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Wag the Finger
Angry Bill: From embeds’ eyes to pundits’ lips
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 19, 2008 at 04:42 PM
It's been a bumpy campaign season thus far, PR-wise, for MSNBC. One potential bright spot: yesterday, MSNBC owned the story... More
An Obama “Embed” on Access, Inspiration, Oppo
And what not to ask her
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 15, 2008 at 09:13 AM
Aswini Anburajan is a twenty-seven-year-old campaign reporter (a.k.a. “embed”) who has been traveling with Barack Obama’s campaign for NBC News/National... More
Who’s Afraid of 60 Minutes?
No worries for the candidates
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 12, 2008 at 02:16 PM
How do you make thirteen of 60 Minutes feel like an eternity? Sic Katie Couric on Senator Hillary Clinton. What... More
There Will Be Losers
Cable talkers see to it
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 6, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Yes, there were the familiar color-coded cutouts of Super Tuesday states flashing on the screen as they were called (and... More
“Chutzpah!” “Hoopla!” “Ambush!” Victory?
Reporting the Democratic results in Florida
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 31, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Tuesday afternoon we wondered—as some campaign reporters were themselves wondering—how the campaign press might cover the Democratic results in Florida.... More
Covering A Non-Victory Victory in Florida
“What will we do? We’re the media, right?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 29, 2008 at 05:55 PM
How will reporters tonight and tomorrow cover the Democratic results in Florida, a state that will award no delegates (for... More
Handshaking, Hand-Clapping, Eye-Rolling
All you need to know about SOTU
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 29, 2008 at 09:56 AM
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and John King shared this insightful exchange minutes after President Bush concluded his State of the Union... More
But For the Zapf Dingbats
Fred Thompson’s campaign might have really caught on
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Talk about typecast! Turns out even Mitt Romney's logo is "inconsistent." This, according to graphic designers Sam Berlow and Cyrus... More
To Check The Facts, You Need The Facts
MSNBC’s fact-check segment falls short
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 24, 2008 at 11:08 AM
When factchecking candidates’ claims and counter-claims, there is a fine line between mitigating and multiplying the confusion. You need to... More
OMG, MSNBC!
Worst. Cable. Segment. Ever?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 23, 2008 at 05:04 PM
When you sit around watching cable news coverage of the presidential campaign all day long like it's your job (oh... More
B-I-Double-Hockey-Sticks
Is there anything he can(‘t) do?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 22, 2008 at 11:26 AM
The campaign press and punditry certainly has had a lot to say of late about Bill Clinton's role in Senator... More
There’s No “I” in Debate Moderator
Someone tell Tim Russert
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 16, 2008 at 05:07 PM
Not thirty minutes into last night's Democratic debate, a heckler was heard interrupting the show from somewhere out in the... More
The Sky is Falling!
Tell me something I don’t know
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 16, 2008 at 02:43 PM
You've got to pity the reporter writing the morning paper's straight news account of an event that happened the night... More
Press Plays Vegas, Again
Clichés Away!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 15, 2008 at 05:56 PM
The Democratic candidates are back in Nevada and "The Best Political Team on Television" is back to its abuse of... More
The Anti-Chris Matthews Vote
And how it sparked some media soul-searching (though not from Matthews)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 9, 2008 at 05:13 PM
As my colleague Gal Beckerman observed earlier today, with last night's New Hampshire victory, Hillary beat the press. Meanwhile, the... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
