The Columbia Journalism Review — which identifies itself as “both a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms” — has endorsed FactCheck and PolitiFact as good online sites for verifying claims being made during the current debate over health care.
The Editors’…
President Barack Obama has used the term “ginned up” a couple times in recent weeks — which is a couple times more than most people. The presidential usage prompted the Columbia Journalism Review’s Merrill Perlman to investigate the phrase.
New York Times’ public editor Clark Hoyt weighed in this past weekend on recent “transgressions” by three Times journalists — Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman and Edmund Andrews. Hoyt describes the first two as “star columnists” and Andrews as an economics writer.
Phrases like…
Remember the first time you heard the words “went missing”? Chances are it wasn’t that many years ago. Remember the most recent time you heard it? Probably not that long ago.
Articles with “went missing” appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch…
The British newspaper the Guardian and the alternative-weekly Mountain Xpress in Asheville, N.C., told their readers yesterday that they were dropping their print editions and would publish exclusively via Twitter.
Those were among newspapers’ April Fools’ Day hoaxes.
The Guardian “reported” on Wednesday:
Consolidating…
Do you recall a time when sportswriting was more artful, when readers followed the work of particular writers because of its quality? (Or do those days still exist?)
A Columbia Journalism Review article — we were pointed to it by the Romenesko…
