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Still “Shocking” After All These Weeks
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 29, 2004 at 03:12 PM
To students of Greek mythology, Echo is a beautiful wood nymph; to Campaign Desk, echo journalism is a vampire, and... More
Becky Diamond on “Pulling Teeth” and Orange Bowling on the Kerry Campaign
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 26, 2004 at 05:56 PM
Becky Diamond Since September, 35-year-old Becky Diamond has been on the campaign trail (plane, bus, rental car) covering Sen.... More
Reggie On the Rocks
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 26, 2004 at 03:15 PM
While bigshot East Coast reporters explored the Republican National Committee's impressively outfitted Reggie the (voter) Registration Rig yesterday amid the... More
Total Republicans Live
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 25, 2004 at 11:48 PM
Campaign Desk/Liz Cox Barrett After a night's rest in Secaucus, New Jersey, Reggie the Registration Rig -- the Republican... More
Serving Up the Green Stuff
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 25, 2004 at 12:42 PM
With plenty of deliciously partisan back-and -forth to tempt a political reporter's tummy lately, The Christian Science Monitor's Brad Knickerbocker... More
While Diane’s Away, the Mice Replay
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2004 at 12:57 PM
We've all had that delicious moment of temptation at one time or another: "The boss is away; I can do... More
“You Can Check Out Any Time You Want, But You Can Never Leave”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2004 at 03:36 PM
Today, the Los Angeles Times' Eric Slater writes somewhat sheepishly in his "Dispatch from Ketchum" that "this area in south-central... More
Policy? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Policy!
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 19, 2004 at 05:19 PM
We know that many in the press prefer to focus first on the fray -- most recently, who's no longer... More
Hello, Cleveland?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2004 at 06:58 PM
Sometimes it takes a little while for a story to bounce around the media echo chamber and reverberate into the... More
Anatomy of a Foul-Up
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2004 at 09:19 AM
By Liz Cox Barrett and Thomas Lang In yesterday's New York Times, Jodi Wilgoren informed readers that "the weeklong controversy"... More
Sounds Like a Crock to Us
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 15, 2004 at 09:05 PM
Last week, Jay Rosen opined that the lull between primary season and the conventions will become a "point in the... More
Helen Thomas on Grilling the Pinch Hitter
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2004 at 05:14 PM
Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House since 1961 -- first as a reporter for United Press International and,... More
Veepstakes Gone Wild
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2004 at 02:03 PM
For our part, we're happy to wait until John Kerry himself tells us just who it is that he plans... More
Who Says So?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 8, 2004 at 11:40 AM
This morning David Gregory, NBC's White House correspondent, brought "Today Show" viewers a segment on President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch... More
Bush’s Ads Beget Tidal Wave of Bloviation
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 5, 2004 at 01:12 PM
With the benefit of a few additional hours to ponder the president's first wave of campaign ads on TV, bloggers... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
