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Is All Settled with NBC’s To Catch A Predator Series?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 26, 2008 at 10:47 AM
Per the New York Times, "NBC has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who killed himself... More
Found: An “Old Media Triumph”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 26, 2008 at 08:38 AM
McClatchy's John Walcott would like us all to see its "Guantánamo: Beyond the Law" series, in part, as evidence of... More
Butt, MSNBC!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 25, 2008 at 01:20 PM
Last week, Megan ">wrote about what she called MSNBC's "thong day's journey into night," wherein a report about a woman... More
AP: OC Register To Outsource Copy Editing
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM
"Outsourced Edit?" is the headline of a short piece by Ben Frumin in the current issue of CJR about Express... More
NYT Goes National Geographic
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 25, 2008 at 09:56 AM
That (New York Times goes National Geographic) was the reaction of one of my co-workers to the Times completely fascinating... More
Men Covering Men (Covered By Men)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 25, 2008 at 09:25 AM
Elizabeth Holmes, of the Wall Street Journal's "Washington Wire," notices she's the only woman in the McCain traveling press corps... More
Let’s Simplify And Go With “Talking Head”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 25, 2008 at 08:36 AM
If you always suspected that those cable talking head classifications (political contributor? strategist? analyst?) were arbitrary and about as meaningful... More
Pop-Up Video, Meet the Press
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 24, 2008 at 01:12 PM
When asked on Sunday's Meet The Press if he's "interested in being vice president," after some back-and-forth with Brian Williams,... More
Two More Media Players On Russert’s Replacement
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 24, 2008 at 11:43 AM
For people who find this sort of thing urgent. Arianna Huffington has broken her silence. And waded carefully into the... More
That Obama Guy? He’s Totally Talking About You
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 24, 2008 at 09:07 AM
Anything that Karl Rove says in an election year is news. And so, on blogs and on cable everyone is... More
MSNBC Hits FW on RNC Attack Email
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2008 at 04:24 PM
Sigh. We've reached the part of the campaign season (if we hadn't already, I've lost track) where the RNC issuing... More
Broder, Woodward, WaPo (Surprise!?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM
A deep cynic might read Ken Silverstein's recent reporting on David Broder and Bob Woodward having collected speaking fees (and... More
Fox & Friends’ Advocacy Journalism
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Yes, morning news shows offer ripe, low-hanging fruit for media critics. Yes, Fox News in particular revels in the Regular... More
NYT Public Editor Misses The Trouble With Dowd
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2008 at 08:40 AM
"[B]y assailing Clinton in gender-heavy terms in column after column" -- 28 of 44 columns since Jan. 1 --"[Maureen Dowd]... More
Politico: Press’s “Dear Obama” Letter on Lack of Access
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 19, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Per Politico, the late Tim Russert was one of several journalists who signed a June 6 letter to the Obama... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
