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Frugal and Fabulous!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 13, 2009 at 03:11 PM
From Saturday's New York Times Business Section (another one for Katia's NYT- Revels-in-Bad-Times File): Millions of Americans have trimmed expenses... More
NYT Finds Evidence of Twitter’s “Utility”…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 13, 2009 at 02:42 PM
...including this, which alone should totally convince Twitter skeptics: Corey Menscher, a graduate student at New York University, developed the... More
Crediting Obama For Captain’s Rescue?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Michael Crowley, writing at TNR yesterday, on press coverage of The Pirate Story : Predictably if somewhat absurdly, news commentary... More
A (Sort of) Disclosure
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 13, 2009 at 10:38 AM
In defense of a recent New York Times op-ed about Bernie Madoff written by Daphne Merkin, the editor of the... More
CNN’s On-Air Editorial Meeting?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 13, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Heard on CNN last night: DON LEMON (CNN anchor): Listen, let's talk about this, guys. [The Obamas are] getting a... More
Fox News’s “Military Analyst” on How To Fight Pirates
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Gawker's Mike Byhoff and Ryan Tate spotted on Fox News yesterday one of the retired military officers cited in David... More
Noah: “Who The Hell Wrote This Crap? His Mother?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 9, 2009 at 09:55 AM
At Slate, Timothy Noah holds forth on the beat sweetener, a "gratuitously flattering profile that a reporter writes about a... More
Got A Nose for News?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2009 at 04:05 PM
No? Better go get one. "Plastic surgery is latest accessory for job seekers,"reports Reuters. When the going gets tough, some... More
TPM’s Slideshow of Newspaper Deaths
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2009 at 02:42 PM
Supply your own soundtrack. UPDATE: TNR's (less comprehensive) version. More
Another Endorsement
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Moving on from Oprah: Would you pay for Alec Baldwin-endorsed news? More
Would You Pay For Oprah-Endorsed News?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2009 at 01:13 PM
Others are stepping in to save newspapers. Colleges are creating newspaper cooperatives with their local paper to bolster dwindling resources.... More
It’s Ok to Mock Madonna (Randy Cohen Says So)
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Nytimes.com launches a new blog, Moral of the Story, where Randy Cohen (of the "The Ethicist" column in the Times... More
Parker On The President’s “Group Hug” “Diplomacy”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2009 at 12:33 PM
From Kathleen Parker's Washington Post column in praise of President Obama's "Unmacho Diplomacy" (in reference to those who question "whether... More
They Don’t Cry?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2009 at 10:46 AM
The latest in Glenn Beck-inspired coverage, from a New York Observer piece about how tears are all the rage in... More
News As Bottled Water
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2009 at 09:32 AM
From a who will pay for news piece in the business section of today's New York Times: How do you... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
