A journalism student’s video documentary took on the issue of governmental press manipulation in Brazil.

The splash made by The Washington Post’s much-discussed rehash of the Chandra Levy murder case rippled far beyond the thirteen days of the series’ publication, though perhaps not in the way WaPo executive editor Leonard Downie might have hoped. Bloggers and ombudspersons alike generally concluded that the series, though gripping, really wasn’t worth all the […]

After reading today’s New York Times editorial about the recent study implicating prescription pills as a way to eliminate child obesity, I noticed the most popular Times articles this morning: It would seem that readers have a case of the munchies (see the first, second, sixth and eighth most read), not to mention an unhealthy […]

The media’s quest to convince Americans that gas is "expensive"

The press switches from environmental exigency to exhaustion

Breaking news: The six percent advantage that Senator McCain enjoys among suburban white women has nothing to do with the relative wealth of these voters, but is based instead on the fact that women are “low hanging fruit” in the political process. If Senator Obama actually wants to “win big,” he’s really going to need […]

Outlets miss the holes in McCain’s Russia rhetoric

As if the New York Times didn’t deem a 12-page memoir-slash-essay in Sunday’s magazine enough space for Emily Gould’s pressing confessions and innermost feelings (see my colleague Megan’s take on the piece

Over wet umbrellas and under the echo of cell phones, Terry Gross, long-time host of Fresh Air on NPR, imparted some characteristically straightforward remarks at the commencement ceremony at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism yesterday. The recipient of the 2008 Columbia Journalism Award sampled sound clips from some of her best known and most colorful […]