at 03:16 PM
About as digital as most Americans get on election night is to operate the channel clicker. But that is steadily... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
