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The Democratic Primary: Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
By Liz Cox Barrett May 12, 2008 at 11:02 AM
From Katharine Q. Seeyle's New York Times piece today (emphasis mine): This is an awkward phase in a long campaign.... More
Beyond “Voicing Over Pictures”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 12, 2008 at 09:47 AM
CNN's Dan Rivers, one of few Western journalists able to report from Myanmar last week, tells Howard Kurtz on yesterday's... More
Pick a Pundit Profile
By Liz Cox Barrett May 12, 2008 at 08:40 AM
Which television poli-pundit profile to read first: "Chuckie T's" or Turd Blossom's? Howard Kurtz profiles NBC's political director Chuck Todd... More
Going Brangelina on Barack
By Liz Cox Barrett May 8, 2008 at 09:30 AM
In a New York Times article today about how the entertainment press is giving Britney-sized attention to this year's presidential... More
McCain Makes News
By Liz Cox Barrett May 8, 2008 at 08:39 AM
Appears on Daily Show--a surefire way to get the (uncritical) attention of the campaign press. McCain talked about how, as... More
News Deprived
By Liz Cox Barrett May 8, 2008 at 08:17 AM
At washingtonmonthly.com, Kevin Drum is asking his readers: If you could have only one source of news in the world,... More
About Being Distracted…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 7, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Luckily, my quest for ever more juicy campaign minutiae brought me to Time's Swampland blog just now where I found... More
McCain In Media Crosshairs? “In Time”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 7, 2008 at 09:54 AM
How The Media Works 101: Can't Walk and Chew Gum, with Professors Chris Matthews and Tim Russert (and input from... More
Morning After (Press Takes Pulse)
By Liz Cox Barrett May 7, 2008 at 08:41 AM
NBC's Today Show this morning: "Is it over?" ABC's Good Morning America: "End of the Road?" Front page of today's... More
Last Night’s Matthews-isms
By Liz Cox Barrett May 7, 2008 at 08:27 AM
In a single exchange with Keith Olbermann last night describing Clinton's and Obama's primary night speeches, MSNBC's Chris Matthews managed... More
Quick: What Rhymes with CJR?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 02:42 PM
The Guardian reports (via Gawker): The Economist's bid to appeal to more youthful readers seems to be paying off after... More
The CW on Bloggers and She-Candidates
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Back in March, Mark Leibovich drew up for the New York Times a "Scorecard On Conventional Wisdom" this election season.... More
Wright Out-NewsMakes Everyone and Everything!
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Can't get snatches of Rev. Wright's sermons and speeches out of your head? The Project for Excellence in Journalism explains... More
Why No HageeGate? Russert Explains
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 09:34 AM
On Imus in the Morning yesterday, Tim Russert supplied an answer to that question -- bubbling online and, yesterday, on... More
NYT’s Front-Page Insight
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2008 at 08:28 AM
The New York Times' veteran political reporter, Adam Nagourney, summons his expertise to tip readers to "three possible outcomes to... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
