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No Hair!
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2008 at 12:14 PM
From Politico today (in an "according to executives" report that David Gregory will be named moderator of Meet the Press):... More
“Plenty of Viewers”= Me, Some Say
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2008 at 11:46 AM
When Alessandra Stanley writes of Hillary Clinton's acceptance yesterday of the nomination for Secretary of State, "[F]or plenty of viewers,... More
Phoning In Mumbai Coverage?
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2008 at 11:04 AM
I've written before about MSNBC being "The Place For," among other things, "Disturbing Video." If there's "video," and it's "disturbing,"... More
On Reporting In Iraq
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2008 at 09:17 AM
NPR's Ivan Watson recounts his (and three colleagues') narrow escape from a "sticky bomb" placed under their car on Sunday... More
Learn About Lashkar
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2008 at 07:57 AM
Lashkar-e-Taiba? That name that keeps popping up in the reporting on the Mumbai attacks? At newyorker.com, Steve Coll blogs about... More
Tale of Two Porches
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 1, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Yes, the words were written "by Alex Kuczynski" (it says so in black just beside the title of the New... More
Ah Yes, The “Split Up The White Guys” Strategy
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 1, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Some post-unveiling-of-national-security-team-press-conference commentary on MSNBC: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Clearly [the team] has the picture we're looking for. The many faces of... More
“Team” Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 1, 2008 at 09:44 AM
Who made The Team? You know, The "Team of Rivals?" We'll finally find out, at a press conference in a... More
TV News Vets
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 1, 2008 at 08:59 AM
"In Hard Times for TV Anchors, Trusted Older Faces Fade Out," reports the New York Times' Brian Stelter today, pointing... More
Tragic
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 26, 2008 at 10:01 AM
From Celia W. Dugger on A1 of today's New York Times: A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the... More
MeetThePressStakes
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 26, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Ted Koppel leaves Discovery a few months before his contract expires (Koppel: "Producing our kind of news-related programs is an... More
Turkey of A Headline
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 25, 2008 at 01:37 PM
It's only Tuesday, but here's a contender in the Are You Kidding Me With This Thanksgiving-Themed News Report? Contest (which... More
Obama Makes It Up To Reporters
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 25, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Another day. Another presidential(-elect) economic news conference in Chicago. Four more questions fielded. Follow-ups? No. Make-ups? Yes. Today, President-Elect Obama... More
Wait, Must John Roberts Tie?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Yesterday, Megan highlighted CNN's reporting on the question of whether its own John Roberts should ever again appear on-air sans... More
The Pundits On The Bus (Go, “Blah Blah Blah”)
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 25, 2008 at 10:05 AM
For AJR, Paul Farhi explores the present and future of campaign trail reporting: Michael Shear, who will cover the Obama... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
