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Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad, Press Coverage Really Bad
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2004 at 12:19 PM
All happy political animals are alike, but each unhappy political animal is unhappy in its own way. Today, the Political... More
Reporters: Asset, or Achilles’ Heel?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 17, 2004 at 05:47 PM
Campaign Desk has commented more than once on the increasingly stale media debate: Teresa Heinz Kerry, asset or Achilles' heel?... More
What We Would Do If We Were You
By Liz Cox Barrett May 17, 2004 at 11:46 AM
Advice may be more agreeable in the mouth (or, in this case, on the keyboard) than in the ear, but... More
Fear and Gnawing in Palm Beach
By Liz Cox Barrett May 7, 2004 at 02:12 PM
On Monday, Campaign Desk pointed to stories by the Associated Press's Ron Fournier and The New York Times' Adam Nagourney,... More
Gerhart On (And Behind) The Scene
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2004 at 02:57 PM
Yesterday, Campaign Desk applauded a few reporters' passing efforts to shed light on the behind-the-scenes machinations that produce compliant, cheering... More
Covering Crowd Control
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2004 at 05:15 PM
One staple in from-the-campaign-trail stories is a passing description of the welcoming, applause-ready crowds gathered to hear candidates' stump speeches.... More
Reply Hazy, Try Again … Again … Again …
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2004 at 11:16 AM
This week has magazine scribes raising sweeping questions and relying on a range of sources to supply a range of... More
Reporters, Like Bees and Dogs, Can Smell Fear
By Liz Cox Barrett May 3, 2004 at 03:45 PM
Democrats are afraid. We know ... because the Associated Press's Ron Fournier told us so on Friday, in a "newsview"... More
The Story Behind the Stereotype Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 29, 2004 at 04:16 PM
By Liz Cox Barrett On Monday The Washington Post introduced readers to one Britton Stein of Sugar Land, Texas, in... More
You Wear What You Are
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2004 at 02:37 PM
In reporting on Sen. John Kerry's appearance in Wheeling, West Virginia yesterday, The Charleston Daily Mail's Josh Hafenbrack briefly touched... More
Whose Economy?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 26, 2004 at 04:32 PM
In today's USA Today Susan Page takes a look at how the economy might factor into this year's presidential election.... More
Reporters Stampeded by Alligator
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2004 at 05:12 PM
On Tuesday, Sen. John Kerry spoke on several environmental issues in Tampa, Florida, and took questions -- one of which... More
In Hot Pursuit of … Folly
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2004 at 02:35 PM
Yesterday we reported on a four alarm veepstakes flare-up. Today, The Boston Globe's Patrick Healy does his best to keep... More
Reporters Track … Mystery Reporter
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2004 at 03:24 PM
Sen. John Edwards' appearance with Sen. John Kerry at a Florida "pool party" last evening stoked the veepstakes flames anew.... More
Why, Yes, I Think I Will
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2004 at 02:39 PM
Campaign Desk recognizes that listening to the same campaign speech 103 times a month might get a bit stale for... 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.
