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No Coverage, Not “So Startling?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 03:17 PM
"[President Bush] was aware that his top aides met in the White House basement to micromanage the application of waterboarding... More
Us Versus Us
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 02:56 PM
Writers vs. editors! (Michael Kinsley describes that "Battle For the Ages). Print reporters vs. TV reporters! (Charles Gasparino on how... More
Not to Nitpick, But…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 01:35 PM
A List, for people who like that sort of thing: TV Week's annual ranking of the "10 Most Powerful People... More
MSNBC’s BitterGate Update
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Keeping cable viewers current on the latest exchange in the Campaign Gaffe of the Week is hard work. From the... More
Should The Press Report…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 09:38 AM
Via Michael Calderone, in the wake of recent Spitzer (and Paterson) news, Crain's New York Business polled New York voters... More
“W(h)ither the Cable Blowhard?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 08:37 AM
The most memorable moment in Mark Leibovich's New York Times magazine cover piece on Chris Matthews -- in which we... More
You Read Us! You Really Read Us!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 01:59 PM
Know how Us Weekly sometimes runs pictures of famous people - and they’re candid photos, of course - studying the... More
If You Don’t Cut That Hair…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 01:14 PM
Wondering what it takes to break into CNN? It may be a hair thing. U.S. News reports that former CNN... More
WaPo, NYT Liveblogging “Petraeuspalooza”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Both The Washington Post (military beat reporter and author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Tom Ricks) and... More
Voting Clinton? But Mooooom!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 09:20 AM
Mom. C'mon, Mom. Please? Vote for Obama. Okay? Mom? You're voting for Obama, right? Why do you hate hope? Mooooom!... More
Obama on “100-Years-War Calumny”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 08:50 AM
Obama defended (dialed-back? clarified?) his McCain's for a 100-years-war statement on the Today Show this morning (hat tip, Michael Calderone):... More
High School Newsical
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 08:17 AM
Says Amanda, the bespectacled copy editor for Cyprus Bay High School's "award-winning" newspaper, The Circuit, and star of MTV's upcoming... More
Previewing (Coverage of) Petraeus Hearing
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2008 at 02:55 PM
The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman previews the inevitable politicization of Army Gen. David H. Petraeus' and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker's... More
Foreign Policy Chops? “First Lady Puffery?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Genius! Rather than having a Clinton surrogate and an Obama surrogate duke it out over Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience... More
Report: Barry Bearak Released
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM
IC Publications is reporting that both the New York Times' Barry Bearak (who was arrested in Zimbabwe last Thursday, initially... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
