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cjrdaily: Must-reads of the week
By The Editors Culled from CJRβs frequently updated βMust-reads from around the Web,β our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your canβt-miss must-reads of the past week: Obama&a...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 12:46pm -07:00T (61 words)
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cjrdaily: Live from Corruption County!
By Corey Hutchins On Thursday, the Williamson Daily News in southern West Virginia unleashed a spirited and somewhat bizarre attack on an unnamed TV news station in an editorial, accusing it of coverage that was "irresponsible at best, defamation at worst...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 11:31am -07:00T (61 words)
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cjrdaily: How West was spun
By Richard Parker AUSTIN, TX -- At 7:30 pm Eastern time on May 16, Erin Burnett turned toward the camera in CNN's New York studio and teed up the next story: "The people of West, Texas, have been waiting for a month to find out what caused the horrif...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 9:01am -07:00T (63 words)
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cjrdaily: Fortune goes long on Amazon and taxes
By Ryan Chittum I've been following the Amazon tax-avoidance story for years now, and I haven't seen it better-told than it is on the cover of the new Fortune. Peter Elkind and Doris Burke get nearly 6,000 words to tell the story, and though it&...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 4:01am -07:00T (63 words)
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cjrdaily: More than just marriage
By Jennifer Vanasco There's been a diversity of gay news this month covered in the major media, from the rash of NYC hate crimes against gay men, to the story about a Texas lesbian couple forced apart because of a morality clause in one of the partne...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 4:01am -07:00T (60 words)
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cjrdaily: Rooting out bad science
By Declan Fahy The extraordinary case of academic fraudster Diederick Stapel followed the typical narrative of a scientific scandal. A professor of social psychology at Tilburg University, he became a star researcher in his native Netherlands and abroad a...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 1:31pm -07:00T (61 words)
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cjrdaily: Who's filibustering Medicaid expansion in Nebraska?
By Deron Lee FAIRWAY, KS -- On May 15, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the state Capitol in Lincoln, NE, to protest the filibuster that has blocked a bill expanding Medicaid to 54,000 new patients in the state, in accordance with the federal Af...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 12:16pm -07:00T (62 words)
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cjrdaily: The weekly grind
By Ann Friedman A writer I greatly admire, Ta-Nehisi Coates, once offered this exercise in understanding what it's like to produce a weekly opinion column: "Spend a week counting all the original ideas you have. Then try to write each one down, in al...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:31am -07:00T (62 words)
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cjrdaily: Audit Notes: The IRS story in context, Silicon Valley oligarchs
By Ryan Chittum The bulk of the IRS scandal press coverage has been seriously devoid of the kind of context that tells readers how and why the targeting of Tea Party groups was almost certainly not a Nixonian plot from the Oval Office to intimidate politi...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:01am -07:00T (62 words)
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cjrdaily: How extreme is that legislator, really?
By Brendan Nyhan When Republican Scott Brown faced Democrat Martha Coakley in a January 2010 special election for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, he was criticized by Coakley and other Democrats as being too conservative. But was he really a conservative ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:01am -07:00T (61 words)
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cjrdaily: Pass the #popcorn
By Sara Morrison According to a recent Pew study, 16 percent of adults online use Twitter -- 8 percent daily. I'm pretty sure most of that 8 percent are journalists. Journalists love Twitter, whether using it for writing, conversation, or fighting. A...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 3:46pm -07:00T (62 words)
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cjrdaily: In Pittsburgh campaign, ad buy files prove mayor's involvement
By Anna Clark DETROIT, MI -- About three weeks before the May 21 mayoral primary in Pittsburgh, an attack ad against a leading Democratic candidate, city councilmember Bill Peduto, hit the air. "We need a mayor for all of Pittsburgh. Not just Bill Peduto&...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 12:01pm -07:00T (62 words)
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cjrdaily: True the Coverage
By Mariah Blake Just about everyone in Washington agrees that the IRS's blanket targeting of Tea Party groups by keying on words in their titles was, at best, misguided. But that doesn't mean that every Tea Party organization that found itself u...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:31am -07:00T (62 words)
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cjrdaily: Silver linings newscasts
By Jane McManus Like everyone else this week, I was transfixed by the tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma. The devastation was quick and, in some neighborhoods, complete. I streamed local coverage of the event from KFOR and over the course of Monday afternoon noti...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:31am -07:00T (63 words)
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cjrdaily: Bloggers for hire on a penny-stock pump and dump
By Ryan Chittum The Motley Fool's Brian Richards posts a fascinating look inside the pump and dump world of penny-stock promoters, reporting how the hype machine worked in the case of a shell company called Goff Corporation. Richards describes Goff a...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 4:31am -07:00T (62 words)
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