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The Axis of Earnest
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2008 at 10:15 AM
According to the "Blogopticon" from Vanity Fair (which really means, of course, according to "high-end Hollywood dinner party gossip"), this... More
What’s Next for NBC News
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2008 at 08:29 AM
Cropping up now among the remembrances of Tim Russert (including those of Russert's remarkably poised 22-year-old son Luke, who spoke... More
WaPo on Satire and Democracy (Yadda Yadda)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 12, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Today the Washington Post weighs in on a topic that will never make any List of Underreported Stories: The Daily... More
Fox News: On The Heels of “Terrorist Fist Jab”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 12, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Michelle Obama! Come on down! You ARE the next contestant on "Kill the Witch!" As such, Fox News will attempt... More
Reflections: “Hooting” Hillary Off The Stage?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 12, 2008 at 08:26 AM
A page from Katie Couric's CBS News Reporter's Notebook yesterday, in which she declared that in the "endles" media post-mortems... More
Campaign ‘08, Newshole Hog
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 11, 2008 at 02:56 PM
Last week campaign coverage filled 50% of the overall newshole, "its third-highest level of weekly coverage in 2008," says the... More
Witch Watch
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 11, 2008 at 02:29 PM
Speaking of witches, Rachel Sklar sees one in the illustration accompanying Michael Crowley's "What Undid Hillary" piece from Sunday's LA... More
Redemption in Baghdad?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM
George Packer tells the New York Observer: The press did discredit itself in the lead-up to the war. But I... More
The “Kill The Witch” Game
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Forget Is America Ready for a Black President? Or Is America Ready for a Female President? Have you stopped to... More
Clinton Grudge List: Does It Exist?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 11, 2008 at 08:44 AM
We know journalists love lists. But does a Clinton Grudge List exist? Depends, I guess, on what your definition of... More
Russert (Et Al) Rejected! Rejoice?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Any media critic haunted by a feeling they are forever writing the equivalent of You hurt America. Don't do it... More
Friedman’s 4th Rule For Successful Web Journalism
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2008 at 10:21 AM
"Entertain." Asked to give some "tough love" to Web-wary magazine editors assembled at a recent conference, MarketWatch's Jon Friedman came... More
Fist-Bump is The New Flag Pin?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2008 at 08:36 AM
To one reporter, "the fist bump heard 'round the world" exchanged by Barack and Michelle Obama last Tuesday evening "was... More
Reporting (and Fact Checking?) “High-End Gossip”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2008 at 08:16 AM
"Lies are the new facts." So says Gina Gershon, the actress who has been seeking a retraction from Vanity Fair... More
Cable Pundit Apology Watch
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2008 at 01:35 PM
It's a sorry state of affairs on cable news, indeed. Chris Matthews...David Shuster...Liz Trotta... ...And on MSNBC just now, an... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
