Monthly Archive

September 2010

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: The Shark Submerges, Flack Jobs From Hell, Trial Balloons Popped

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 30, 2010 08:51 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Crisis Warning Lights Are Blinking Red Again Europe's sovereigns worsen again, currency devalutions threaten a downward spiral, and more.

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 30, 2010 05:58 PM Comments (1)

• The Research Report

  Snapshots of War WikiLeaks isn't the first site to publish controversial material from a war zone

  By Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend

  September 30, 2010 05:21 PM

• Review

  Top Gun How the Kalashnikov conquered the world

  By Judith Matloff

  September 30, 2010 05:20 PM

• Essay

  Keeping Secrets How censorship has (and hasn’t) changed since World War II

  By Peter Duffy

  September 30, 2010 05:18 PM

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of a history of wartime public opinion and a biography of Time publisher Henry Luce

  By James Boylan

  September 30, 2010 05:08 PM

• Review

  Error, Folly, and Reversal Strategic steps and missteps, from Pearl Harbor to Iraq

  By Barry Strauss

  September 30, 2010 05:06 PM

• Reports

  All-Out Media War It’s Clarín vs. the Kirchners, and journalism will be the loser

  By Silvio Waisbord

  September 30, 2010 05:04 PM

• Reports

  Tea Party Poopers How the left press helped create a conservative monster

  By David Weigel

  September 30, 2010 05:02 PM

• Language Corner

  Echo Chamber On redundant acronyms and initialisms

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 30, 2010 04:59 PM

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry

  By The Editors

  September 30, 2010 04:56 PM

• Currents

  Glory Days The unique legacy of Brooklyn College newspaper the Vanguard

  By Sara Germano

  September 30, 2010 04:54 PM

• Currents

  Coffee, Tea . . . and a Scoop A hyperlocal in the Czech Republic runs its newsroom out of a coffee shop

  By Patti McCracken

  September 30, 2010 04:51 PM

• The Kicker

  On Reporting the Rutgers Tragedy

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 30, 2010 12:47 PM Comments (7)

• The Kicker

  Watch the Washington Ideas Forum Online

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 30, 2010 12:21 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Whitman’s Nanny-gate, Day Two California’s papers take on a new media frenzy

  By Joel Meares

  September 30, 2010 11:47 AM Comments (4)

• The Kicker

  Anderson Cooper’s Latest Adventure: Daytime

  By Joel Meares

  September 30, 2010 11:17 AM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Accountability Icelandic Style Politicians in the dock for the financial crisis

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 30, 2010 10:49 AM

• Page Views

  You Don’t Know Jack An epochal slap-down and the birth of modern media culture

  By Ryan Grim

  September 30, 2010 10:02 AM Comments (3)

• Editorial

  What We’ve Sown The nation needs better coverage of the Farm Bill

  By The Editors

  September 30, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (1)

• The News Frontier, The Observatory

  Tweeting a Wildfire Social media in an emergency, and what it means for the press

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 30, 2010 06:00 AM Comments (9)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: The Damage Done, GOP Economics, Pittman Bests Bernanke

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 29, 2010 07:56 PM

• The Kicker

  Silverstein’s Farewell Note

  By Joel Meares

  September 29, 2010 05:22 PM

• The Kicker, The News Frontier

  ONA Award Finalists: Digitech Innovators

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 29, 2010 03:53 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Seeking a Media Critic

  By Dean Starkman

  September 29, 2010 03:00 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis

  Social Security in the Heartland: Laurie Cooper What Social Security means to real people

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 29, 2010 12:38 PM Comments (5)

• The Kicker

  Why Candidate Jasper P. Huxteroo is Smiling

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 29, 2010 12:06 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  This Gold “Record” Keeps Skipping The Journal and others fail to account for thirty years of inflation

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 29, 2010 11:53 AM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk, Transparency

  I Am (I Am, I Am) Super PAC Making sense of campaign finance coverage may require super powers

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 29, 2010 10:59 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  The Lawrence O’Donnell Twilight Zone

  By Joel Meares

  September 29, 2010 10:57 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Illegal Immigrant Costs, E-books, Curmudgeons

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 28, 2010 06:47 PM Comments (7)

• The Kicker

  Politico on the D.C. Cash Dash/Money Grab/Money Rush

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 28, 2010 02:38 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Media Critic In Chief Obama on FOX and objectivity

  By Zachary Roth

  September 28, 2010 01:56 PM Comments (7)

• News Meeting

  Woulda Coulda Shoulda Where have your career bloopers led you?

  By The Editors

  September 28, 2010 01:25 PM Comments (5)

• The Audit

  Access As Distortion Field Facebook author spins for the company in the Washington Post

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 28, 2010 12:23 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  Red Alert At The Guardian

  By Joel Meares

  September 28, 2010 12:00 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Like a Rolling Stone… Jann Wenner asks the president about that McChrystal profile

  By Joel Meares

  September 28, 2010 11:46 AM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk, Transparency

  The Nixon Papers You Haven’t Seen Historians challenge perpetual grand jury secrecy

  By Clint Hendler

  September 28, 2010 09:51 AM Comments (2)

• The News Frontier

  Money, Volunteers, Money, Patch, and Money (What community news site owners worry about)

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 28, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (5)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  Launch Pad: Remapping Debate Trying to keep eyes on the prize

  By Craig Gurian

  September 28, 2010 07:00 AM Comments (1)

• Feature

  What Is Russia Today? The Kremlin's propaganda outlet has an identity crisis

  By Julia Ioffe

  September 28, 2010 06:00 AM Comments (18)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Why No Charges?, ABC on Collections, SEC Whiff

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 27, 2010 08:17 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Scalpel We Can Believe In Obama's antitrust regime and the proposed Comcast/NBC merger

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 27, 2010 06:32 PM

• Language Corner

  Selling Short When words are truncated, spellings differ

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 27, 2010 03:03 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  NYT Examines Most “Active” Among “Shadowy Army” of Nonprofits But can't tell us where Americans for Job Security gets its cash

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 27, 2010 12:36 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Unmet Promises in Times Front Page Story Putting readers to work on negative ads

  By Joel Meares

  September 27, 2010 12:07 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Critical Witness in the Wall Street Sausage Factory Banks used Clayton's quality-assurance info to make more money, investors be damned

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 27, 2010 11:52 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Guardian Quashes Alien Ambassador Story

  By Joel Meares

  September 27, 2010 11:36 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Of Hamsters and Values Reply to Felix Salmon

  By Dean Starkman

  September 27, 2010 11:13 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Distrust and Health Reform The public smells a rat

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 27, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Free Trade Fallout, China’s Peg, Bailout Failure

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 24, 2010 06:49 PM

• The Audit

  D’Souza Again; This Time in the Chronicle Why is the mainstream press giving this guy such a prominent platform?

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 24, 2010 04:15 PM Comments (20)

• Campaign Desk

  To Read This Weekend The Times’s Matt Bai’s Excellent Connecticut Piece

  By Joel Meares

  September 24, 2010 03:40 PM

• The Kicker

  Journalism in Jeopardy

  By Joel Meares

  September 24, 2010 12:08 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier, The Water Cooler

  Q&A: Mike Liebhold, Principal Technologist at The Institute For the Future On augmented reality glasses and the future of location-based publishing

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 24, 2010 11:16 AM

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  Slate Shuts the Window A long-overdue corrections policy revision

  By Craig Silverman

  September 24, 2010 10:59 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Reporting the Economy in Orange County

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 24, 2010 09:53 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Forbes Dissent, MBS Fight, Incestuous CDOs

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 23, 2010 07:49 PM

• The Kicker

  Toronto Sun: Sorry About That Nazi Thing

  By Joel Meares

  September 23, 2010 04:52 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Goldman Loves This WSJ Headline

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 23, 2010 12:55 PM Comments (4)

• Campaign Desk

  What To Do with the “Pledge to America”? “Front it!” says the media

  By Joel Meares

  September 23, 2010 12:33 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Tracking the Tea Parties Good work from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 23, 2010 11:56 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler

  Q&A: This Week Host Christiane Amanpour The move to Sunday morning, her critics, and reporting in a new age

  By Joel Meares

  September 23, 2010 11:00 AM Comments (8)

• Feature

  See It Now! Video journalism is dying. Long live video journalism.

  By Jill Drew

  September 23, 2010 06:00 AM Comments (6)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The FT Goes Yachting. Meanwhile… Rolling in the luxury ads for those special sections.

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 22, 2010 07:40 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Going Rogue Again: “Obama’s Wars” Preview a Distraction All eyes on the publicity machine

  By Joel Meares

  September 22, 2010 05:56 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  NJSpotlight.com, Trenton’s State House Startup The newcomer to press row fills a policy niche

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 22, 2010 05:15 PM

• The Audit

  Arrington and the Journal on Venture Capital WSJ reports investors say prices are frothy. TechCrunch reports a VC cabal colluding to fix that.

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 22, 2010 03:33 PM

• The Audit

  The Observer on the Roots of Wall Street’s Obama Rage

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 22, 2010 12:51 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Kurtz Stays Silent on Peretz Washington Post media critic avoids controversy, again

  By Zachary Roth

  September 22, 2010 11:50 AM Comments (9)

• The Kicker

  Steal This Google Map!

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 22, 2010 11:42 AM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  WSJ, NYT on the Bug-Eating Foodies of Brooklyn

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 22, 2010 10:44 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: WSJ Editorial Misleads, That Flack, Respawning

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 21, 2010 06:11 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Inside Gibbs’s Twitter Psyche

  By Joel Meares

  September 21, 2010 05:07 PM

• Campaign Desk

  NYT on the ABC’s of 501(c)s Why these groups are “popping up like mushrooms” this election season

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 21, 2010 03:14 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  WSJ Misses on Stimulus Red Tape The spending was supposed to be phased in all along. The real question is why.

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 21, 2010 01:32 PM Comments (1)

• News Meeting

  Tales from the Hamster Wheel Tell us yours (or share examples of the Wheel has wrought)

  By The Editors

  September 21, 2010 01:19 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, The News Frontier

  Old Dog With New Tricks PBS NewsHour launches new politics site

  By Joel Meares

  September 21, 2010 12:38 PM

• Behind the News

  Bias at the Times Book Review? It’s not that simple

  By Stefan Beck

  September 21, 2010 12:35 PM Comments (2)

• Language Corner

  Un-towards Tacking ‘s’ on to some directional words

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 21, 2010 12:19 PM

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts and Laurels A Lincoln Journal Star series digs through the paper's archives and finds treasure

  By Alexandra Fenwick

  September 21, 2010 11:53 AM

• The News Frontier

  Launch Pad Archive An archive of CJR's "Launch Pad" columns

  By The Editors

  September 21, 2010 11:38 AM

• The Kicker

  They Don’t, They Don’t Speak for Us

  By Dylan DePice

  September 21, 2010 11:01 AM Comments (2)

• Behind the News, The News Frontier

  Launch Pad: Remapping Debate Three weeks until the site goes live

  By Craig Gurian

  September 21, 2010 09:22 AM Comments (4)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: That’s Rich, Krugman; Munger; Dancing Around Income Inequality

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 20, 2010 07:19 PM Comments (21)

• The Audit

  Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Slim Bloom Profile

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 20, 2010 06:29 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, The News Frontier

  Tiles, the Issues Wheel, and the Ask America Van Yahoo News’s hyper-interactive new midterm election site

  By Joel Meares

  September 20, 2010 03:12 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Recession May Be Over, But the Jobs Crisis Isn’t The Times and Journal with good angles on unemployment

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 20, 2010 12:45 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Times Misfires With Ad Story, True Or Not Front page story focuses on political maybes

  By Joel Meares

  September 20, 2010 12:12 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler, Transparency

  Q&A: White House E-mail Lawyer Anne Weismann CREW issues its final report on a fading scandal

  By Clint Hendler

  September 20, 2010 11:52 AM

• The Kicker

  El Diario de Juarez: “We Do Not Want More Deaths”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 20, 2010 10:05 AM Comments (1)

• The News Frontier

  Whatever Happened to NewsTilt? A co-founder of the short-lived start-up reflects on failure

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 20, 2010 09:59 AM

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: Forbes Compares Obama to Lenin, Racist BS, Some Sanity

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 17, 2010 09:39 PM Comments (6)

• The Audit

  Public Service Journalism at Its Very Best A Seattle Times investigation uncovers profiteering and abuse in Washington's elder-care system

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 17, 2010 04:50 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The WSJ Is Good on Middle-Class Incomes

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 17, 2010 10:54 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  How to Lose Your Gut The journalist’s guide to gutless online verification

  By Craig Silverman

  September 17, 2010 09:04 AM Comments (5)

• The News Frontier

  Checking In on Kachingle Why haven’t any big news sites signed up?

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 17, 2010 08:30 AM Comments (5)

• Behind the News, Borders & Bylines

  Book It Travelers will be most responsible for the death of paper books

  By Justin D. Martin

  September 17, 2010 08:22 AM Comments (6)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Marketplace Filleted, Window Dressing, Scotland Yard

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 16, 2010 07:31 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler

  Q&A: Hawaii Political Reporter Dan Boylan “It’s the most chaotic election we’ve ever had.”

  By Joel Meares

  September 16, 2010 04:16 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Dinesh D’Souza Digs Himself in Deeper Some more criticism of Forbes's disastrous Obama cover story

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 16, 2010 01:48 PM Comments (50)

• Page Views

  Not Dead Yet Inside The Washington Post’s struggle to save itself

  By David Gura

  September 16, 2010 12:24 PM Comments (4)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Elizabeth Warren End-Around Some questions on what Obama's conflict avoidance means

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 16, 2010 11:17 AM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  “Nice Ascot”: CNN Analyst’s New Fashion Line

  By Joel Meares

  September 16, 2010 10:49 AM Comments (2)

• The Observatory

  “This is Our Beat” Breaking news and the big picture in Audubon’s special report on the oil spill

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 16, 2010 10:15 AM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  “This Woolly Primary Season”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 16, 2010 09:10 AM

• Campaign Desk

  CJR Holds a Town Meeting Not everyone knows about health reform

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 16, 2010 09:06 AM Comments (1)

• Feature

  A Rocket’s Trajectory Marcus Brauchli at The Washington Post

  By Scott Sherman

  September 16, 2010 06:00 AM Comments (7)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Undoing?, FT Scoop, WSJ Nut Cracks

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 15, 2010 09:37 PM

• The Audit

  The Mercury News’s Thinly Sourced Apple Scooplet Some skepticism is in order

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 15, 2010 04:23 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  O’Donnell Wins, GOP Loses, But Where Are The Voters? A post-primary day wrap-up

  By Joel Meares

  September 15, 2010 12:48 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  WSJ’s Welfare State Story Lacks Context

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 15, 2010 12:33 PM Comments (4)

• The Kicker

  Washington Post: Fenty Defeats Gray!

  By Justin Peters

  September 15, 2010 11:44 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Sorkin, Stone, and Schwarzman; WSJ Mag; Bloomberg on the VA

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 14, 2010 07:29 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Journalists, “Media Professionals” Gave Over $469,900 To Political Candidates

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 14, 2010 04:24 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Freeland Tells Obama to Lay Off Big Business

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 14, 2010 01:39 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Target Corp.’s “Perfect Storm” A political contribution spawns weeks of headlines (and a flash mob)

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 14, 2010 01:05 PM Comments (6)

• The Audit

  Starkman on the Hamster Wheel

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 14, 2010 11:55 AM

• The Observatory

  Q&A: Covering the IPCC Perlman award-winner Pallava Bagla talks about courage and tough questions

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 14, 2010 10:45 AM Comments (4)

• News Meeting

  Primary Grades How can the midterm coverage improve between now and November?

  By The Editors

  September 14, 2010 10:08 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  A Rate Increase for James Windus Where is the New York media?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 14, 2010 09:40 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Sebelius Watch, Part V The war of words with insurers continues

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 14, 2010 09:34 AM Comments (3)

• Cover Story

  The Hamster Wheel Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere

  By Dean Starkman

  September 14, 2010 06:00 AM Comments (30)

• Campaign Desk

  Primary Day: A Reporter’s Eye View Meet the journalists covering today's big races

  By Joel Meares

  September 14, 2010 06:00 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Audit Notes: D’Souza and Forbes Edition

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 13, 2010 05:16 PM Comments (5)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Forbes’ Shameful Piece on Obama as the “Other” The worst kind of smear journalism by Dinesh D'Souza

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 13, 2010 01:05 PM Comments (88)

• Campaign Desk

  O’Donnell: Seismic Quake Or Y2K Fizzer Delaware’s not so calm before tomorrow’s primary storm

  By Joel Meares

  September 13, 2010 12:12 PM Comments (2)

• Language Corner

  Sic Transitive Gloria ‘For,’ ‘from,’ and ‘on’ go bye-bye

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 13, 2010 11:35 AM Comments (5)

• Campaign Desk

  Q&A: New Hampshire’s James Pindell, political editor of WMUR.com “I’m a political dork who went to college in Des Moines because of the Iowa caucuses.”

  By Joel Meares

  September 13, 2010 11:18 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: HAMPered, FHA Criminals, Student Loan Racket

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 10, 2010 06:07 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler

  Q&A: Rhode Island Political Analyst Scott Mackay "Patrick Kennedy could have won but it would have been a brutal race.”

  By Joel Meares

  September 10, 2010 03:42 PM Comments (2)

• The Observatory

  Eschew the Scientific Sound Bite A response to the oil plume paradox

  By Richard Camilli

  September 10, 2010 01:12 PM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Slow SEC Six months after Valukas, the Journal reports it's zeroing in on Repo 105

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 10, 2010 01:04 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Not Happy Sharron Nevada journalist scorned by Angle on debate

  By Joel Meares

  September 10, 2010 12:53 PM Comments (7)

• The Kicker, The News Frontier

  The Times’s Latest Interactive on the WTC

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 10, 2010 12:07 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News, Regret the Error

  The Worldwide Leader in Corrections Policy It’s ESPN

  By Craig Silverman

  September 10, 2010 11:37 AM

• The Audit

  The Bear Up There

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 10, 2010 11:31 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Another Curious Omission The Fiscal Times and Social Security

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 10, 2010 10:09 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Out-of-State Campaign Dough, Expensive Bonds, Apple

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 9, 2010 07:40 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Audit D.C. Notes: Football Facts, Jobs Jam, Gauging Fairness

  By Holly Yeager

  September 9, 2010 06:05 PM

• The Kicker

  AP: Media Voice of Reason?

  By Joel Meares

  September 9, 2010 05:47 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Bloomberg Scoop: Rubin and Prince Knew

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 9, 2010 01:53 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker, The News Frontier

  ProPublica Welcomes All Nerds

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 9, 2010 12:40 PM

• Campaign Desk

  “Mike, You Ignorant Slut.” Politico’s new opinion writers should feel right at home

  By Joel Meares

  September 9, 2010 11:42 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  You Can’t Do That Online

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 9, 2010 10:53 AM Comments (1)

• Second Read

  What It Was Like Dispatches told why kids from Ohio came back so 'eerily old'

  By Connie Schultz

  September 9, 2010 08:00 AM Comments (5)

• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler

  Q&A: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Political Reporters

  By Joel Meares

  September 8, 2010 05:25 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  The News Corp. Coverup Memory-impaired execs, payments to key figures, and Keystone Kops

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 8, 2010 04:00 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Boy, Look Who National Journal’s Been Hiring So far only 20% of high-profile hires are women; not good

  By Holly Yeager

  September 8, 2010 01:58 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  The Case For The Confusing Headline

  By Joel Meares

  September 8, 2010 12:30 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker

  A “9/11 Widow” on the Press & Park51

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 8, 2010 12:22 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Wrong Place, Wrong Time Travel writing and my geographic inferiority complex

  By Steve Daley

  September 8, 2010 11:35 AM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  All Eyes on the Horse Race Ease up on the poll-craziness

  By Joel Meares

  September 8, 2010 11:31 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Different Angle on Sports Subsidies

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 8, 2010 11:20 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Some Curious Omissions The New Yorker and Social Security

  By Trudy Lieberman

  September 8, 2010 09:51 AM Comments (9)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: News Corp. Scandal, HSBC Hire, Dodd-Frank Repo

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 7, 2010 08:18 PM

• The Audit

  NYT Pushes BP’s PR Line on Its Ability to Pay The massively profitable company's poverty claim hits A1 of the Times—unchecked

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 7, 2010 06:23 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Parker Spitzer (Awkward Already)

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 7, 2010 04:28 PM

• The Kicker

  AP: Election 2010 is “Bursting With Money”

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 7, 2010 03:56 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Sham Candidate Story Misses a Key Voice Where’s the real Green Party?

  By Joel Meares

  September 7, 2010 03:34 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Congress and “Corporate-Financed Philanthropy” How politicians (and companies) do well by doing good

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 7, 2010 01:23 PM

• The Kicker

  Reflections of an Iraqi Journalist

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 7, 2010 01:03 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Michael Wolff’s High Cynicism An atrocious column about The New York Times's News Corp. hacking scandal investigation.

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 7, 2010 12:37 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Six News Videos To See Links to the high-quality videos mentioned in Jill Drew's feature "See It Now!"

  By The Editors

  September 7, 2010 11:33 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News, Borders & Bylines

  Sourpusses and the Summit Journalists discarded Obama’s Mideast peace summit before it began

  By Justin D. Martin

  September 7, 2010 11:31 AM Comments (3)

• Language Corner

  Been There Learning to dodge clichés

  By Merrill Perlman

  September 7, 2010 11:12 AM Comments (1)

• Reports

  Traffic Jam We’ll never agree about online audience size

  By Lucas Graves

  September 7, 2010 07:48 AM Comments (9)

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Audit D.C. Notes: Revisiting Bai on Blumenauer, Cato Purge, Labor Day Lesson

  By Holly Yeager

  September 3, 2010 05:14 PM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  Federal Judge Says Website Not Liable For Comments

  By Lauren Kirchner

  September 3, 2010 01:23 PM Comments (7)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  A Fortune Look at Arizona’s Private Prisons

  By Ryan Chittum

  September 3, 2010 12:03 PM Comments (3)

• Regret the Error, The News Frontier

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• Campaign Desk, Transparency

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• The Audit

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• Campaign Desk

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• Economic Crisis, The Audit

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• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler

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• The News Frontier

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• The Audit

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  September 1, 2010 04:58 PM Comments (3)

• The Audit

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• The Kicker

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• Behind the News

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• Campaign Desk, Economic Crisis, The Audit

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• Campaign Desk

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  By Joel Meares

  September 1, 2010 11:45 AM

• The Audit

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  By Ryan Chittum

  September 1, 2010 11:15 AM

• Campaign Desk

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