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Got Friedman Fatigue?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2008 at 02:26 PM
If you, too, are experiencing Dowd dread, expand your op-ed horizons by checking out the Council on Foreign Relations new... More
Let Them Eat (Cheesecake Factory) Cake
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2008 at 09:34 AM
If all I thought I did in my career was to help rich people decide where to eat, I'd be... More
Media “Easier” on One Candidate?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2008 at 09:09 AM
From the latest New York Times/CBS News poll (not to distract you from all of its WrightGate-related findings and the... More
I’d Rather Be…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2008 at 08:19 AM
It's been an incredibly long campaign...even for those of us in journalism...it's like one of those long bus rides home... More
Sobering “Sketch” From Milbank
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 24, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Don't miss Dana Milbank's "Washington Sketch" today which begins: Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to... More
Reuters On The Rocks
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 24, 2008 at 10:39 AM
If not by scoring some Hollywood armcandy for the White House Correspondents dinner on Saturday, how else might a news... More
Follow-Up to NYT’s “Miitary Analysts” Piece?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 24, 2008 at 09:04 AM
Josh Marshall wonders if any networks (cable or broadcast) have followed up on David Barsow's "blockbuster article detailing how the... More
Euthanize CBS News?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 24, 2008 at 08:09 AM
Another day, another "let's put evening network newscasts out of their misery" piece that begins with a crack about their... More
Impatient? Who, Us?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 03:06 PM
Among the Wake Us When It's Over, Are We Theeere Yet? headlines* today: "Clinton v. Obama: When Will The Race... More
NYT’s Arresting Lede
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 02:21 PM
Yes, my eyes first went to all that colorful confetti falling (whee!) in the large photo of the Hillary and... More
Mutiny on the Staight Talk Express?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 01:21 PM
Kevin Drum foresees a future Mutiny on The Straight Talk Express: [G]o ahead, call me an optimist — I suspect... More
Mitchell, Miscast
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Personally, I don't like my Morning Joe with Mitchell --Andrea Mitchell, who is subbing today for Joe Scarborough's usual Joe... More
Two Media Big-Wigs Put Their (Blue Collared) Heads Together?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Last night on MSNBC, Tim Russert said (with one of his Man, I'm plugged-in -- or maybe I LOVE this... More
Enter, the Exit Poll
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 09:03 AM
What's the proper analogy? Asking a Clinton voter, as he's exiting the polling place on primary day, whether he would... More
A Pundit’s Hunch. Better Than a Poll!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2008 at 08:24 AM
Polls (polling data in the hands of cable pundits in particular) have earned a particularly bad name this election season.... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
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.
