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Press Release: Bestest Republican National Convention Ever!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 22, 2008 at 11:48 AM
I don't know why I was even initially startled, given Today's Media Environment. But: today, six weeks before the Republican... More
Fourth Place For Last Week’s New Yorker Cover
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 22, 2008 at 11:19 AM
According to the new PEJ study, last week's New Yorker cover* only came in fourth in quantity of press coverage... More
Obama’s “Hope” During “Presser”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 22, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Barack Obama in response to a question just now during his press conference in Jordan (I couldn't hear the question,... More
Veepstakes Hometown Dates
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 22, 2008 at 08:55 AM
Last night, Jon Stewart compared Obama's courting of the press prior to and during his overseas trip to the reality... More
I Bought My “Table Of Contents For the World” From Barack Obama
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2008 at 02:42 PM
Per Lyn Sweet: During one school year at Columbia, Obama was a telemarketer in midtown Manhattan selling New York Times... More
Goodbye To Most Of That
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2008 at 01:56 PM
The LA Times reportedly will replace its Sunday Book Review with "a smaller number of pages appended to the Calendar... More
If You Ask A Superficial Question…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2008 at 01:12 PM
MSNBC teasing a segment on Obama's overseas travel: Will this trip add enough meat to his foreign policy experience to... More
LAT Still Hasn’t Found What NYT Looking For
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM
"Obama spoofers walk a fine line," reports today's LA Times. Didn't the New York Times tell us this last Tuesday... More
How (When?) To Overshare on the Cover of NYT Magazine
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Remember when ex-Gawker employee Emily Gould overshared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine? When she, in the... More
CNBC’s “Ultimate Growth Stock” Wants To Know
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2008 at 08:46 AM
I'm no economist, but I think I have an answer to the question Erin Burnett, the 32-year-old CNBC anchor whom... More
McCain: Good Sport? Grump?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Like my colleague Katia, the LA Times' James Rainey, too, called up some editorial cartoonists recently (we did it in... More
ObamaGuy?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 17, 2008 at 11:22 AM
More "tasteless and offensive" political satire (h/t NRO Media Blog). More
I’m Getting A New Seatmate! (Please Be Brian Williams!)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 17, 2008 at 09:18 AM
Plenty of meaty topics for political reporters to probe as Sen. Obama prepares to travel across the pond and beyond.... More
On MSNBC: “It’s Come To This”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Contessa Brewer on MSNBC this morning: "Hillary Clinton had a new look when she showed up for a big speech*... More
The -Gate That Got Away
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 16, 2008 at 09:44 AM
As self-appointed -Gate-keepers, I wanted to acknowledge that we missed one last week (a -Gated -Gate, no less): Brandenburg Gate-Gate,... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
