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Tony Blair, Elizabeth Edwards and “Normal People”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 19, 2004 at 10:31 AM
Monday mornings mean, among other things, that there's an entire weekend's worth of press output over which "pretend journalists" can... More
Points for Pointing Out Press Parroting Points
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 16, 2004 at 03:06 PM
Last night, "The Daily Show"'s John Stewart tickled Campaign Desk's fancy with his segment on two of our pet topics:... More
Softballs for the Prez, Cookies for the Press
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2004 at 03:25 PM
Last week, the National Journal's William Powers wondered why the political press doesn't cover campaign events like the highly staged... More
In the War Room
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2004 at 05:44 PM
Two reporters from big-shot newspapers were, to the certain envy of their peers everywhere, granted one-day backstage passes to the... More
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 13, 2004 at 12:27 PM
No need to read both Newsweek and Time in your dentist's waiting room this week. Once again, the two newsweeklies... More
Press Can’t Keep Hands Off Non-Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 12, 2004 at 01:52 PM
Every day, campaign "stories" (or storylines) concocted in the shadowy back alleys of the world wide web seep into the... More
Sorry, We’ve Gone to the Movies
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2004 at 12:15 PM
Imagine, for a moment, a political press corps that approached and covered presidential campaigns like the high-budget Hollywood spectacles that... More
Elizabeth Edwards Gets the Once-Over Lightly
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2004 at 02:42 PM
A vacuum yawns before the campaign press. With the veepstakes at last put to bed, how ever will political reporters... More
C Is For Cookie (Or Maybe C-Minus)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 6, 2004 at 05:26 PM
While pundits digest the news of a Kerry-Edwards ticket (and regurgitate both campaigns' talking points on the matter), Campaign Desk... More
Reporters Touch Down in Small Towns
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 2, 2004 at 02:09 PM
On Monday, Campaign Desk pointed to a Washington Post piece nominating the "hook and bullet" crowd (hunting and fishing enthusiasts,... More
Press Girds Loins as Big Time Leaves Undisclosed Location
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 1, 2004 at 03:24 PM
The vice president, it seems, has cursed his way back onto reporters' radar screens. Whether prompted by the f-word episode... More
Says Who? Says You
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 30, 2004 at 12:02 PM
It's only Wednesday, but The Boston Globe's Glen Johnson is already in the hunt for this week's unsupported lead prize.... More
Profiles in Source Greasing
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2004 at 02:09 PM
Having done the veepstakes to death, awaiting the conventions or another naughty word from a White House official, what's a... More
Hooking This Week’s Cliche
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2004 at 03:19 PM
Every few weeks, campaign reporters go fishing for the new new thing -- that elusive cluster of voters with a... More
Kerry: Beauty and the Beast
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2004 at 12:15 PM
By Liz Cox Barrett Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a senator named John who... 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.
