United States Project
A good AP follow-up on North Carolina’s ‘sweepstakes’ story
In the face of crackdowns, an industry with deep pockets refuses to go away
By Greg Marx Mar 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In his post yesterday about what North Carolina reporters can learn from their South Carolina colleagues about covering the video... More
Tar Heel reporters can look south for lessons on ‘sweepstakes’ story
Says The State’s Cindi Ross Scoppe: “We fell into the trap of I already said that.”
By Corey Hutchins Mar 28, 2013 at 03:15 PM
COLUMBIA, SC -- North Carolina's Republican governor, Pat McCrory, this week found himself giving back campaign contributions tied to so-called... More
Flooding the apathy zone
The Los Angeles Times sends a team of reporters and a star columnist to battle civic disengagement, with impressive results—even if turnout was only 16 percent
By John Mecklin Mar 27, 2013 at 03:00 PM
SANTA BARBARA, CA -- Let's get an understatement out of the way: Your average citizen of Los Angeles is not... More
The great hospital ratings derby—a second look
A laurel to Kaiser Health News
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Bravo for Jordan Rau, the author of a piece produced by Kaiser Health News, that at last untangles the... More
Exchange Watch: Navigating the insurance jungle
How to cover your local healthcare exchange: a primer
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 26, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Not surprisingly, the topic of the new Obamacare state insurance exchanges--called Health Insurance Marketplaces by the feds--came up at a... More
The trouble with Torrington
A small-town paper calls out minors who bully a rape victim online. Is that fair game?
By Mariah Blake Mar 25, 2013 at 03:15 PM
In some ways, the Torrington, CT case that ricocheted through the press last week looks a lot like the ugly... More
About those ‘Glory Days of American Journalism’
Matthew Yglesias retreats from his argument, but not far enough. He forgot state and local reporting.
By Steven Waldman Mar 25, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Matt Yglesias has more or less conceded that there is a flaw in his argument--that we are living in the... More
The most political science-friendly reporter in America
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert takes an unusual approach to covering politics
By Brendan Nyhan Mar 25, 2013 at 06:50 AM
One of the most encouraging trends in journalism over the past few years has been the tentative embrace of political... More
Hiking America’s food deserts
The Food Police (part 2): Tools for adding context to stories about the soda-ban battle, and other tales of nutrition
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Mar 22, 2013 at 02:57 PM
This is the second installment in an occasional series that will examine media coverage of public initiatives aimed at... More
A close watch on Scott Walker’s jobs pledge
For PolitiFact Wisconsin’s “Walk-o-meter,” the key innovation is sustained attention
By Anna Clark Mar 21, 2013 at 02:50 PM
DETROIT, MI -- When Scott Walker campaigned to become the governor of Wisconsin in 2010, there was one promise that... More
Medicare Uncovered: Smoke signals from Fox News Sunday
You might want to watch your wallet: Dems and the GOP hint they are close on cuts
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 21, 2013 at 11:09 AM
There was no mistaking the message that two members of the Senate sent forth Sunday morning. In an interview on... More
Greedy Geezers, redux
Trudy Lieberman on WBUR
By Mike Hoyt Mar 21, 2013 at 09:20 AM
Lately parts of the press have been helping spread the idea that the young and the old in America... More
Boehner’s overlooked acknowledgment
The Speaker—and Paul Ryan—say we don’t have an immediate debt crisis. Isn’t that news?
By David Cay Johnston Mar 20, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Over the past weekend, there was actually some news made on the Sunday morning talk shows for a change. Two... More
The GOP updates its media roadmap
In 2014 and 2016, changing strategies present new story lines
By Sasha Chavkin Mar 20, 2013 at 10:58 AM
On Monday, the Republican National Committee released a sweeping postmortem of the party's 2012 election losses and called for... More
Meet the people who know Texas politics
The newspaper columnists of the Lone Star state
By Richard Parker Mar 19, 2013 at 03:14 PM
AUSTIN, TX--When you think about newspaper columnists and the central role they've played in covering American politics, you wind up... 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.
