United States Project
Time to head to the track
With voting underway, there’s nothing wrong with providing the horse race coverage readers crave
By Walter Shapiro Oct 11, 2012 at 11:00 AM
DES MOINES — These days, the phrase “horse-race journalism” is often accompanied by the same sneering tone that 1950s intellectuals... More
Ask Romney This: What will you do about
the Middle East?
Vague slogans won’t do the job. What about specifics?
By Lawrence Pintak Oct 10, 2012 at 11:47 AM
Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
Healthcare—reform in Great Britain vs. the USA:
part two
A conversation between CJR’s Trudy Lieberman and Chris Smyth, health reporter for The Times of London
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM
A while back Trudy Lieberman sat down with Chris Smyth, the health correspondent for The Times of London, who was... More
Healthcare in Great Britain vs. healthcare in the USA: part one
A conversation with Chris Smyth, health reporter for The Times of London
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 9, 2012 at 07:00 AM
Not long ago I sat down with Chris Smyth, a health journalist for The Times of London, who was traveling... More
The debate: Some healthcare ‘facts’ that
shouldn’t stand
Reporters did good fact checking, but also left falsehoods on the table
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 8, 2012 at 03:00 PM
There was no shortage of media fact checking after last week’s presidential debate, much of it focused on healthcare, much... More
Covering the role of coal in Virginia
Coal is central to the campaign message war and money story here—but reporting has not kept up
By Tharon Giddens Oct 8, 2012 at 03:00 PM
VIRGINIA — Mitt Romney likes coal. A lot. And the coal industry in Virginia likes Romney back. Unfortunately, there’s not... More
Enabling the jobs report conspiracy theory
The consequences of careless coverage of Friday’s unemployment numbers
By Brendan Nyhan Oct 8, 2012 at 12:15 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — Media ethics pop quiz: When conspiracy theories started circulating on Twitter claiming that Friday's jobs report had... More
The Ad Wars: The strange silence on foreign policy
In presidential campaign ads, there have been 22 mentions of jobs for every reference to Iraq and Afghanistan wars
By Sasha Chavkin Oct 8, 2012 at 10:45 AM
In past elections, the critical threshold for presidential candidates was the commander-in-chief test: whether Americans felt they could trust them... More
How to cover the horse race?
Ohio’s press-watchers weigh in on the contest between campaigns and reporters
By T.C. Brown Oct 5, 2012 at 03:00 PM
OHIO — With just a month to go before the election, the presidential campaigns are in the homestretch, an apt... More
Ask Obama This: Where’s your short-term jobs plan?
A missed chance at the debate creates an important opportunity for reporters on the trail
By Greg Marx Oct 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Over the final month of the campaign, CJR will run a series of posts under the headline “Ask Obama This”... More
The Ad Wars: From every source, a different number
What should reporters do to provide the best information to their audience?
By Sasha Chavkin Oct 4, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Tracking campaign ads in the 2012 elections is no easy feat. Between the flurry of spots from the Obama and... More
Medicare costs: Are electronic records the solution—or the problem?
A Laurel to the Center for Public Integrity for an expose on “upcoding”
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Electronic billing has been promoted as a big cost savings for healthcare. But is it? The Center for Public... More
Breaking the pack journalism paradigm
What would happen if reporters covered debates without access to the spin?
By Brendan Nyhan Oct 3, 2012 at 11:10 AM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — As tonight's presidential debate approaches, the chattering classes are pondering whether it will change the dynamics of... More
Debate advice: Turn off Twitter
To hear like a voter you have to listen
By Walter Shapiro Oct 3, 2012 at 06:55 AM
As we get ready for the Demolition Derby in Denver (aka the Mile High Mud Wrestle), I want to return... More
Michigan media on voter fraud
The story in the state so far—and what’s missing from it
By Anna Clark Oct 2, 2012 at 03:00 PM
MICHIGAN — In Michigan, the political landscape tends to be divided by—well, by landscape. East and West, rural and urban,... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
