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Who’s Gaining Ground In “The News Game”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2008 at 09:29 AM
Nightly network news ratings for the first half of 2008 are down from the year prior and broadcasters saw no... More
War “Monuments”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2008 at 08:47 AM
Clark Hoyt, the New York Times' public editor, wrote yesterday: Two hundred twenty-one American soldiers and Marines have been killed... More
Do Wear Tennis Whites, Don’t Talk To Reporters
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 31, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Among the things members of the Phoneix Country Club are forbidden to do: 1) Use foul language or wear capri... More
Ohio Papers: McCain’s “Celeb” Ad? “Zero” Truth
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 31, 2008 at 08:27 AM
A group of newspapers in Ohio (a Battleground State, you recall) is rating campaign ads on a scale* of 0... More
A Little Bit Louder Now (Shout)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 31, 2008 at 08:14 AM
The Presidential Campaign as Experienced on Cable News over the past 24 hours (though it’s not just cable and it’s... More
When “News” Becomes News
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 30, 2008 at 02:12 PM
First it was a report of a woman's eye maimed by her own faulty thong. Then it was the story... More
Dress For The Job You Want?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 30, 2008 at 12:46 PM
First, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank catches one of the guys running for president Acting Presidential again. "Barack Obama has... More
MoDo On Team Obama: Such Good Sports!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM
As Obama's World Tour wound down, Maureen Dowd was on hand to observe (and then to share with us in... More
Pity, That
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 30, 2008 at 08:44 AM
In a piece about how John McCain has and should handle his status as onetime campaign press "it" candidate running... More
(MS)NBC Reaches For More Gravitas for Earthquake Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2008 at 03:03 PM
I was just watching a female reporter on MSNBC reporting about about the earthquake that has apparently just struck the... More
For “Inactive Grannies”… There’s Always 2012?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2008 at 02:03 PM
Someone's still willing to pay for (or, at least willing to lend a platform for) "advice" from Mark J. Penn.... More
The Economy: No One “Pouncing”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM
In his New York Times column today Bob Herbert writes that the economy "is the issue on which the Obama... More
Barefoot and Blogging (In NYT Styles)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Location! Location! Location! Sometimes, stories about blogging and bloggers make the New York Times' front-page. A-1. Juxtaposed with the critical... More
Chris Matthews’s Heroic Refusal To Discuss Robert Novak
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2008 at 08:41 AM
From a (Harrisburg, PA) Patriot-News profile of Chris Matthews packed with will-he-or-won't-he-run-for-Senate speculation: A Senate run would demand discipline, said... More
“Media Frenzy” Explains Further Frenzied Media
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 28, 2008 at 02:43 PM
Washington Post ombudswoman Deborah Howell declares her paper's Chandra Levy series "not worth 13 days, all on page 1," adding... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
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.
