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Rove’s Exit
Nothing left to say? Says who?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 14, 2007 at 05:24 PM
Last night, Josh Marshall mused: Is it me or is the most remarkable thing about Karl Rove's resignation that it... More
How Does GMA Love YouTube? Let Us Count The Ways
Some television news producers are falling in love with the free — if decidedly unnewsworthy — content on the Web.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 26, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Ah, television news' infatuation with YouTube goes on (wherein lazy producers fill air time with amateur video, hoping to pass... More
A Girl’s Got the Gavel! But What’s She Wearing?
Despite being an accomplished, powerful woman, some members of the press still can’t get over the fact that she’s, you know, a girl.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 24, 2007 at 04:16 PM
Here we were, wishfully thinking that the appearance of a certain New York Times' Thursday Style article last week ("Speaking... More
Bloomberg to Press: Write What You’re Told
Mayor Bloomberg’s press aides laid down some ground rules yesterday when announcing some new initiatives, and most of the media played along.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 18, 2007 at 03:44 PM
You're mayor of New York City. It's the day before your annual "State of the City" address. You want certain... More
The Perils of Compassion Fatigue
Can reporters cover the daily grind of death and destruction in Iraq with an unwavering urgency, while not falling into a war-as-entertainment approach?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 17, 2007 at 12:46 PM
The fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq is swiftly approaching. According to a recent Pentagon assessment, attacks against... More
Have Video, Will Air It
Hey, TV news producers and reporters: Absurd amateur video footage does not a news story make.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 10, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Hey, TV news producers and reporters: Absurd amateur video footage does not a news story make. All three networks (plus... More
We Report (What Pat Robertson Says God Told Him), You Decide
For cable news, the televangelist’s eye-grabbing prediction for 2007 was a gift from the gods.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 3, 2007 at 05:12 PM
For cable news, it was a gift from the gods (or, rather from God, via televangelist Pat Robertson) -- an... More
Newsweek Ignores Its Own Poll, Launches ‘08 Race
If you want to know what Newsweek’s recent Election 2008-related poll found, try reading the New York Post or Newsday.
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 20, 2006 at 12:47 PM
In the thick of Jonathan Alter’s Newsweek cover story this week -- headline, “The Race Is On. Obama & Hillary... More
Jesus Christ, Cover Star
It’s that time of year again for the newsweeklies: Christ-as-Cover-Boy time. How has the Jesus Cover Story been packaged over the years? How has it changed (or not)?
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 14, 2006 at 01:35 PM
It's that time of year again for the newsweeklies: Christ-as-Cover-Boy time. Jesus, of course, is as reliably evergreen a cover... More
“Boomlets” Abound at New York Mag
This week’s magazine reports on the “Bloomberg 2008 boomlet,” contributing to said boomlet with a cover story pronouncing that Bloomberg is “serious” about a presidential run in ‘08.
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 6, 2006 at 01:10 PM
This week, New York magazine's John Heilemann reports on what he dubs the "[Michael] Bloomberg 2008 boomlet," contributing to said... More
“Bad News” Media Strike Again
We don’t know what “media” Neil Cavuto was consuming, but we couldn’t escape the Black Friday excitement in the press — in outlets from sea to shining sea.
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 28, 2006 at 04:48 PM
Chris Matthews’ end-of-program, seated-upon-a-stool Sunday musings on NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show (recent quote: “Celebrity, celebrity, it's crawling all over... More
More Evidence That Non-Stop News Is Win-Win
It’s the day before Thanksgiving, which means cable news channels are running a continuous loop of generally useless pre-Turkey Day travel reports.
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 22, 2006 at 03:46 PM
It's the day before Thanksgiving, which means that cable news channels are running a continuous loop of generally useless day-before-Thanksgiving... More
“Envy Malaise” Grips Awestruck Journalists
Today we give thanks for something that American journalism is doing well of late: allocating resources to examining jealousy in the economic stratosphere.
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 22, 2006 at 12:00 PM
With Thanksgiving nigh, let us take a break from the journo-scolding for a moment to give thanks for something that... More
A Fistfight (or Two) a Day
A week after the midterms and it’s back to business on cable news — the business of hyping fluff, that is.
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 16, 2006 at 05:17 PM
A week after the midterms and it's back to business on cable news -- the business of beat-downs, that is.... More
Why Are These Two Men Still Talking?
This morning, Terry McAuliffe and Ken Mehlman squared off on the Today Show. Again.
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 7, 2006 at 03:40 PM
As predicted back on October 25, we had not then seen the last of McAuliffe v. Mehlman (in which television... 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)
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.
