Author Archive
Articles by Liz Cox Barrett | Email the Author
“If Michael Jackson Hadn’t Died…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2009 at 03:52 PM
In an online Q&A, Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth explains what might have been this summer for "The Craigslist... More
Advice for Diane Sawyer
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Advice for Diane Sawyer for her inaugural outing, reportedly to take place in January, as the new anchor of ABC's... More
Ling and Lee on Their Detention in N. Korea
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee write, for the first time, about their reporting, capture, and detention in... More
“Free-For-All Internet Media Culture” is a Euphemism For…
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2009 at 09:50 AM
..., apparently, the Washington press corps. The New York Times's Peter Baker today writes about the rumored "nuptials that never... More
Today’s Number 1 and Number 2 Headlines…
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2009 at 04:46 PM
... thematically, anyway. From the Wall Street Journal: "In Paris, Behavior Brigade Battles to Make Oui-Oui a Non-Non" And, from... More
Breaking: Bernie Madoff’s Beach House Has (Ew!) “Formica Countertops”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Reporters have been given a video walk-through of Bernie Madoff's Montauk, New York beach house. And? Not so impressed. This... More
DePaul U. Delivers On McSweeney’s “Internet-Age Writing Syllabus?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM
At McSweeney's back in April, Robert Lanham unveiled his "Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview" for (wink, wink) "ENG 371WR:... More
“The Strangulation of the Sri Lankan Press”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM
From a profile of Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, written for The (UK) Independent by a "special correspondent," "a Sri... More
Blame Reporters, Bloggers And Readers…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 04:21 PM
Yesterday, Washington Post ombud Andrew Alexander wrote about readers' requests for "more explanatory journalism" on health care reform (and less... More
Sri Lankan Journalist Found Guilty of “Creat[ing] Communal Disharmony”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Via AP: A Sri Lankan reporter singled out by President Barack Obama as an example of persecuted journalists around the... More
NYT Mag’s $400K Story: A Cost Breakdown
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Clara Jeffery at Mother Jones got the New York Times Magazine's editor, Gerald Marzorati, to break down, via email, the... More
“A First Television Job on Today Is” Like…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 11:04 AM
President Bush's daughter, Jenna (Bush) Hager, has been hired as a "special correspondent" for NBC's Today show (my money would... More
Chris Wallace, Cheney Groupie?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Andrew Sullivan's take on Chris Wallace's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday on Fox News Sunday: Now look:... More
Dowd’s (Kinda Hollow) Who Are You
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Today, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asks, of people who write nasty things anonymously online, "Who are these people... More
NYT’s “Arab Press Roundup”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM
The New York Times online has an interesting, if brief, roundup of "discussions inside the Arab world, as played out... 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.
