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Hillary & Barack? Barack & Hillary? No Way,You Guys!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2008 at 01:40 PM
OMG, Patrick Healy's "Political Memo" in today's New York Times? It reads so high school (or to quote a more... More
Meet the “New Force,” Same as…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM
On CNN just now: "There seems to be a new force in politics: unmarried women." "New force?" Aren't these the... More
The Latest ‘Gate (Served with Syrup!)
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM
How is it that 24 hours have ticked by since it happened and I am just now hearing about WaffleGate?... More
Peer Review (In Defense of ABC’s Debate)
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Veteran New York Times political reporter Adam Nagourney takes a stab at defending Charlie Gibson's and George Stephanopoulos' handling of... More
The Luck of the Amish
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2008 at 09:21 AM
Frequent MSNBC guest talking head, Mike Barnacle, was discussing the Democratic primary on Morning Joe just now and mentioned that... More
Preaching to Their Choirs
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2008 at 08:27 AM
On the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, Senators Clinton and Obama each spoke via satellite to what conventional wisdom calls... More
Why, Wolf, Why?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 04:01 PM
What is Wolf Blitzer "watching very closely" in the Situation Room right now? Well, according to his opening tease, he... More
Ignoring Stengel, PA Papers Endorse
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 02:55 PM
Sorry, Time magazine's Richard Stengel: newspaper endorsements are alive and well in Pennsylvania. "Obama Sweeps Newspaper Endorsements," reports The Nation... More
The “What If” Story Gone Wild
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 01:35 PM
Was anyone else puzzled by that "Gore-Lieberman" piece by John M. Broder in yesterday's New York Times "Week In Review"?... More
Cable, Try A Little Earnestness
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 12:18 PM
MSNBC, you want to catch the ear of a multi-tasking, half-listening cable TV viewer? Forget the shouting kitschy overkill of,... More
Lauren Conrad, Hallmark of News Media “Relevance”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Apparently it's not enough to employ a "celebrity" news anchor or columnist. You must also seat your celebrity news anchor... More
Counting the “Ha!’s” in a Matthews Interview
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM
How many "Ha!'s" might Chris Matthews let out during the course of a 10-question interview? I counted eight in Matthews'... More
TV News Driven By “Mentally Ill Martinets”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Virginia Heffernan profiles the Onion News Network, "a video series produced by the Onion fake-news empire:" The false news stories... More
Victoria Clarke on “Service to the Media”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 09:09 AM
Given Victoria Clarke's role in creating and carrying out that "military analysts as media Trojan horse" plan the New York... More
Rummy’s “Message Force Multipliers”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2008 at 08:19 AM
And you thought this administration had done no post-Iraq-invasion planning? About those "military analysts" you've grown accustomed to seeing on... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
