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Kenneth’s Response to the “Internet Hoo-Hah”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Jack McBrayer, the actor who plays 30 Rock's Kenneth The Page, the character to whom many bloggers compared Gov. Bobby... More
WaPo On The End of Big Pimpin’
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 03:56 PM
The Boston Globe recently brought us the story of people "Laid Off And Loving It." Today, the Washington Post introduces... More
Calderone Gets To The Bottom of “Oh God”-Gate
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 01:14 PM
Politico's Michael Calderone solves the mystery of "Oh God"-Gate -- that is, which MSNBC anchor's voice could be heard last... More
First Lady’s Arms Inspire Envy, Suspicion (And Fear?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Michelle Obama Goes Sleeveless, Again" is the annoyed-sounding headline on Jodi Kantor's post on The Caucus Blog at NYTimes.com, observing... More
“We Will Recover…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 09:55 AM
... is the phrase from President Obama's speech last night that seems to have grabbed headline writers at newspapers across... More
Cooper: “I Guess The Republicans, Then, Are 50 Cent?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Cut the deficit in half...."Restart the engine of our prosperity"... Health care reform... The question on many cable commentators lips... More
Stephanopoulos’s Twitter Misunderstanding
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 24, 2009 at 03:00 PM
"The bass not served w cannabis! 'Pot' short for potato!" read an urgent tweet minutes ago from ABC News's George... More
Take Our Pundits To Work Day
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs brought MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski (and Morning Joe viewers) on a "behind... More
Friedman’s Got Fallon’s Back (Strange Column Alert)
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Marketwatch's Jon Friedman regrets his harsh assessments back when of Katie Couric's first night anchoring The CBS Evening News and... More
NYT’s Incomplete Snark Review
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Yesterday, the New York Times reviewed David Denvy's book, Snark... minus the chapter (yes, chapter) taking down Times columnist Maureen... More
Column Advice For Paul Krugman
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM
In Ryan Lizza's New Yorker profile of Rahm Emanuel, the White House Chief of Staff and "political John McEnroe" offers... More
Does This Count As Early Childhood Education Reporting?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM
I was about to type up a post observing that according to US News & World Report's "Washington Whispers," Chris... More
Fleischer to WH Press: Don’t “Act Like Fools On National TV”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer predicts White House reporters will "make themselves look bad if left to their... More
Reporter-Rodent
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Michael Miner was worried he'd have nothing to tell the young, aspiring journalists at an upcoming panel discussion. After talking... More
“Bait[ing]” Sasha Obama
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 19, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Having filed her official Washington Post column about her recent ride with fellow columnists (Bob Herbert, Ron Brownstein, E.J. Dionne,... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
