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“Don’t Jump Off-the-Record”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2009 at 09:40 AM
Washington Post ombud Andrew Alexander reports that BNA (Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.), "which produces an array of print and... More
Let’s Give ‘Em Something to (Continue to) “Talk About”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 04:54 PM
On Mediaite's front page right now: Will The Right Make This Obama’s “Wise Latina” Moment? One line of the President’s... More
Wired’s Media Pyramid (“News” Still Broccoli)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 01:20 PM
This must explain something about us (obesity? stupidity?) Wired illustrates a balanced "media diet:" "entertainment" is the "whole grains" or... More
Awkward Spitzer Moment on MSNBC
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM
MSNBC's Carlos Watson was joined this morning by guest-co-host (and former New York Governor) Eliot Spitzer. Guest co-hosting a news... More
Meet The Press (And Hair)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM
One day, Politico has you "enjoying a gravitas boost" from your "prematurely salt-and-pepper mane," and then they turn around and... More
CBS News Retires To Keep Using Cronkite’s Voice-Over
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Viewers of the CBS Evening News heard Walter Cronkite's voice-over for final time Friday night. The network opted to retire... More
Sanford’s Sorry State Column
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina apologizes and seeks forgiveness via guest column in Sunday's The State. In part: It’s... More
Do Reader Comments on Web Articles “Devalue” Journalism?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 16, 2009 at 07:15 AM
Douglas Bailey, president and founder of DBMediaStrategies Inc., thinks so. (What is DBMedia Strategies? The company's web site says that... More
GlobalPost Reporter On His Weeks in Iran’s Evin Prison
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 03:10 PM
GlobalPost correspondent Iason Athanasiadis, while reporting on the demonstrations in Tehran, was arrested and held in Evin jail for three... More
CNN’s Rick Sanchez “Take[s] the Conversation Outside the Beltway…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 03:04 PM
... to the South Florida kitchen of his mom's house to, "with some trepidation," ask his mom, Adela Fernanndez, "the... More
“For She’s a Jolly Good Journalist”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM
The Washington Post's Jacqueline L. Salmon today profiles Randall Terry, onetime head of Operation Rescue, who "is trying to build... More
Obama to Costas: “Is This Hannity?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Before President Obama threw out the first pitch at the MLB All-Star Game last night, MLB Network's Bob Costas got... More
More From The State: Tapper, Jenkins Woo Sanford
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 09:46 AM
How's the sausage made? More details today from The State: "Media jostled for access to Sanford:" The media e-mails also... More
The State: Media Outlets Offered to Spin Sanford Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2009 at 01:56 PM
The (South Carolina) State, via open records laws, late yesterday received "nearly 600 pages of documents — e-mails and phone... More
Fox News: Scratch That; Reverse It.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2009 at 11:43 AM
On Fox News a few minutes ago, anchor Bret Baier described the "interruptions" during yesterday's Sotomayor hearings as "about abortion,... 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.
