Author Archive
Articles by Liz Cox Barrett | Email the Author
We’ve Got -Gate!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 19, 2008 at 09:53 AM
Yes, this campaign season has already suffered a SnubGate. Yes, we've already had a -Gate involving Muslim (or at least... More
No Al Roker Live from Tiananmen Square?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 19, 2008 at 09:14 AM
For anyone looking forward to seeing Al Roker do a stand-up from Tiananmen Square this summer when the Today show... More
Big Bird-Inspired Investigative Incubator
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 19, 2008 at 08:16 AM
Charles Lewis, who founded the Center for Public Integrity, is launching the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University’s School of... More
Ambush Makeover
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2008 at 02:13 PM
As of 2:20pm, the word "makeover" (in relation to Michelle Obama) has been mentioned on MSNBC today at the following... More
Last Week’s “Debates Over Several Key Issues” (What, You Missed Them?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Per PEJ: In the first official week of the general election, the differences between Barack Obama and John McCain on... More
Michelle on The View!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Michelle Obama has taken her image makeover tour to ABC's The View this morning. But so far, we've learned more... More
How Not To Torture (Covering the Experts)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15 AM
It must have been, um, agony maintaining the required poker face of detachment while writing the "straight news" account for... More
Wanted: More On Iraq From Candidates
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2008 at 08:51 AM
Is this, in some part, media criticism on the New York Times op-ed page? In today's column Thomas Friedman writes:... More
Dancin’ With The Candidate
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank writes up John McCain's evolving stance on offshore oil drilling and his overall efforts to... More
B-Team Barack Now Bringing A-Game!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2008 at 09:14 AM
Per the Associated Press: Confined to the bench back in his high school basketball days, Barack Obama felt the fierce... More
Michelle Obama’s Southern Strategy
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2008 at 08:32 AM
The following strikes me as bad advice, all around. Not the least because can you imagine the column Maureen Dowd... More
Backstage at Fox News
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2008 at 03:45 PM
Fox News' s "Live Desk" this afternoon is taking viewers on a "behind-the-scenes tour" of the Fox News operation ("How... More
When Narratives Collide?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2008 at 02:25 PM
Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton's onetime campaign manager (who was pushed out a few months ago amid a fund-raising crunch;... More
From Journalist to Spokeswoman: Finally Free To “Tell The Truth?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Linda Douglass, who for years worked in television journalism, spoke to Howard Kurtz about becoming Barack Obama's spokeswoman: [Obama] wants... More
One TV Critic’s Campaign Coverage Wish
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2008 at 11:03 AM
I hope journalists learn to save the thumb-sucking explainer pieces for when they're really needed. So wishes Eric Deggans, the... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
