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A Police Chase Not Covered Live On Cable…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM
... but Twittered-- with siren! -- by Drudge. Dateline, Little Valley, NY: The driver of a horse and buggy led... More
From One “Ultimate Thinking Person” to Another
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Newsweek's Jon Meacham (a.k.a, "The Utimate Thinking Person") has, for the first time in the magazine's history, brought on a... More
Talking Tiananmen “Tank Man”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 10:11 AM
At Lens, the New York Times's photo blog, four photojournalists recall covering Tiananmen Square in June 1989 (h/t, NiemanLab). Fearing... More
What Your Own Cable Channel’s For
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Any guesses as to which NBC show has been referenced more often over the past 24 hours on MSNBC (if... More
Squirrelly Fox
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 01:49 PM
If you had to guess on which cable news channel this morning I learned of the story about, in the... More
More Thoughts On Saving Newspapers…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 01:36 PM
...from the former and current editors of Vanity Fair. (And, coincidentally, both accounts involve London's The Daily Telegraph!) Tina Brown,... More
Today In CBS News: Ustream, PU
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Per the New York Times: Seeking a younger audience more accustomed to watching the news on the Internet than on... More
You Say So-TO-mae-ohr…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 10:09 AM
I post the below Daily Show clip from last night for the footage of various TV news anchors and pundits... More
“The World’s Most Important Network”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Below, a compilation of news stories from 1987, when CNN moved its Atlanta headquarters from a red brick, white-columned "former... More
Your Shoe Leather Is Safe In Riyadh
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 04:45 PM
Time's White House correspondent (and onetime CJR employee), Michael Scherer, shares the official U.S. State Department "instructions" for reporters... More
Well, Maureen Dowd’s “On Vacation…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 03:35 PM
...so in her absence it fell to someone else at the New York Times to call President Obama out for... More
“Case Study of How the Echo Chamber of Washington Works…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 02:21 PM
...NPR's description of Jeffrey Rosen's infamous "The Case Against Sotomayor" TNR article "blog entry" (h/t, Glenn Greenwald). Rosen won't be... More
What Obama White House “Feels Like”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 01:43 PM
A reader's question from today's chat with Ana Marie Cox and Tucker Carlson at washingtonpost.com: Q: Ana, you see this... More
A “Long Shot Effort” by Star Ledger “Refugees”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 08:44 AM
In today's New York Times, David Carr writes up NewJerseyNewsroom, ex-Star Ledger reporters' "effort at creating an alternative source of... More
Is CNN “Fading?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 08:36 AM
CNN's prime time ratings are down, observes Politico's Michael Calderone. Some "staffers" are concerned. [Wh]ile being “nonpartisan” is something most... 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)
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
