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• Campaign Desk

  Voters to Press: Tell Us Where the Candidates Stand In South Carolina, readers look to local papers for the basics

  By Erika Fry

  Wed Jan 25 2012 03:43 PM

• Campaign Desk

  The Colorado Columnist on the Bus A look at the Denver Post’s choice to send a liberal columnist (only) to cover a GOP primary

  By Mary Winter

  Wed Jan 25 2012 01:15 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Jon Stewart Takes on Sebelius What Madame Secretary didn’t say

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Jan 25 2012 12:38 PM Comments (1)

• Essay

  When the 99% Had a Paper The brief, wondrous life of PM

  By Christopher B. Daly

  Wed Jan 25 2012 06:00 AM Comments (1)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Dimon the Persecuted, Mitt’s Taxes, Minimum Wage

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jan 25 2012 02:32 AM Comments (3)

• The Observatory

  Keystone XL Jobs Bewilder Media Reporters still fumbling numbers in wake of pipeline’s rejection

  By Curtis Brainard

  Tue Jan 24 2012 04:30 PM Comments (10)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Mitt Romney’s Taxes

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jan 24 2012 04:21 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  A Trail of Unexpected Costs on the Campaign Trail Price-gouging in the primary states

  By Ben Adler

  Tue Jan 24 2012 03:30 PM Comments (1)

• The News Frontier

  Teaching Cyber-Security Confidentiality promises often require technical skill

  By Alysia Santo

  Tue Jan 24 2012 01:38 PM

• Behind the News

  Stories I’d Like to See More primary math, Boeing’s second chance, and DHS mission creep

  By Steven Brill

  Tue Jan 24 2012 12:05 PM

• Language Corner

  Confidence Trick Scams ‘R’ Us

  By Merrill Perlman

  Tue Jan 24 2012 11:51 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  A State of the Union Media Prebuttal Instead of overhyping the SOTU, here’s what reporters should do

  By Brendan Nyhan

  Tue Jan 24 2012 11:43 AM

• Currents

  The Velvet Rope Why do journalists still care about seeing their name in print?

  By Janet Paskin

  Tue Jan 24 2012 06:00 AM Comments (4)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Kim Dotcom and SOPA, Private Equity, Swipe Fees

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jan 23 2012 07:58 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Patent Trolls 4 News Paywalls Nathan Myhrvold makes some common errors about the newspaper industry

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jan 23 2012 05:30 PM

• The Audit

  How Sharing Disrupts Media

  By Felix Salmon

  Mon Jan 23 2012 01:45 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Romney’s History on Medicare How he came to accept “premium support”

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Jan 23 2012 12:19 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Newt Gingrich, Media Critic Primary night in South Carolina, Gingrich and supporters sound off on press

  By Erika Fry

  Mon Jan 23 2012 06:00 AM Comments (2)

• Feature

  The Ring is Counted Out Boxing’s duplicity devours an honest magazine

  By Ivan G. Goldman

  Mon Jan 23 2012 06:00 AM Comments (31)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Justice’s Revolving Door, GE Probed, iBooks Author

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 20 2012 09:43 PM

• Campaign Desk

  What I Saw at the South Carolina Debate Or, how campaign coverage is like industrial farming

  By Erika Fry

  Fri Jan 20 2012 03:12 PM Comments (2)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Two Days, Two Good Investigations From Mollenkamp

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 20 2012 02:31 PM

• Campaign Desk

  In South Carolina, Another Hospital/Journo Alliance New twist, old problem

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Fri Jan 20 2012 11:50 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  A Day in the Life of South Carolina’s ‘Sic Willie’ How the Palmetto State’s most read, most ribald politics blogger goes about his work

  By Erika Fry

  Fri Jan 20 2012 06:00 AM

• Letters to the Editor

  Notes From our Online Readers Readers respond to Erika Fry’s “The Romenesko Saga”

  By The Editors

  Fri Jan 20 2012 06:00 AM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: News Corp. Coverup, GOP and the Unemployed, SOPA

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jan 19 2012 09:24 PM Comments (5)

• The Observatory

  Does Big Pharma Pay Your Doctor? New federal database could be a boon for reporters … but it needs their input

  By Curtis Brainard

  Thu Jan 19 2012 02:30 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  Looking for Lessons in the Swift Boat Saga Is Ohio’s press corps prepared for the 2012 campaign?

  By T.C. Brown

  Thu Jan 19 2012 01:57 PM Comments (9)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  On Debt, Mitt’s of Two Minds A career built on it and a campaign that rails against it

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jan 19 2012 12:08 PM

• Campaign Desk

  On Bain Claims, Will Local Press Rise to the Challenge? Connecting regional audiences to the national story is hard work. It’s also important.

  By Mary Winter

  Thu Jan 19 2012 06:00 AM

• Review

  Reading Room An illustrated review of The Occupied Wall Street Journal

  By Ted Rall

  Thu Jan 19 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Gapper on SOPA, Japan’s Papers, Credit Card Antitrust

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jan 18 2012 09:24 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler

  Medicare Vouchers Explained A conversation with the Brookings Institution’s Henry Aaron

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Jan 18 2012 03:27 PM

• The Audit

  Will Fact-Checking Go the Way of Blogs?

  By Felix Salmon

  Wed Jan 18 2012 02:37 PM Comments (5)

• Second Read

  The Road Book Before Ernie Pyle went to war, he wrote about America

  By Kevin Coyne

  Wed Jan 18 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Bloomberg’s BW Investment, Jobs For Robots, NCAA Injustice

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jan 17 2012 08:02 PM

• Behind the News

  Stories I’d Like to See Campaign questions, the world’s worst government agency, and medical lobbies

  By Steven Brill

  Tue Jan 17 2012 04:28 PM Comments (1)

• Reports

  What Scientist Shortage? The Johnny-can’t-do-science myth damages US research

  By Beryl Lieff Benderly

  Tue Jan 17 2012 01:45 PM Comments (7)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Paywalls: Maybe Not So Complicated After All Thinking over Clay Shirky’s piece on the success of the NYT model

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jan 17 2012 01:21 PM Comments (8)

• Language Corner

  Intoxicating Deriving ‘drink’

  By Merrill Perlman

  Tue Jan 17 2012 12:37 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  The Out-of-Context Quote as Gaffe A closer look at coverage of “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me’”

  By Brendan Nyhan

  Tue Jan 17 2012 06:00 AM Comments (5)

• Reports

  Get Real The unlikely marriage of documentary filmmakers and reality TV

  By Alissa Quart

  Tue Jan 17 2012 06:00 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Legal Immigrants Win in Massachusetts But the political press misses the story

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Jan 16 2012 12:34 PM Comments (2)

• Currents

  Saturation Point A plethora of news outlets doesn’t mean deeper coverage

  By Michael Meyer

  Mon Jan 16 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Triple Dip; Bloomberg Terminals; Goldman, AIG, and the Fed

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 13 2012 09:45 PM Comments (4)

• Feature

  The Times and the Jews A vocal segment of American Jewry has long believed that the paper has been unfair to Israel. Here’s why—and why they’re wrong.

  By Neil Lewis

  Fri Jan 13 2012 04:20 PM Comments (30)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Famous Last Words From the Fed Assessing coverage of newly released transcripts from just before the crash

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 13 2012 02:28 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  In Florida, a Media Crush but Little News Best coverage embeds Romney’s rally in more far-reaching reporting

  By Brian E. Crowley

  Fri Jan 13 2012 12:20 PM

• The Observatory

  Critical Juncture for HuffPo Science With new section, David Freeman has an opportunity to raise the bar

  By Curtis Brainard

  Fri Jan 13 2012 12:00 PM Comments (1)

• Currents

  Hard Numbers Some stats and figures on the news industry

  By The Editors

  Fri Jan 13 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Romney’s Black Box, Banker Probe, Laffer Curveball

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jan 12 2012 08:01 PM Comments (4)

• The News Frontier

  Tell Me a Secret Soliciting leaks has its rewards, and challenges

  By Alysia Santo

  Thu Jan 12 2012 03:27 PM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Misleading Readers on Romney’s “$12 Million Teardown” The value is almost all in the land

  By Ryan Chittum

  Thu Jan 12 2012 02:43 PM Comments (6)

• Campaign Desk

  Gender Imbalance on the Campaign Trail Voters skew female; reporters still do not

  By Meryl Gordon

  Thu Jan 12 2012 01:23 PM Comments (19)

• Behind the News

  Two Years Later, Haitian Earthquake Death Toll in Dispute Journalists can do a better job reporting controversial numbers in disaster zones

  By Maura R. O'Connor

  Thu Jan 12 2012 01:04 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Nevadans Need a Closer Look at Romney’s Record Some “facts and figures” might help make the Bain debate accessible to readers

  By Jay Jones

  Thu Jan 12 2012 12:07 PM

• Editorial

  In the Dark The campaign to weaken campaign-finance disclosure laws

  By The Editors

  Thu Jan 12 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  The Banker Finds Possible “Trouble” at Chase (UPDATED) Debt-collection lawsuits dry up in at least five states, raising questions about past practices

  By Ryan Chittum

  Wed Jan 11 2012 02:13 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Primary Night on Elm Street A nightmare assignment finally draws to a close

  By Justin Peters

  Wed Jan 11 2012 12:44 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Why Might the Docs Be in a Fix? A context-light, anecdote-heavy CNNMoney story fails to mention US’s high medical costs

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Wed Jan 11 2012 11:49 AM Comments (2)

• The Observatory

  Media Made Hawking Famous Amid 70th birthday adoration, reporters ignored their role in the physicist’s celebrity

  By Declan Fahy

  Wed Jan 11 2012 10:15 AM Comments (9)

• Review

  The Tea Party Paradox A democratic movement that is anti-democratic at heart

  By Elbert Ventura

  Wed Jan 11 2012 06:00 AM Comments (6)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Kent State Court, Corporate Taxes, the Communion Wafer Industry

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jan 10 2012 07:31 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Twenty-Nine Hours on the Campaign Trail And all I got was lost. (And, chicken fingers.)

  By Justin Peters

  Tue Jan 10 2012 04:00 PM Comments (5)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Wall Street’s Toxic Touch

  By Ryan Chittum

  Tue Jan 10 2012 03:22 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Political Reporters Must Be “Good Tour Guides” A Denver Post column takes readers into the weeds

  By Mary Winter

  Tue Jan 10 2012 01:11 PM Comments (2)

• The Observatory

  Down, But Not Out? A closer look at the quantity of climate coverage in 2011

  By Curtis Brainard

  Tue Jan 10 2012 10:00 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Forget the Debates—Focus on the Air War! Journalists are looking for attacks in all the wrong places

  By Brendan Nyhan

  Tue Jan 10 2012 06:00 AM

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the Editor Readers respond to our 50th anniversary issue

  By The Editors

  Tue Jan 10 2012 06:00 AM

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: Swiped, Hit List, Journo Demographics

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jan 9 2012 07:59 PM Comments (10)

• Language Corner

  And the Word of the Year Is… Words that topped the lists

  By Merrill Perlman

  Mon Jan 9 2012 04:49 PM Comments (3)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  It’s the WSJ’s Turn on Romney’s Private Equity Record

  By Ryan Chittum

  Mon Jan 9 2012 02:34 PM Comments (4)

• The News Frontier

  Spying on Journalists is Easy Lax computer security creates easy targets

  By Alysia Santo

  Mon Jan 9 2012 12:42 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Santorum Goes After Social Security The AP covers Rick’s empty rhetoric

  By Trudy Lieberman

  Mon Jan 9 2012 12:29 PM Comments (2)

• Cover Story, The Audit

  A Narrowed Gaze How the business press forgot the rest of us

  By Dean Starkman

  Mon Jan 9 2012 06:00 AM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  A Night Out with National Review Watching the GOP debate with the conservative flagship

  By Justin Peters

  Sun Jan 8 2012 04:21 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Searching for Santorum After his surge, it’s hard to find much needed coverage of who he is and what he wants

  By Erika Fry

  Sat Jan 7 2012 10:18 AM Comments (10)

• Economic Crisis, The Audit

  Audit Notes: GE and Subprime, WaPo on Recess, Fed Fumes on Housing

  By Ryan Chittum

  Fri Jan 6 2012 08:04 PM Comments (9)