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Even Better Than The Real Thing?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 30, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Speaking of "phoning it in..." Remember how Bono was scheduled to sit down with Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin last... More
Oh, I Gotcha
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 30, 2008 at 09:30 AM
What can we learn from the below exchange between CBS News's Katie Couric, Sen. McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin which... More
Kicking Ourselves, Others
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 30, 2008 at 08:37 AM
The pundits of MSNBC's Morning Joe (and invited guests) did some self-flagellating (finger-pointing?) while exploring What Happened to Our Economy?... More
What’s the Point?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2008 at 04:41 PM
On MSNBC they keep calling today's market plunge "the biggest intraday point drop ever." Which is, as The Audit's Dean... More
Which Comes First: The Spin or The Spun?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2008 at 01:14 PM
Howard Kurtz visits the spin room/media tent after Friday's presidential debate and gets this mind-boggling quote: "The spin is something... More
Fallows on Zakaria on Wen
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2008 at 12:47 PM
James Fallows recommends Fareed Zakaria's interview on CNN with China's premier, Wen Jiabao. "Interview appearances by Wen or president Hu... More
What Do You Expect?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2008 at 12:40 PM
While Sen. Joe Biden was omnipresent in the minutes and hours after Friday's debate, helping TV viewers understand what they... More
“Scoring” the Debate
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Megan is working on a piece for Campaign Desk for later today about post-debate coverage/analysis. How much of it do... More
Headlines: Reading The Bailout
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2008 at 09:47 AM
If you get your bailout news via other people's papers on the New York City subway, this morning you saw... More
CNN=Eyesore?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 29, 2008 at 09:16 AM
And you thought CNN's convention graphics were distracting? Did you (could you?) see Friday night's debate? The tri-lined reaction meter... More
All The News That’s Fit To Headbutt
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 26, 2008 at 02:41 PM
[The New York Times] has been around a long time. They know their stuff. So says Hulk Hogan, the now... More
Headlines in Anchorage
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 25, 2008 at 11:35 AM
From today's front page (online version) of the Anchorage Daily News: 1) "Legislators lock horns over Palin inquiry" (Highlight: Hmmm.... More
MSNBC’s “Aging, White Male Divas”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 25, 2008 at 10:50 AM
...is how New York Times TV ctitic Alessandra Stanley, in her mostly-positive review today of The Rachel Maddow Show, describes... More
Letterman, Olbermann, Bitter-men?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 25, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Everyone's talking about what David Letterman said about John McCain last night. Nutshell: McCain canceled his scheduled Letterman appearance at... More
Couric Followed Up (Will Palin)?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Katie Couric asked a follow-up question. When Gov. Sarah Palin, Couric's interviewee on CBS Evening News tonight, failed to answer... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
