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Cable’s “Soulless Palavering”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 18, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Never use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent one will do...except, maybe, when laboring to describe what it is that... More
You Say Tomato, They Say Campaign Ad
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 18, 2008 at 10:11 AM
From an AP article exploring those negative cable news-bait campaign ads (the ones that don't require an actual ad buy... More
Who’s Down With OPM?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 18, 2008 at 09:29 AM
Watching Sean Hannity's "no-topic-off-limits interview" with Sarah Palin right now. Nothing too tough or noteworthy so far. Lots of economy... More
Sweat-Stained TPS Reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 18, 2008 at 09:10 AM
That lunch at your desk in now an workplace norm is one thing. But, "treadmill desks"? Can the toilet-in-a-desk-chair (ergonimically... More
MSNBabsC
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 04:35 PM
Number of segments in which "Streisand" has been mentioned over the past 24 hours (per a TVEyes search): CNN: 13... More
Firsts
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 03:42 PM
CBS News reports that this morning "marked the first time [Palin] answered a question from the press on the fly,... More
Losing Face (Today’s Fourth Hour)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 03:01 PM
This is how they're filling that fourth hour of the Today Show? "Kathie Lee and Hoda Take Off Their Makeup:" More
Man on the Street in Sanaa
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Gripping man-on-the-street reporting from Christian Science Monitor contributor Shane Bauer in Sanaa, Yemen. (Plus, some helpful context and background to... More
NYT: Again With Palin’s Hair
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Having already tracked down the woman who styled The Real Sarah Palin's hair, the next step for the The New... More
So, Palin’s The Tickle-Me Elmo of Election ‘08?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 12:16 PM
CNN taps someone from Harvard Business School to wax wise on "the vulnerability of American citizens to anything that is... More
McCain’s Got a Squeeze Box
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 11:38 AM
The AP's Glen Johnson sees McCain going in and out and in and out (because, maybe, where's the melody in... More
31 Women
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 10:28 AM
The Washington Post has a haunting, detailed story today reporting, in part, that "there have been 31 female [suicide] bombers... More
Palin “Hired Friends” Story: No Coattails?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 09:45 AM
The New York Observer explores the question: "Does print journalism matter this election?" and talks to the New York Times's... More
Dowd’s Notebook Dump
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 17, 2008 at 09:12 AM
Every now and then, Maureen Dowd's column reads unusually chaotic (unedited?).... disjointed, a string of zingers without a home (until... More
Another Hopeful Headline
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 04:03 PM
"One hesitates to be too hopeful," Megan wrote earlier today, pointing to HuffPo's "HELLO ECONOMY, GOODBYE LIPSTICK" headline and other... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
