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Can Sticks and Stones Break Bonesmen’s Bones?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2004 at 11:27 AM
...And speaking of bones, at The Corner, Tim Graham has one to pick with Katie Couric for calling the arrival... More
Get Ready to … Fumble … Stumble … Crumble?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 3, 2004 at 11:08 AM
Innnnn the left corner, wearing the blue trunks ... John "The Real Deal" Kerry. Onnnnn the right, in red ...... More
Super-Cali-Fatalistic…
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 2, 2004 at 12:02 PM
By many a blogger's barometer, Super Tuesday is Foregone Conclusion Day (okay, and there are some polls that support the... More
The Envelope, Please …
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 1, 2004 at 12:19 PM
There were two opportunities yesterday to watch nattily-dressed men on television, made up to the point of looking jaundiced, talking... More
Institutionalized: Corps Versus Scott
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2004 at 06:52 PM
Most White House press briefings go something like this: Reporter: Ask question. Press secretary: Recite talking point. Reporter: Rephrase question.... More
Reporters Relish Heinz Kerry’s Spicy Quotes
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2004 at 12:03 PM
With California's Democratic primary now six days away, the Los Angeles Times' Robin Abcarian today contributes her two cents to... More
The “Shocking” Story That Wasn’t
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2004 at 05:24 PM
The following headline ran this afternoon on an Associated Press story by Deborah Riechmann: "Laura Bush Says Gay Marriage 'Shocking.'"... More
Drudge, Dickens, and the Death Rattle (?) of a Rumor
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 17, 2004 at 02:00 PM
Yesterday, a crestfallen Matt Drudge downgraded the affair alert on his web site from last week's red ("Campaign Drama Rocks... More
Cox on Cox: A Window into the Mind of the Beleaguered Drudgette of the Moment
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 13, 2004 at 02:39 PM
You think it's easy being Wonkette? Perish the thought. In a wide-ranging interview with Campaign Desk this morning, the blogette... More
What Does It Take to Make Page One Around Here?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 10, 2004 at 05:46 PM
Last night, more than two years after the fact, the White House backed off from a statement made by President... More
And Now, Our Story About the Story About the Story About the Scream
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 10, 2004 at 10:55 AM
Building on Diane Sawyer's story last week on how the media had both overplayed Dean's now-infamous post-Iowa address and taken... More
Hey, Wasn�t There A Primary Campaign Going On?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 10, 2004 at 10:54 AM
With the conventional wisdom telling us that John Kerry's got the nomination all but wrapped up, most bloggers are feeling... More
Clark’s Campaign Makeover
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 5, 2004 at 01:55 PM
ABC News's Deborah Apton, on the road with Gen. Wesley Clark, reports today on some of the Clark campaign's recent... More
Premature Coronation
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 4, 2004 at 04:29 PM
Remember that tall guy with the four stars on his shoulder? Madonna's pick for the presidency? What was his name... More
An Information Deficit
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 3, 2004 at 08:52 PM
In a nearly numbers-free New York Times "News Analysis" of the federal budget Elisabeth Bumiller describes the projected federal budget... More
WaPo: Got agency?
The Post’s ombudsman calls for more coverage of the “less sexy” Cabinet departments
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Last Friday, the day after The Washington Post announced an expansion of its online video content "with politically focused programming,”... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
