Here's a nice thing: against the backdrop of layoffs, buyouts, and cutbacks in the media sector, the Columbia Journalism Review is launching a fellows...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business
For a site that has repeatedly railed about the business press' failure to take on big financial institutions, CJR's lack of comment on a major piece that did just that was puzzling.
Norman Solomon | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
A "public plan" coexisting with the private health insurance system is inherently reconciled to major inequality in access to health care.
David Sassoon | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green
To hear Brian Williams take a clean shot at dirty coal seemed like a signal heralding a great thaw of a long media Ice Age that has prohibited honest reporting on the fossil fuel industry.
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media
So big cheese media critic Howard Kurtz has spoken: The business media is partly to blame for our economic crisis. "As in the savings-and-loan scand...
Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.05.2008 | Media
It was a delight to see Stephanopoulos nudge McCain to Iraq, getting at what is the most fundamental difference between the two candidates -- the grown-up test of independence from the Bush worldview.
Todd Gitlin | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
As Joe Biden might say, the shortest distance between Joe Lieberman and a microphone is a sentence consisting of three parts: a subject, a verb, and "Ready on Day One."
Ari Melber | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Republicans have been twisting Wes Clark's mundane observation that McCain's experience "getting shot down" in a fighter plane is not a "qualification to be president."
Todd Gitlin | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
Russert turned to his usual routine, and tried unsuccessfully to nudge Webb into saying that he was at odds with Democrat orthodoxy about veterans and Iraq.
Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media