Monthly Archive

December 2008

• The Audit

  Audit Rewind: Dean Starkman’s Best of 2008 A roundup of some of his favorites from 2008

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 31, 2008 12:13 AM

• Behind the News, Campaign Desk

  Best of 2008: Megan Garber Garber picks her top stories from 2008

  By Megan Garber

  December 30, 2008 12:09 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Yes, He Does

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 30, 2008 09:20 AM

• The Kicker

  Governor, Grandmother

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 29, 2008 11:27 PM

• The Audit

  Audit Rewind: Ryan Chittum’s Best of 2008 Looking back at the year that was in business journalism

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 29, 2008 10:44 PM

• The Kicker

  Kennedy (Huffs)

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 29, 2008 08:53 PM

• Behind the News, Campaign Desk

  Best of 2008: Clint Hendler Hendler picks his top stories from 2008

  By Clint Hendler

  December 29, 2008 12:17 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Best of 2008: Liz Cox Barrett’s Picks Barrett picks her top stories from 2008

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 26, 2008 05:18 PM

• The Audit

  In the Crisis, the Journal Falls Short The newspaper is missing the moment

  By Dean Starkman

  December 24, 2008 10:15 AM Comments (8)

• Campaign Desk, Full Court Press

  Winners & Sinners Kaiser on Lesley Stahl, Barney Frank, Ruth Marcus, and others

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 23, 2008 05:47 PM Comments (6)

• Behind the News

  Best of 2008: CJR’s Ten Most Popular Stories CJR's ten most popular stories from 2008

  By The Editors

  December 23, 2008 05:31 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Beyond Two Percent To repeat: we need more—and more extensive—coverage of the Iraq war

  By Megan Garber

  December 23, 2008 05:20 PM

• The Kicker

  God Bless Us, Every Ten

  By Megan Garber

  December 23, 2008 04:39 PM

• The Kicker

  Beauty, in the Eye of the Reporter

  By Katia Bachko

  December 23, 2008 03:22 PM

• Behind the News, Events

  Consumer Revolution on the Web: Overview A comprehensive overview of CJR's recent consumer reporting conference

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 23, 2008 03:03 PM

• Audio, Events

  The New Age of Citizen Journalism Audio of the Jarvis/Darnton panel on citizen journalism

  By The Editors

  December 23, 2008 02:37 PM Comments (2)

• Audio, Events

  Are Consumers the Right Watchdogs? Audio of the panel discussion on amateur vs. professional consumer reporting

  By The Editors

  December 23, 2008 02:31 PM Comments (3)

• Audio, Events

  David Pogue: A Reviewer Reviews the Users Audio of the NYT columnist's keynote at CJR's recent consumer reporting conference

  By The Editors

  December 23, 2008 02:25 PM

• Behind the News

  Books for a Hard Season, Revisited A reader-recommended list of books for journalists

  By The Editors

  December 23, 2008 01:02 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  Some Things Borrowed

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 23, 2008 12:47 PM

• The Kicker

  Dispatches From Across the Pond

  By Katia Bachko

  December 23, 2008 11:40 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Report from the Tupperware Circuit A laurel to the Marion (Ohio) Star

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 23, 2008 11:22 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  “Beach Body”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 23, 2008 10:52 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  OTS Mess Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 23, 2008 10:00 AM

• The Kicker

  Morning Joe’s Three “No’s”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 23, 2008 09:57 AM

• The Kicker

  CPJ: Iraq Still “Deadliest Nation For Press”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 23, 2008 09:25 AM

• Review

  Absolutely Sensational! The rise and fall and rise of the tabloid press

  By Andie Tucher

  December 23, 2008 09:00 AM

• The Audit

  Tracing Wall Street’s WMDs

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 23, 2008 08:44 AM Comments (4)

• The Kicker

  Schieffer’s “Facelift Gone Wacko…”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 04:45 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Caroline, or Change Remember when "Caroline Kennedy" was "Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg"?

  By Megan Garber

  December 22, 2008 04:15 PM Comments (12)

• Language Corner

  Kicking the Can Congress describes its take on an auto bailout

  By Merrill Perlman

  December 22, 2008 03:53 PM

• The Kicker

  NYT Is Sorry. Again. For Botched Kennedy Coverage

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 03:50 PM

• Behind the News

  Reporting the Drug War LAT’s commendable multimedia effort on Mexico’s drug war

  By Jane Kim

  December 22, 2008 03:42 PM

• The Kicker

  Obamas-In-Hawaii Headlines

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 03:11 PM

• The Audit

  Bush Smacks Back at NYT Story

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 22, 2008 02:32 PM Comments (8)

• The Kicker, The Observatory

  The Year in Science Journalism

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 22, 2008 01:54 PM

• The Observatory

  Science Groups Protest CNN Cuts CASW, NASW, SEJ, and WFSJ issue first-ever joint letter

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 22, 2008 01:36 PM Comments (15)

• The Kicker

  Labash on LeDuff

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 01:03 PM

• Behind the News

  The Mail Reviewing recent issues of Milwaukee, LA Weekly, Bitch, and more

  By CJR Staff

  December 22, 2008 01:00 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  The Mail Reviewing recent issues of Milwaukee, LA Weekly, Bitch, and more

  By The Editors

  December 22, 2008 01:00 PM

• The Kicker

  Just Dance

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 12:23 PM

• The Kicker

  AP: Michelle Obama’s “Hairstyles Probably Will Be Scrutinized”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 12:11 PM

• Overload!

  Interview with Clay Shirky, Part II "Newspapers have discovered civic function awfully late to be taken seriously"

  By Russ Juskalian

  December 22, 2008 12:02 PM Comments (6)

• Campaign Desk

  Health Care Flashpoints Whither the public plan option?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 22, 2008 11:25 AM Comments (7)

• The Kicker

  Are You On The List(s)?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 10:34 AM

• The Kicker

  NYT’s Zimbabwe Coverage (What “Deterioration” Means)

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 10:00 AM

• The Audit

  Madoff’s Enablers

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 22, 2008 09:22 AM

• The Kicker

  NJ “Plog” “Shuns Web, And Thrives”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 22, 2008 09:18 AM

• The Audit

  Bloomberg Tough on Merrill’s Thain

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 22, 2008 08:44 AM

• The Kicker

  Han-inanity

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 05:20 PM

• The Kicker

  LAT to Outsource Its National, Foreign Coverage?

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 05:12 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  War(ren) of Words Vitriol over Rick Warren misses the broader point

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 05:11 PM Comments (6)

• The Kicker

  In Which Sarah Palin Enters Our Lives Once Again

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 05:08 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk, Full Court Press

  Above the Fold: Times Tongue Tied on Torture Cheney's waterboarding admission gets no play from NYT

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 19, 2008 04:53 PM Comments (12)

• The Kicker

  Awarded: 2008 P.U.-litzers

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 04:23 PM

• The Kicker

  More Todd: Without the Goatee, “I’d Just Be Another Pasty White Guy”

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 04:12 PM

• Behind the News

  Heisman Educators Gladwell fails to convert on article about teachers and NFL quaterbacks

  By Daniel Luzer

  December 19, 2008 03:09 PM

• The Kicker

  Live-Blag-ing the Blago Press Conference

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 03:00 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Who Will Be at the Table? Part III Special interest groups masquerade as ordinary citizens

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 19, 2008 01:48 PM

• Overload!

  Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I "There's always a new Luddism whenever there's change."

  By Russ Juskalian

  December 19, 2008 12:08 PM Comments (23)

• Behind the News, Events

  Everybody’s a Critic Where professional journalists must make a stand in consumer reporting

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 19, 2008 11:49 AM Comments (1)

• Regret the Error

  The Year in Errata The good and bad of the year in media errors and corrections

  By Craig Silverman

  December 19, 2008 11:33 AM

• The Kicker

  Breaking: Tamron Hall’s Boyfriend Stranded in Chicago

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 11:22 AM Comments (11)

• Campaign Desk

  Woes of Washington Bureau shutdowns do matter

  By Katia Bachko

  December 19, 2008 11:22 AM

• The Kicker

  Chuckie T: An Elegy

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 10:23 AM

• The Kicker

  Bringing It to the Cable

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 10:05 AM

• The Audit

  Did Tax Cuts Help Blow the Bubble?

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 19, 2008 09:36 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Media Elite Predict What 2009 Will Hold for Media Elite

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 09:32 AM

• The Kicker

  His Death Deeply Felt

  By Megan Garber

  December 19, 2008 09:16 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Interview: Jack Dolan "I didn't see anybody else do what we did, and I'm absolutely certain they could have."

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 19, 2008 09:06 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  “With Its Heart Still Beating”

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 19, 2008 08:38 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Only in America Insurance for the insured who become uninsured

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 18, 2008 02:27 PM

• Starting Thoughts

  Everything Old Is New Again New media lessons from the Victorian era

  By Maha R. Atal

  December 18, 2008 01:16 PM

• Overload!

  Disaster Reporting through the Ages In both the Galveston and Katrina storms, the news often was the news

  By Lester Feder

  December 18, 2008 12:08 PM

• The Audit

  Not-So-Sticky Wages at FedEx

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 18, 2008 12:01 PM

• The Audit

  NYT Putting It All Together on Wall Street Pay

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 18, 2008 11:10 AM

• The Kicker

  “I Saw Someone On Cable Say This…”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 18, 2008 10:23 AM

• The Audit

  More on Madoff from the Times

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 18, 2008 09:49 AM

• The Audit

  Journal on Top with Madoff/SEC Scandal

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 18, 2008 08:39 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Sweet Caroline Skepticism is a journalistic golden rule. Don’t banish it now.

  By Jane Kim

  December 17, 2008 05:08 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  Counting Questions

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 17, 2008 04:43 PM

• The Kicker

  We’re “Harboring” Ex-Journos Here

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 17, 2008 04:35 PM

• The Audit

  WSJ Looks Into the Woes at Calpers

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 17, 2008 02:23 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Office Envy

  By Katia Bachko

  December 17, 2008 01:54 PM

• The Kicker

  Guardian in Afghanistan

  By Katia Bachko

  December 17, 2008 01:28 PM

• Behind the News

  Conflict in the Congo, Part II Congo war finally hits Times's front page, but more coverage is needed

  By Armin Rosen

  December 17, 2008 01:23 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  Television as Tribunal What today's reporters can learn from Frost/Nixon

  By Sacha Evans

  December 17, 2008 01:12 PM

• The Kicker

  Scarborough’s “Big Apology” to NYT

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 17, 2008 01:09 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Yale Endowment Drops…How Much?

  By Jane Kim

  December 17, 2008 01:03 PM

• Behind the News

  Remembering Mountain Eagle Editor Tom Gish The local newspaper as democracy's messenger

  By Phil Primack

  December 17, 2008 12:52 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Spitzer: Being a Columnist “Sucks”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 17, 2008 12:25 PM

• Overload!, Video

  Maggie Jackson on the Erosion of Attention The author of Distracted talks about information overload

  By Russ Juskalian

  December 17, 2008 11:29 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Bloomberg Stays on AIG

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 17, 2008 10:09 AM

• The Audit

  The Bright Side of Deflation, Part Two

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 17, 2008 09:10 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  The Bright Side of Deflation

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 17, 2008 08:33 AM

• The Observatory

  Q&A: Andrew Revkin NYT reporter discusses climate, sustainability, and long-haul reporting

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 16, 2008 04:13 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  Making Connections How the troop surge hurt the Iraqi justice system

  By Katia Bachko

  December 16, 2008 04:08 PM

• The Kicker

  Minnesota Nice—streaming (and tweeting) live!

  By Clint Hendler

  December 16, 2008 02:15 PM Comments (2)

• Overload!, Video

  Kluge: Gary Marcus on Attention and the Brain The cognitive psychologist talks to CJR about how the brain works

  By Russ Juskalian

  December 16, 2008 11:55 AM

• The Kicker

  Buckley’s Best

  By Katia Bachko

  December 16, 2008 11:45 AM

• The Audit

  A CDO Story for the Rest of Us

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 16, 2008 11:00 AM

• News Meeting

  Books for a Hard Season Which book would you recommend to the journalistic community?

  By The Editors

  December 16, 2008 10:39 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  A Reporter at Sea

  By Clint Hendler

  December 16, 2008 10:28 AM

• The Kicker

  Sight For Sore Eyes on CNN

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 16, 2008 10:03 AM

• The Audit

  WaPo’s Wrong Spin on Retail

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 16, 2008 09:39 AM

• The Kicker

  Cheney to ABC News: “I’m Guilty”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 16, 2008 09:21 AM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  GM Pencils, Part Two

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 16, 2008 08:37 AM

• Campaign Desk

  The Size Tens Seen around the World International headlines focus less on the act, more on the significance of the insult

  By Jane Kim

  December 15, 2008 06:20 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, Full Court Press

  Above the Fold: Bailout Buyer’s Remorse The endless ironies of the Republican opposition to saving Detroit

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 15, 2008 05:32 PM

• The Observatory

  Weird Science (Reporting) CNN covers unfounded claims about new energy technology

  By Paul Raeburn

  December 15, 2008 05:15 PM Comments (7)

• Language Corner

  Missed Step Using “set foot in” is a step in the right direction

  By Merrill Perlman

  December 15, 2008 04:51 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Not So Punny Why the humor in TV's coverage of the shoe-throwing incident?

  By Megan Garber

  December 15, 2008 03:45 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Did the Press Hear What We Heard? The media bury some important news on Obama's health plan

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 15, 2008 01:51 PM

• Overload!, Video

  David Shenk on Data Smog The journalist and author talks to CJR about information overload

  By Russ Juskalian

  December 15, 2008 11:50 AM

• The Audit

  Detroit Now Reduced to Using Regular Pencils

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 15, 2008 10:50 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  MediaNews’ Busted Newspaper Bets

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 15, 2008 09:50 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Bush On Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journo: “I Don’t Know What His Beef Is”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 15, 2008 09:25 AM Comments (7)

• The Audit

  Bloomberg on Madoff’s Auditor

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 15, 2008 09:08 AM

• The Kicker

  Surowiecki: “The Real Problem For Newspapers?” “Us”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 15, 2008 08:52 AM

• The Audit

  WaPo: Bailout’s Pay Limits May Be Moot

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 15, 2008 08:34 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Rahm-nipresent Media

  By Megan Garber

  December 12, 2008 01:21 PM

• The Kicker

  Time to Tighten the Belt

  By Megan Garber

  December 12, 2008 12:10 PM

• Regret the Error

  Death by Obiticide When sloppy journalism kills

  By Craig Silverman

  December 12, 2008 10:45 AM

• The Audit

  WSJ: Tax-Lite Companies Want Tax-Heavy Bailouts

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 12, 2008 10:43 AM

• The Kicker

  Hall & Oates Pay Tribute to Alan Colmes

  By Megan Garber

  December 12, 2008 10:09 AM

• The Audit

  Fed Slaps Down Bloomberg FOIA

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 12, 2008 09:25 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Interview: Michael Hudson "We're in a battle now to define what happened."

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 12, 2008 09:12 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Was Countrywide’s “Puffery” Criminal?

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 12, 2008 08:29 AM

• The Kicker

  A Worthwhile Canadian Article

  By Clint Hendler

  December 11, 2008 02:47 PM

• The Kicker

  Blago’s Mother Knows Best?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 11, 2008 10:35 AM

• The Kicker

  An outfit for radio

  By Clint Hendler

  December 11, 2008 10:27 AM

• The Audit

  NYT Lets Treasury Off Too Easy

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 11, 2008 10:05 AM

• The Kicker

  Fox News Is Google’s Sixth “Fastest Rising” Search

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 11, 2008 09:43 AM Comments (7)

• The Audit

  Portfolio Pries Into Pequot

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 11, 2008 09:37 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  889 Minus 64 at NPR

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 11, 2008 09:21 AM

• The Audit

  The Times Looks at Bush’s Homeowner Advocate

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 11, 2008 08:33 AM

• Full Court Press

  Winners & Sinners Kaiser on BlagoGate, the NYT, NBC, and others

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 11, 2008 06:30 AM

• The Kicker

  Warning: Endorsing Obama May Cause Serious Weight Gain

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 10, 2008 04:59 PM

• The Kicker

  Patrick Fitzgerald, a.k.a. Folk Hero?

  By Jane Kim

  December 10, 2008 04:12 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  MRAP in Paper USA Today reporting on IED attacks vindicated by Pentagon report

  By Kathy Gilsinan

  December 10, 2008 04:08 PM Comments (9)

• The Kicker

  Another Chicago Musical

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 10, 2008 02:52 PM

• The Kicker

  Three Chances To Vote For Chris Matthews (Today!)

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 10, 2008 01:39 PM

• The Kicker

  NYT’s ClintonSenateSeatStakes “Corrective Article”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 10, 2008 01:17 PM

• The Kicker

  Truncated Thoughts

  By Katia Bachko

  December 10, 2008 12:15 PM

• Behind the News

  The Day after the Blago Arrest Chicago media get vocal on the gubernatorial scandal

  By Jane Kim

  December 10, 2008 12:02 PM

• The Kicker

  Shafer: Get A Gimmick, Gregory (And No More Noonan)

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 10, 2008 11:50 AM

• The Kicker

  On the List

  By Clint Hendler

  December 10, 2008 11:05 AM

• The Kicker

  From House Gym to Big House?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 10, 2008 10:41 AM

• The Audit

  $73 an Hour Doesn’t Add Up

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 10, 2008 10:22 AM Comments (11)

• The Kicker

  Blagojevich’s Home State Headlines

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 10, 2008 10:08 AM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  Journal’s Legg Mason “Get”

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 10, 2008 09:37 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  An Irresistably Readable Mortgage Critic Alyssa Katz remembers Doris Dungey, aka "Tanta"

  By Alyssa Katz

  December 10, 2008 09:23 AM Comments (5)

• The Audit

  Bloomberg Hits the Washington Consensus

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 10, 2008 08:31 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Some Questions for Tribune (and Sam Zell) CJR’s roadmap to the Blagojevich complaint

  By Clint Hendler

  December 10, 2008 06:00 AM Comments (10)

• Behind the News

  Voices of Chicago How the Windy City’s papers and blogs are keeping up with the Blagojevich story

  By Katia Bachko

  December 9, 2008 07:43 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  “Grace” Under (Very Little) Pressure

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 9, 2008 04:16 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Don’t Leave the Energy Department Out of It Tell readers where the auto bailout money will come from

  By Jane Kim

  December 9, 2008 03:59 PM

• News Meeting

  News Meeting: How Can Tribune Save Itself? Come join the conversation

  By The Editors

  December 9, 2008 01:45 PM Comments (11)

• Campaign Desk

  Some Good Health Coverage at Local Papers Laurels in El Paso, Dayton, and Colorado Springs

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 9, 2008 12:20 PM

• The Kicker

  10 of Time’s “Top 10 of Everything in 2008”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 9, 2008 10:06 AM

• The Kicker

  During And After The Pentagon’s “Mask Ban”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 9, 2008 09:34 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  “The Press Is The Enemy…”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 9, 2008 09:24 AM

• The Kicker

  You Think I’d Lay Down And Die?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 9, 2008 08:54 AM

• The Audit

  The Journal Gets a Scalp

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 9, 2008 08:52 AM

• The Audit

  Tribune Aftermath

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 9, 2008 08:32 AM Comments (2)

• Language Corner

  The Britishisms Are Coming! Gobsmacked by the recent British slang invasion

  By Merrill Perlman

  December 8, 2008 04:35 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  Consider Yourself Warned

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 8, 2008 02:27 PM

• The Kicker

  Tribune Files For Bankruptcy

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 8, 2008 02:04 PM

• The Observatory, Video

  Video: Climate Central A new partnership in science journalism

  By Curtis Brainard and Betwa Sharma

  December 8, 2008 01:07 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Who Will Be at the Table? Part II What lurks under the insurers’ gesture of friendship?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 8, 2008 01:00 PM

• The Kicker

  Who’s (Re)Counting? You!

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 8, 2008 12:47 PM

• The Audit

  Cookie-Company Crisis Makes WSJ and NYT

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 8, 2008 12:20 PM Comments (1)

• Overload!, The Observatory

  How Attention Networks Work: Transcript Cognitive psychologist Michael Posner on the neurological bases for attention

  By Russ Juskalian

  December 8, 2008 12:00 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  “Producing Something Resembling News”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 8, 2008 11:51 AM

• The Kicker

  Your Browser Knows

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 8, 2008 11:25 AM

• The Audit

  Journal Pushing Free Trade on Its News Pages

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 8, 2008 11:13 AM

• The Audit

  The Ratings Scam

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 8, 2008 10:25 AM

• The Kicker

  There Will Be Kennedy

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 8, 2008 10:14 AM

• The Audit

  Tribune on the Brink The financial crisis has dealt a deadly blow to its chances

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 8, 2008 09:47 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  “I’m Not Tim”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 8, 2008 09:32 AM

• Full Court Press

  Above the Fold: Stand by Me A musical journey ten years in the making

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 8, 2008 08:57 AM Comments (24)

• The Audit

  WSJ is Super on Reserve Primary Fund Story

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 8, 2008 08:33 AM Comments (13)

• The Observatory

  A One-Stop Shop for Climate Information? Princeton startup attempts to pair journalists' yin with scientists' yang

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 8, 2008 06:30 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Jet-tisoned The Big Three's road trip was a PR stunt. Why treat it as more than that?

  By Megan Garber

  December 8, 2008 06:30 AM

• Full Court Press

  Winners & Sinners Kaiser on Maslin, Stewart, NBC, and others

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 5, 2008 05:44 PM

• The Kicker

  Track Good Ledes on Twitter with #goodlede

  By Justin Peters

  December 5, 2008 02:32 PM Comments (5)

• Campaign Desk

  Conseco Redux What lessons does the Pennsylvania insurance mess have for health reform?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 5, 2008 01:27 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  NYT’s Norris Tweaks Trump

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 5, 2008 01:05 PM

• The Kicker

  Anderson Cooper: “John King is like the Rain Man of politics”

  By Megan Garber

  December 5, 2008 12:58 PM

• The Kicker

  Anderson Cooper: “There’s a lot of phony outrage in TV news”

  By Megan Garber

  December 5, 2008 12:37 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Anderson Cooper on War Reporting: “The energy is palpable. The molecules in the air are charged.”

  By Megan Garber

  December 5, 2008 12:09 PM

• The Kicker

  Anderson Cooper: “I never really set out to be an anchor”

  By Megan Garber

  December 5, 2008 12:01 PM

• Regret the Error

  Scrubbing Away Their Sins You can't disappear your errors online

  By Craig Silverman

  December 5, 2008 11:58 AM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  Audit Interview: Jesse Eisinger "We're grappling with our own failures about how, by and large, we missed this"

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 5, 2008 11:36 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Salting the Sweets WaPo basks in the glow of Obama’s health care mobilization effort

  By Jane Kim

  December 5, 2008 11:31 AM

• The Kicker

  Freepdom of Expression

  By Megan Garber

  December 5, 2008 10:50 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Rupert: Get Me That Bush House Story!

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 5, 2008 10:05 AM

• The Audit

  Questions for the WSJ on B of A

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 5, 2008 09:10 AM

• The Kicker

  Colbert to Walters: “Madame, You Got the Part”

  By Megan Garber

  December 5, 2008 08:49 AM

• The Audit

  Buck-Breaking and Lawsuit-Shaking

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 5, 2008 08:30 AM

• Behind the News

  Gannett Papers Shocked by Stun-Gun Maker’s Claims In SEC filing, Taser says it had the right to pre-review articles in two Gannett papers

  By Shahien Nasiripour

  December 5, 2008 06:00 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  “I’m Really Gonna Miss Systematically Destroying This Place”

  By Megan Garber

  December 4, 2008 04:45 PM

• Behind the News

  Hair Apparent The lesson of Couric's new 'do (hint: not sexism!)

  By Megan Garber

  December 4, 2008 04:42 PM

• Campaign Desk, Full Court Press

  Above the Fold: Sins of Omission NYT strategically chops Sen. Feinstein's statement on torture

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 4, 2008 03:55 PM Comments (10)

• Starting Thoughts

  The Paleontological Approach Let's sift through the industry's bones to figure out exactly when things went wrong

  By Leah Finnegan

  December 4, 2008 03:44 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  WSJ Wrap Rapped

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 4, 2008 11:18 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  By a Thousand

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 4, 2008 10:42 AM

• The Audit

  Deflation? Try Some Legal Price Fixing

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 4, 2008 10:42 AM Comments (4)

• The Kicker

  Gratuitous! (Works For CBS News)

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 4, 2008 10:04 AM

• The Audit

  Citi Dump

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 4, 2008 10:01 AM

• The Kicker

  Watching “World Watch”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 4, 2008 09:38 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Huffington’s How-To

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 4, 2008 09:27 AM

• The Audit

  NYT’s Saturn Story Missing a Few Rings

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 4, 2008 09:09 AM

• The Audit

  The Wall Street Journal and Xinhua

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 4, 2008 08:55 AM

• The Observatory

  CNN Cuts Entire Science, Tech Team Despite network’s intention to launch wire service, compete with the AP

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 4, 2008 06:30 AM Comments (65)

• Campaign Desk, Full Court Press

  Above the Fold: Slanting the Torture Story Everything you won't learn about torture in The New York Times

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 3, 2008 05:47 PM Comments (8)

• Campaign Desk

  Talking Shop: Gail Collins The New York Times columnist on caucuses, campaigning, and the glory of deadlines

  By Megan Garber

  December 3, 2008 03:44 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  Will The Revolution Be Linked?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 3, 2008 03:43 PM

• The Kicker

  Dowd’s Fey Profile

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 3, 2008 03:26 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  “The War After The War Is A Fight About Who We Are As Americans”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 3, 2008 12:46 PM

• The Observatory

  The Local Climate Regional papers invest in multi-part series on warming

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 3, 2008 12:31 PM Comments (4)

• The Kicker

  Kurtz’s “Skeptics” Clearly Don’t Read/Watch Politico

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 3, 2008 12:08 PM Comments (1)

• Overload!

  Linked Out One day, one story, one million hyperlinks

  By Daniel Luzer

  December 3, 2008 12:00 PM Comments (11)

• Campaign Desk

  Baucus Watch, Part III Montana reporter digs deep into the senator’s white paper

  By Trudy Lieberman

  December 3, 2008 11:32 AM

• The Kicker

  Chris Matthews: Choose Or Lose?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 3, 2008 11:06 AM

• The Kicker

  Managing McCaffreyGate

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 3, 2008 10:37 AM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  WSJ Watchdogs Sketchy Conseco Insurance Move

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 3, 2008 10:33 AM Comments (4)

• The Audit

  Ebony on the Fall of Detroit The magazine reports the U.S. car industry's demise is hitting blacks especially hard

  By Elinore Longobardi

  December 3, 2008 09:59 AM

• The Audit

  Analyze This!

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 3, 2008 09:33 AM

• The Audit

  WSJ Now Inside Paulson’s Brain

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 3, 2008 08:56 AM

• The Audit

  Big Three CEOs Hit the Road

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 3, 2008 08:26 AM

• The Audit

  Weird Goldman Sourcing at the Journal

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 2, 2008 10:06 PM

• Campaign Desk

  No More Questions A punctuation suggestion for Bob Herbert

  By Katia Bachko

  December 2, 2008 05:33 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Gregory’s Gravitas Hands

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 2, 2008 01:51 PM

• Starting Thoughts

  “The Business Is Broken” But I'm still having fun all the same

  By Andrea James

  December 2, 2008 12:59 PM Comments (6)

• News Meeting

  How Should Journalists Use Twitter? Come join the conversation

  By The Editors

  December 2, 2008 12:29 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Air Apparent, Part Two Live TV and the virtues of restraint

  By Megan Garber

  December 2, 2008 12:24 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  No Hair!

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 2, 2008 12:14 PM

• The Kicker

  “Plenty of Viewers”= Me, Some Say

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 2, 2008 11:46 AM

• The Kicker

  Phoning In Mumbai Coverage?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 2, 2008 11:04 AM

• The Audit

  Preemptive Bubble Bursting

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 2, 2008 10:24 AM

• The Audit

  AP Is Excellent on Bush Mortgage Negligence

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 2, 2008 09:30 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  On Reporting In Iraq

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 2, 2008 09:17 AM

• The Audit

  The Great Recession of 2008

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 2, 2008 09:05 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  GM USA?

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 2, 2008 08:28 AM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  Learn About Lashkar

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 2, 2008 07:57 AM

• Behind the News

  LeT’s Not Jump the Gun Guessing is great, but the pundits’ certainty is worrisome

  By Joshua Foust

  December 2, 2008 07:00 AM Comments (11)

• The Kicker

  Tale of Two Porches

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 1, 2008 02:26 PM Comments (1)

• Language Corner

  Healthy Usage Here's hoping that your Thanksgiving was a healthful one

  By Merrill Perlman

  December 1, 2008 01:48 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  The Unbearable Lightness of Kabul Lots of bombs go off in Afghanistan, but the media only seem to report the ones that hit internationals

  By Joshua Foust

  December 1, 2008 12:56 PM

• The Kicker

  Ah Yes, The “Split Up The White Guys” Strategy

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 1, 2008 12:06 PM

• The Kicker

  In Which Hillary Says Yes and Kevin Drum Eats His Hat

  By Jane Kim

  December 1, 2008 11:56 AM

• The Audit

  News You Can Actually Use But Hopefully Won’t Have To

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 1, 2008 10:30 AM

• The Audit

  Bloomberg Rakes Muck Another stellar entry pops out of the box

  By Dean Starkman

  December 1, 2008 10:10 AM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  The Banks and the Big Three

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 1, 2008 10:05 AM

• The Kicker

  “Team” Coverage

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 1, 2008 09:44 AM

• Campaign Desk, Full Court Press

  Above the Fold: Complex Analysis Kaiser on NBC News and the military-industrial complex

  By Charles Kaiser

  December 1, 2008 09:39 AM Comments (6)

• The Audit

  The Media’s Mixed Messages on the Mall

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 1, 2008 09:24 AM

• The Kicker

  TV News Vets

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 1, 2008 08:59 AM

• The Audit

  WaPo and 60 Minutes Team Up on Internet Gambling

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 1, 2008 08:58 AM

• The Audit

  WSJ: What Crisis?

  By Ryan Chittum

  December 1, 2008 08:28 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Air Apparent TV news in the post-election world, part one

  By Megan Garber

  December 1, 2008 07:30 AM

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