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Carney, (R)evolved
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Jay Carney used to think, as he said last year on MSNBC, that Joe Biden is "incredibly prone to say... More
Is This “Healthful?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2009 at 09:25 AM
Yesterday, the New York Times Dining section ran a piece headlined, "Michelle Obama's Agenda Includes Healthful Eating." Which reminded me... More
Douthat To Fill Kristol’s NYT Op-Ed Slot
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Word has it that the Atlantic's Ross Douthat will be picking up where Bill Kristol left off at the New... More
Meghan McCain Sees You “Sit[ting] Around,” WH Press Corps
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 02:19 PM
On Hannity last night, Fox News's Sean Hannity aired "a little highlight reel" from Robert Gibbs' "first 50 days as... More
NYT Corrects Itself (102 Years, 11 Months On)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 01:49 PM
The New York Times published a correction today to an article from April 30, 1906. Apparently, an 84-year-old watch repairman,... More
Joan, The Teenage Socialist
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Salon's Joan Walsh (who "used to be a socialist, I think") is "honestly ambivalent" about whether the New York Times's... More
Where Was The NYT on Freeman?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Greg Sargent at The Plum Line asks why big news organizations, particularly the New York Times "didn't touch" the "Chas... More
First Lady On The Catwalk (Covered and Not)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 09:31 AM
The New Yorker this week http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2009-03-16">places Michelle Obama on a runway (cover illustration by Floc'h) smilingly showcasing assorted sherbet-colored fashions.... More
Credit The Airbrushers!
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2009 at 01:26 PM
The New York Times has a video op-ed in which a filmmaker named Jesse Epstein makes a case (and, really,... More
The More We Twitter…
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2009 at 12:11 PM
... the less we, probably, blog -- and comment directly on others' blogs, and, generally, muse in the blogosphere about... More
“Maybe Jon Stewart Can Tell Us What The Markets Are Going To Do”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Where to begin? So much to discuss about the discussion just after 7:30 this morning around the crowded Morning Joe... More
Buckley’s Good News
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 04:29 PM
"Tired of bad news," Christopher Buckley provides at The Daily Beast what the "universe will not:" "good news," in the... More
The Headline You’re Dealt
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 03:58 PM
Maybe I was distracted by something in Howard Kurtz's piece about how the Obama administration is reaching out to "minority... More
Still Fighting The Last Battle
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 01:05 PM
The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, who confesses that "early adoption isn't my thing," explains for the magazine's cover story why... More
The President Likes “The Feel Of A Newspaper”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM
"Are you a socialist?" may be the most-discussed of the questions the New York Times posed during its first formal... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
