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What’s a trillion, anyway?
How to make scary budget numbers meaningful
By David Cay Johnston Jan 8, 2013 at 03:00 PM
Throughout the weeks of intense coverage over the scheduled end of the Bush income tax cuts and the Obama payroll... More
Medicare Uncovered: the pain from ‘skin in the game’
A report puts a hole in the plan to make people pay more
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM
This is the first of a series of occasional "Medicare Uncovered" posts that will look at how the media are... More
How right is the (1st round of) CW about 2012?
As the retrospectives roll in, a debate unfolds about Obama’s early ads
By Walter Shapiro Jan 4, 2013 at 03:55 PM
Theodore White’s The Making of the President 1960 was published in hardcover in July 1961, a breakneck pace in an... More
If you were John Boehner, you’d cry too
Why journalists should put the struggles of the House speaker in a larger context
By Brendan Nyhan Jan 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
On Thursday, John Boehner survived some conservative defections to narrowly win re-election as Speaker of the House, prompting a predictable... More
Are the fiscal fights a bore?
Not to those who dig
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM
One of the more telling stories to emerge during the holidays was Politico’s candid take on coverage of the fiscal... More
The money behind the fiscal cliff hardliners
Plan B opponents drew major support from outside groups. What does that mean?
By Sasha Chavkin Jan 3, 2013 at 03:00 PM
The fiscal cliff deal reached on Tuesday reflects a depressing new routine in Washington, DC: the federal government lurching from... More
Must-reads of 2012: politics
What you should have read (in case you didn’t)
By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx Dec 26, 2012 at 06:50 AM
As 2012 draws to a close, CJR writers brainstormed the year's best reads in their beats. From New York magazine,... More
A political documentary that defies convention
How’s Your News? takes a skewed perspective on Campaign 2012
By Justin Peters Dec 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
It’s the second-to-last day of the 2012 Republican National Convention, and the How’s Your News? news team has Michele... More
Faces Congress doesn’t see
The “chained CPI” debate needs to step out of wonkland
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This week The Washington Post reported results from its December poll with ABC, which took the public pulse on a... More
How to fix the media ownership debate
A modest proposal for harnessing mergers
to boost local reporting
By Steven Waldman Dec 20, 2012 at 02:53 PM
The debate over “who owns the media” is heating up again, and has already become stuck in a bit of... More
The least transparent Senators?
A counterintuitive campaign finance story doesn’t add up
By Sasha Chavkin Dec 20, 2012 at 02:50 PM
It seemed like a startling and politically powerful story. I was looking through campaign finance disclosures, and came upon a... More
Beware Green Lantern thinking in gun policy coverage
The president isn’t as powerful as you think
By Brendan Nyhan Dec 20, 2012 at 11:24 AM
In a riff inspired by the blogger Matthew Yglesias a few years ago, I proposed what I called the Green... More
Needed: Sherpas to guide us through fiscal cliff panic
No one wants to hike middle-class rates, so why does some coverage pretend they might rise?
By Walter Shapiro Dec 19, 2012 at 03:30 PM
The Tax Policy Center—a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution—has a lineage that in Washington think... More
Meet the Debt Fixers
A laurel to New York magazine
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM
For weeks on end the dominant financial story has been: (A) the consequences of falling off the fiscal cliff;... More
The media discover the ‘chained CPI’
And the more they dig, the rougher it looks
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 17, 2012 at 02:52 PM
Except for Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, and a few stray media outlets here and there—The Providence Journal, The... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
