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Shafer v. Anonymice (Take 47)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 16, 2008 at 09:30 AM
Which reporter in which major newspaper recently granted anonymity to a source for a quotation, the lot about which Jack... More
WaPo-Induced Flashback
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2008 at 04:44 PM
Surely I'm not the only person who thought I'd clicked on an old washingtonpost.com link -- like, one from 2001... More
More Testosterone for NBC, Less for MSNBC?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2008 at 02:53 PM
I'm probably just still recovering from last week's Nuts-Gate, but a pair of passages stood out to me from two... More
Nine More Minutes of New Yorker “Cover Story” Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Adding to what Katia said yesterday: In a ten-minute interview on last night's Hardball (airtime shared with Ron Brownstein of... More
Good Catch, Mika! (Was That So Hard?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2008 at 08:47 AM
A breath of fresh air on MSNBC this morning (fresh not just for MSNBC, but for political reporting in general).... More
Not Laughing At The New Yorker Cover Cartoon?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2008 at 08:31 AM
Well, how about this one, located safely inside this week's issue, complete with caption (additional hint: panhandlers are not the... More
AP’s Accountability Adviser To Be “Player-Coach”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2008 at 04:27 PM
At Politico, Michael Calderone ponders whether the Associated Press's acting Washington bureau chief, Ron Fournier, is "saving or destroying the... More
Veepstakes: We Have a Winner!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2008 at 03:58 PM
"MSNBC.com users have chosen Mitt Romney" as John McCain's running-mate (in that online Veepstakes game). What? You're waiting to see... More
That New Yorker Cover (Fox News’ Take and More)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2008 at 09:23 AM
There is something both disturbing and hilarious about listening to Fox News (of "terrorist fist jab" and not-so-subtly-digitally-altered-photos-of-New York Times-reporters-who-wrote-ill-of-Fox-News... More
Tell Me, As The Paper’s Editor of “Visual News,” What Do You Do?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 10, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Our minds are already "down there" today, so why not have a look at what my colleague just called "the... More
Media’s Mixed “Nuts” (a.ka. “A Base Phrase”-Gate)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 10, 2008 at 08:45 AM
This marks the third time* this campaign season the press has had to tackle the question of How To Report... More
What Else Can I Do With All This Spin?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2008 at 03:20 PM
The Boston Globe's Brian Mooney shows how the spin flows with a minute-by-minute chronology of A Day of Campaign Spin... More
Pollster On That John McCanine Poll
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2008 at 02:43 PM
Pollster's Mark Blumenthal awards Worst In Show to the Associated Press's interpretation of its own poll (not to mention the... More
No More Malia And Sasha (You Blew It, Cable)!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2008 at 12:50 PM
There will be no more interviews with Barack Obama's adorable young daughters, Malia and Sasha. No more chances to find... More
AP on McCain on Budget Deficit: Points For Trying?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM
How's this framing of The Candidates Dueling Economic Plans for the press giving McCain a "mad pass" (Josh Marshall's words)... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
