Behind the News

Israeli airstrikes hit Gazan media facilities

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The Kicker

Tom Rosenstiel leaving Pew

He’ll be American Press Institute’s executive director

By Sara Morrison   Nov 19, 2012 at 06:13 PM

More changes are in store for the Pew Research Center. As Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor and online executive... More

Swing States Project

Election reflections from the Silver State

Las Vegas Sun political editor Anjeanette Damon wants face time with presidential candidates, more time with voters

By Jay Jones   Nov 19, 2012 at 02:50 PM

NEVADA — Midway through the election cycle just completed, longtime Nevada political writer and TV analyst Anjeanette Damon got... More

Behind the News

A reporter is fired; colleagues quit in protest

The Hudson Register-Star reporter refused to include information in his story

By Peter Sterne   Nov 19, 2012 at 02:40 PM

On November 8, Tom Casey, a reporter at the Hudson Register-Star, a community paper in upstate New York, wrote an... More

Behind the News

Israeli airstrikes hit Gazan media facilities

At least six employees were wounded

By Jared Malsin   Nov 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM

On Sunday morning, Israel’s warplanes attacked two media centers as part of its current military offensive against Gaza. The first... More

Behind the News

Buzzfeed president talks branded content

The future of media revenue has its roots in the past

By Sara Morrison   Nov 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM

The Columbia Spectator, The Blue & White, and the Columbia InterPublications Association hosted the Columbia Media Conference last weekend. The... More

The Audit

Audit Notes: hustled, Brauchli fallout, NYT’s Walmart impact

ProPublica connects the dots on a former Countrywide executive named in a DOJ lawsuit

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2012 at 06:50 AM

ProPublica's Paul Kiel reports (with an assist from TheStreet) that the JPMorgan Chase executive in charge of its program to... More

The Kicker

Must-reads of the week

David Petraeus, Mormon reporters, Guy Fieri, stray penises

By The Editors   Nov 16, 2012 at 04:00 PM

Culled from CJR's frequently updated "Must-reads from around the Web," our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More

The Kicker

Overholser leaving USC j-school

She has been the director there since 2008

By Kira Goldenberg   Nov 16, 2012 at 03:37 PM

Geneva Overholser, the director of The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, is stepping down at... More

Swing States Project

Hope and change in unlikely places

Three cheers for campaign coverage from BuzzFeed and the Los Angeles Times

By Walter Shapiro   Nov 16, 2012 at 02:50 PM

Channeling the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado, I’ve got a little list of those parts of 2012 coverage that... More

The Observatory

Climate roller coaster back on track

With Obama talking global warming, media see ups and downs

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM

At his first post-election press conference on Wednesday, President Obama talked about his current position on climate change in greater... More

Full-Court Press

ESPN’s unreality-based coverage

Karl Rove’s got nothing on the boys from Bristol

By Robert Weintraub   Nov 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM

One of the main takeaways from last week’s election was that conservatives were living in a bubble of delusion, convinced... More

Minority Reports

The media’s woman blaming

Most coverage wrongly blames Paula Broadwell for leading Gen. David Petraeus astray

By Jennifer Vanasco   Nov 16, 2012 at 06:50 AM

In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Frank Bruni gets it.... More

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