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Obama Victory=Hard Work For Reporters
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 29, 2008 at 03:37 PM
Yesterday, Jack Shafer explained why covering an Obama victory might be very hard for our political reporters: If Obama wins,... More
Matthews’ Movie Madness
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 29, 2008 at 01:05 PM
Back in August, MSNBC's Chris Matthews decided that Steve Schmidt of the McCain campaign: Reminds me of Sergeant Markoff in... More
Car Chase! (White Car Involved)
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Fox News has been for several minutes following a car chase live in Miami. Ditto, MSNBC ("That is not even... More
Must-See TV (Also Online)
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM
FRONTLINE's "The War Briefing" (maybe you saw it on PBS last night?) was all the talk of our morning news... More
“Without Media Interference”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 29, 2008 at 10:28 AM
There is something very appealing right now about the idea of a "time out" from campaign coverage. And the idea... More
CPD “Hideously Bungled” Debates
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 29, 2008 at 10:07 AM
The 2008 debates were "hideously bungled by the Commission on Presidential Debates, a wholly owned subsidiary of the successful campaigns,"... More
Project Greenlight
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 29, 2008 at 09:24 AM
Today, in lieu of her standard column (and column font) in the New York Times, we get a "screenplay by... More
Politico on the Biases “That Matter”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 28, 2008 at 02:32 PM
Politico's Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris take readers through political journalists' biases (the ones that "matter so much more"... More
Campaign Press, Engaged
LAT trail reporters dish on the candidates
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 28, 2008 at 12:38 PM
The LA Times has twin front-page stories today chronicling a reporter's life on the road with the each of presidential... More
Extreme Made-Over (Michelle Obama Edition)
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Back in June, the New York Times ">hinted that Michelle Obama (or at least, her "image") might be, um, in... More
MoDo, Bono….
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 28, 2008 at 09:55 AM
Fresh off his recent blogging gig at the Financial Times, U2 lead singer Bono will join the New York Times... More
Covering That Other War
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 28, 2008 at 09:26 AM
We are a nation at war(s). And while you may know something of the presidential candidates' plans for Iraq and,... More
Her Clothes May Be Beau Brummelly
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 27, 2008 at 03:09 PM
Another http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/closet_confessionals.php?page=all&print=true">peek inside reporters' closets, courtesy of WardrobeGate. MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell talking to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan just now about... More
Male Journalists (With “Soft, Girlie Hands”)
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 27, 2008 at 01:48 PM
Time's James Poniewozick explains how the "political press...dotes on a nostalgic definition of realness that bears ever less relation to... More
On The One Hand, Hannity….
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM
...on the other, Olbermann. If you want to show that Fox News's Sean Hannity and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann represent opposite... 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.
