United States Project
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
Protecting the polls in North Carolina
As voter fraud allegations swirl, North Carolinians need deep, focused reporting
By Andria Krewson Oct 2, 2012 at 11:00 AM
NORTH CAROLINA — While North Carolina may not be “that important to the electoral math” of the presidential race, according... More
The word on the street: Divided
Massachusetts voters talk about Medicare, and their Senate race
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 1, 2012 at 03:26 PM
Last week I journeyed up to New England to see what voters thought of the debate over Medicare, for another... More
The Oklahoman distributes a hit piece on Obama
Do a new owner’s deep pockets require a “trade-off”?
By Erika Fry Sep 28, 2012 at 05:12 PM
On September 20, The Washington Examiner, one of DC’s conservative newspapers, published “The Obama You Don’t Know,” a 10-part “Special... More
Pinning down Obama on Social Security
Where exactly does he stand?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Liberals took comfort in the president’s speech to the AARP Friday when he promised to defend Social Security. But his... More
As campaigns cross Ohio, Romney stops to talk
Blade seeks tax plan clarity, while Plain Dealer revisits coal policy, auto bailout
By T.C. Brown Sep 28, 2012 at 06:50 AM
OHIO — Both presidential campaigns spent some of this week crawling across the Buckeye State, at one point campaigning within... More
In Florida, a poll grabs headlines—and raises questions
The situation for the GOP may not be as dire as Quinnipiac’s results suggest
By Brian E. Crowley Sep 27, 2012 at 04:05 PM
FLORIDA — Supporters of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney woke up to some grim news Wednesday. According to a poll... More
The Ad Wars: Super PACs not super? Not so fast
The Journal’s flawed logic on page one
By Sasha Chavkin Sep 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM
On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reached a bold conclusion on one of the central debates of the 2012 elections:... More
A clamor for air time in the Silver State
Chris Roman, GM of four Spanish-language TV stations in Nevada, on the messaging frenzy
By Jay Jones Sep 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM
NEVADA — In the Silver State, Chris Roman’s audience is being wooed and pursued. Roman is the general manager... More
How the phantom of ‘socialized medicine’ came to be
A Laurel to The New Yorker for exploring the roots of modern political consulting
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Jill Lepore deserves a Laurel for her engrossing tale of how political communications came to be so toxic. In... 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.
