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Covering Rick Perry: “Exciting!”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2011 at 03:30 PM
Three out of five MSNBC talking heads agree (the other two at the table didn't weigh in): they’d rather cover... More
You Made Your Tweet…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2011 at 10:07 AM
...now wear it. From a wearable technology workshop somewhere inside Microsoft's headquarters comes: The Printing Dress (h/t, joonbug). This black... More
Richmond Times-Dispatch Ad Pull(ed)out
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 15, 2011 at 09:12 AM
Granted, I'm not fluent in advertising jargon, but it looks to me like this “special advertising pullout” in the Richmond... More
Pres. Obama at Dover
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 9, 2011 at 02:49 PM
President Obama canceled a scheduled event in Virginia today and, "assuming the grimmest role of his job," as the Associated... More
By the Numbers: New Yorker’s Bachmann Profile
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 8, 2011 at 03:45 PM
The following is a list of words you will encounter (and number of times) in Ryan Lizza’s fascinating, detail-packed New... More
Pack of Gum, PAC of Candidate
WaPo on frequent political impulse spenders
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 2, 2011 at 03:25 PM
What “phenomenon” will the Washington Post’s T.W. Farnam find next within the rows and columns of politicians’ campaign finance reports?... More
Almost Famous (2000)
Who’s afraid of Rolling Stone?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2011 at 06:00 AM
Beware, beware, Rolling Stone magazine... Music, inarguably, is the hero, the emotional engine in Almost Famous, the Cameron Crowe-written, -directed... More
Ready, Set… Comment!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 25, 2011 at 10:31 AM
Wonder how the conversation went in the New York Times newsroom that led to this story being placed on the... More
Murdoch, “Humble,” in Global Headlines
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2011 at 01:17 PM
Below, a look at how the most recent turns in the phone hacking scandal—yesterday's testimony to Parliament from Rupert and... More
In Other Angles: Blame Brooks’s “Big Hair”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 19, 2011 at 10:29 AM
With The Guardian owning the “expensive, risky, time-consuming, stressful—and indispensable” investigative reporting related to the phone hacking scandal, as Dean... More
“Dumbest News Story Ever Written in Human History”
WaPo breaks First Lady Lunch news
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 12, 2011 at 06:33 PM
Per the Washington Post yesterday: [A] Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed... Consider, for a moment, all the possible... More
Kurtz: Let He Who is Without…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM
Howard Kurtz returns to the pages of the Washington Post with a guest column reminding readers that the News of... More
How to Cover the Money Race
A Q&A with money-and-politics expert Dave Levinthal
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 5, 2011 at 05:58 PM
If 2010’s $3.6 billion midterm elections are any gauge, reporters tasked with following the money in campaign 2012 face a... More
“The Usual Queries about Tactics, Controversies”
How to read Howard Kurtz’s column
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM
It’s far too early in the campaign season to let one little Howard Kurtz piece turn you off campaign coverage,... More
It’s the Least CNN Could Do…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM
... name Jessica Yellin chief White House correspondent, after this back in '08: And another Yellin '08 flashback: remember when... 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.
