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NYT’s Zimbabwe Coverage (What “Deterioration” Means)
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM
A reminder of what, generally, we stand to lose as newspapers close overseas bureaus and otherwise cut back on foreign... More
NJ “Plog” “Shuns Web, And Thrives”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 22, 2008 at 09:18 AM
The TriCityNews, an Asbury Park, NJ alt weekly with a print run of 10,000, "is prospering precisely because it ignores... More
“I Saw Someone On Cable Say This…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM
... were Obama campaign manager David Plouffe's "least favorite words in the English language," according to Mark Leibovich's profile of... More
Counting Questions
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 17, 2008 at 04:43 PM
Number of questions President-Elect Obama has taken at press conferences since being elected? 48 The Washington Times' Christina Bellatoni is... More
We’re “Harboring” Ex-Journos Here
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 17, 2008 at 04:35 PM
Over at Slate, Jack Shafer gives a shout-out of sorts to our "Parting Thoughts" series: Hardly a day goes by,... More
Scarborough’s “Big Apology” to NYT
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 17, 2008 at 01:09 PM
The bee in Joe Scarborough's bonnet this morning? This story -- "Obama's $10 Billion Promise Stirs Hope In Early Education"... More
Spitzer: Being a Columnist “Sucks”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM
"It sucks. I used to be governor of New York," http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2008/12/eliot-spitzer-shows-his-face-in-chinatown/">said a smiling Eliot Spitzer to John Gapper, the Financial... More
Sight For Sore Eyes on CNN
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM
No, not Anderson Cooper. A visual calm (well, not quite that) has come to CNN. The cable network has retired... More
Cheney to ABC News: “I’m Guilty”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 16, 2008 at 09:21 AM
Sensational, out-of-context headline? I'm guilty. Here's how Vice President Cheney came to utter the words, "I'm guilty" during his "first... More
Bush On Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journo: “I Don’t Know What His Beef Is”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 15, 2008 at 09:25 AM
"Amusing," "interesting" and "weird" is how Pres. Bush, in an interview with ABC News's Martha Raddatz, described the incident over... More
Surowiecki: “The Real Problem For Newspapers?” “Us”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 15, 2008 at 08:52 AM
The real problem for newspapers, in other words, isn’t the Internet; it’s us. We want access to everything, we want... More
Blago’s Mother Knows Best?
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 11, 2008 at 10:35 AM
ABC News highlights 2006 footage of Gov. Blagojevich speaking at a Democratic Party event in Chicago in which he mentions... More
Fox News Is Google’s Sixth “Fastest Rising” Search
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 11, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Google "looked at the most popular searches conducted for 11 months of 2008 (we compile this list by early December)... More
889 Minus 64 at NPR
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 11, 2008 at 09:21 AM
From the Washington Post: Faced with a sharp decline in revenue, National Public Radio said Wednesday it will pare back... More
Warning: Endorsing Obama May Cause Serious Weight Gain
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 10, 2008 at 04:59 PM
Maybe you've heard? That other news out of Chicago this week? "Oprah says she weighs 200 pounds?" And she's "saying"... 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.
