United States Project
Following up on a promise of jobs
The Salisbury Post in North Carolina talks to manufacturing workers still waiting on a call back to work
By Andria Krewson Aug 29, 2012 at 03:00 PM
NORTH CAROLINA — Kudos to the scrappy little Salisbury Post in Salisbury, North Carolina, for its story Sunday detailing the... More
A celebration of access in Tampa
Conventions are about getting in to the place worth being
By Justin Peters Aug 29, 2012 at 11:00 AM
TAMPA — It only took me two minutes to get kicked out of Liberty Plaza. Liberty Plaza, sponsored by various... More
It’s morning in the Tampa Convention Center
Swing States Project’s Florida correspondent takes it all in
By Brian E. Crowley Aug 28, 2012 at 03:55 PM
TAMPA — In a large room, just off the main floor of the Tampa Convention Center, there are about 100... More
Conventions: A great learning opportunity for voters
Why the debate over a lack of news misses the point
By Brendan Nyhan Aug 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Every four years, the two presidential candidates do battle in a series of high-stakes televised events that could shape the... More
In defense of convention coverage
Thoughts from a veteran political reporter who still gets butterflies
By Walter Shapiro Aug 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM
For me, the malady known as Convention Anxiety is a quadrennial affliction that begins around March of every presidential election... More
Rethinking objectivity: a recall case
An intern gets canned in Wisconsin because she signed a petition. Why?
By Kathleen Bartzen Culver Aug 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM
As partisan activity and open hostility climbed toward their peak in Wisconsin’s recent recall election, one of my students lost... More
Tampa Bay Times’s convention-eve welcome
The paper’s Sunday piece is strong (cringe-making Florida boosterism aside)
By Brian E. Crowley Aug 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
TAMPA — Wince. That was my first reaction as I started to read a Sunday story about the Republican National... More
Michigan media on Romney’s birth certificate ‘joke’ (UPDATED)
Some news outlets let it slide—unexplained, unchallenged
By Anna Clark Aug 24, 2012 at 05:40 PM
MICHIGAN — Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan brought the Republican presidential ticket to Commerce, Michigan today in an event billed... More
A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times
She begins to X-ray the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 04:04 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times for reporting the increasing skepticism in health... More
The word on the street: apprehensive
Listening to voters talk about Medicare in St. Louis
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM
The idea of privatizing Medicare is not winning popularity contests with voters. A Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday found... More
Backstory: the reporter who interviewed Akin
The Jaco Report reconsiders the moment
By Mike Hoyt Aug 23, 2012 at 11:46 AM
As transitions go, it was pretty jagged, a classic of the “moving right along” category. Answering a question about abortion... More
Medicare and the $716 billion bogeyman
Will a new version of a half-truth work for the GOP?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM
It’s been hard to escape from Medicare in the 11 days since Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan burst into the news... More
Last week’s GOP local TV blitz
What did candidates—and viewers—get from it?
By Tharon Giddens Aug 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM
VIRGINIA — The word “exclusive” is routinely devalued in broadcast political reporting and last week was no exception. Republicans Mitt... More
‘That muddy water’ of fairness
With “Line of Attack,” Sun evaluates “legit,” “laughable” campaign claims
By Jay Jones Aug 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM
NEVADA — I can’t recall who came up with the idea of a digital video recorder that automatically skips past... More
What makes Mitt tick?
We need more tick-tock from the press pack about why Romney chose Paul Ryan
By Walter Shapiro Aug 20, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The faster-than-a-tweet, fleeter-than-a-sound-bite pace of the presidential campaign upends our basic conceptions of time and duration. It is disconcerting to... 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.
