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Virginia Heffernan Hates Her iPhone…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 6, 2009 at 04:37 PM
...iPhone lovers hate Heffernan's piece (scan the comments section). More
Pat Kiernan Goes National
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 6, 2009 at 03:32 PM
Pat Kiernan, the man who reads aloud on TV from New York-area newspapers ("In the Papers" on NY1) is now... More
“I Am Now On The Other Side of This War”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Two Iraqi translators for the New York Times, Mudhafer al-Husaini and Sahar S. Gabriel, have received refugee visas to come... More
To Cable, With Love
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 6, 2009 at 12:09 PM
"[Sarah Palin] is the gift that keeps on giving to cable television and certainly the supermarket tabloids," said John Decker,... More
Michelle, In The Eye of the Beholder
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 6, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Michelle Obama: "The New Oprah?" The New... President? (The New Director of Your Local Daycare Center?) More
“There Will Still Be News”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 6, 2009 at 10:17 AM
In a Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501733.html">column, Michael Kinsley shrugs off The Death of Newspapers As We (Used To) Know Them: We're... More
18-Year Media Ban Ends
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 6, 2009 at 09:35 AM
New organizations were on hand late last night at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, for the first time since... More
Still Don’t “Get” Twitter?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM
"TRULY GROUNDBREAKING MARKETING RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING TWITTER." (h/t Andrew Sullivan) More
Snub Is In The Air
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 2, 2009 at 09:31 AM
Are American reporters adopting that perceiving-slights-around-every-corner thing that some British reporters seem to have? (When in London...) The New York... More
I Covered The G20 And All I Got Was This Lousy…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 1, 2009 at 03:23 PM
A report on President Obama's overseas trip devolved into swag talk on CBS News's The Early Show this morning: BILL... More
Look Kids! Big Ben! Parliament!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 1, 2009 at 12:09 PM
If President Obama is in London, no need to ask, Where in the world is Brian, Charlie and Katie? All... More
Hey, Fox Nation!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 1, 2009 at 11:38 AM
I assume, this being launch week, that the content aggregators at The Fox Nation are pretty busy. So, in case... More
The Ballad(s) Of Glenn Beck
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Behold: "The Poetry of Glenn Beck," Volumes 1 and 2. More
“Top 10 April Fool’s Day Fake News Items”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 1, 2009 at 10:02 AM
PC World has compiled what it regards as today's ten best fake news items. Wireless wolfpigeon "news" aside, here's my... More
In Reporters’ Briefing Book, Brits See “Snubs”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 1, 2009 at 09:42 AM
Are American reporters accompanying President Obama overseas geographically challenged? Is the self-worth of some British reporters too easily challenged? Are... 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.
