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How To Start NY Media Salivating
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 02:05 PM
Hi, reporter for important New York news outlet? Let's say the wife of a founder of Google founded a genetic... More
Part 1 of Fox on “First Dude?” Meatless
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 01:04 PM
Turns out, Part 2 of what Fox News's on-screen graphic promised would be "Greta Goes to Alaska to Discover the... More
“First Dude” Dodges Fox News’s “Are You Cold” Queries
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Gibson's "Get" wasn't the only one to be gotten. Fox News's Greta Van Susteren got the "first interview" with Todd... More
Conduct Unbecoming
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Richard Cohen in today's Washington Post: John McCain has "soiled" his "integrity." And, according to Cohen, "the precise moment of... More
‘PigGate Places Second?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 09:17 AM
Last week? Very "Palin-centric," according to PEJ's News Coverage Index, which shows Palin starring as "the focal point of the... More
If Hairstyles Could Talk
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 03:58 PM
Boston-based hair stylists have had their say. The LA Times's fashion critic, too, http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/what_feeling_do_you_get_from_p.php">has spoken. Now, the New York Times'... More
Galveston (And Beyond)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 03:40 PM
There is much to report, from coastal Texas, on what Hurricane Ike wrought. And no shortage of journalists there to... More
Covering “Thanks, But No Thanks”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 12:56 PM
"Thanks, but no thanks." Gov. Sarah Palin is still saying it on the stump. She said it over the weekend... More
What Campaign Trail Bubble?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM
The Washington Post 's E.J. Dionne: I can't believe how small a role our economic crisis is playing in the... More
“Even Karl Rove”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Pssst, campaign reporters! Permission to say that the McCain campaign has, perhaps, on occasion, stretched the truth: granted! It's ok... More
The Sky Is Falling (Below The Fold)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 10:27 AM
What do you lead with today? With the sky falling in American finance (and the sky having just barely cleared... More
Imagined: Couric on Palin
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 09:13 AM
David Carr imagines a Couric-on-Palin interview: It is telling that when the McCain campaign was looking for a soft place... More
Bill’s Back! From Liability to “Swami”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM
On MSNBC this morning: JOE SCARBOROUGH: Barack Obama's biggest mistake in the campaign thus far may have been the fact... More
Our “Trouble” With Lies
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 11, 2008 at 11:28 AM
As Michael Kinsley ">sees it: In a democracy, obvious lies and obvious liars should be self-defeating. Why aren’t they? One... More
Sheepish, Bullish on ‘PigGate
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Last night, it was with a certain sheepishness that Anderson Cooper kicked off AC360 with, natch, talk of 'PigGate: COOPER:... 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.
