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Dead Magazines Slideshow
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 28, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Silicon Alley Insider's Business Insider has a slideshow "of magazines shuttered in the current recession" (nitpick: "the current recession" officially... More
Why Michelle Obama “Impresses German Women”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 28, 2009 at 03:01 PM
More Michelle Obama's First 100 Days Coverage! CNN International has, in cnnpolitics.com's "The 44th President First 100 Days" section, a... More
The Most 2009 Story Kicker of the Year (So Far)?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Now that we have contenders for "Most 2009 Headline of the Year (So Far)," how about this, from WWD, for... More
“The Most 2009 Headline of the Year”? (Already?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM
"The most 2009 headline of the year comes courtesy of CNN.com: 'Swine flu creates controversy on Twitter'," Twitters Keith Phipps,... More
About That Low-Flying Plane “Photo-Op”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 28, 2009 at 09:55 AM
From the (print only) New York Times today, byline A.G. Sulzberger and Matthew L. Wald: Neither the White House nor... More
Douthat’s Eye-Grabbing Debut NYT Column
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 28, 2009 at 09:24 AM
"Cheney For President" is the attention-grabbing headline of Ross Douthat's inaugural New York Times column today (web only). Once Douthat... More
Fox Won’t Air Presidential News Conference
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2009 at 04:21 PM
From the AP: The Fox network is sticking with its regular schedule over President Barack Obama this week. The network... More
“From Terrifying Tweet to News Report— In 4 Minutes”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2009 at 02:44 PM
Nieman Lab's Zachary M. Seward explains. Also: at the White House press briefing just now, MSNBC's Chuck Todd asked Robert... More
“100-Day Milestone” Falls Victim to Swine Flu?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2009 at 01:48 PM
From the Washington Post: "Swine Flu Crisis May Overshadow 100-Day Milestone." After all, "swine flu has dominated headlines for the... More
AP on Michelle’s 100 Days “Transformation”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2009 at 01:03 PM
CJR's Jane Kim to political reporters gearing up for Wednesday (you know, President Obama's 100th Day? Report card day?): "Let’s... More
Does CNN Need To “Make It Sexy?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Reports Bill Carter of the New York Times: In March, CNN averaged 328,000 viewers in prime time among the audience... More
Condé Nast Closes Portfolio
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Condé Nast is ceasing publication of Portfolio, the glossy business magazine (and 2008 National Magazine Award winner). A brief post... More
Shep Smith: “We Do Not F*&#ing Torture!”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Watch the video below of Shep (Smith) talking torture with colleagues Trace (Gallagher) and Judge (Napolitano) yesterday on Fox News's... More
Stephanopoulos’s “Get”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM
ABC News's George Stephanopoulous blogs about his sit-down yesterday with the president of Iran (who is up for re-election in... More
Seat At The Table
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Time photographer Callie Shell snapped a photo of the seating chart (think red velvet and calligraphy, not notepad paper) for... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
