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We Expected More Elephants
NYT delivers
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 9, 2008 at 01:37 PM
And today's Elephant in the Room award goes to The New York Times' Patrick Healy and Michael Cooper for the... More
Misty II
Cable considers Clinton
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 8, 2008 at 11:27 AM
You may have missed Hillary Clinton's flash of emotion yesterday, so brief was it. But you certainly can't miss the... More
Russert Becomes Invisible to Himself
The elephant is still in the room
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Since when does Tim Russert (or anyone like him) decline an opportunity to talk about himself? It happened this morning... More
The Best Political Team On TV…
…Is in the “spin room” before debate even starts
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 12, 2007 at 03:24 PM
Here's CNN's Candy Crowley, moments before this afternoon's Republican presidential debate, struggling to explain why, after debates, she and her... More
America, Will You Accept This Rose?
AP fantasizes about the “Bachelor President”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 12, 2007 at 12:35 PM
In an Associated Press article headlined, “Bloomberg: A Bachelor President?” reporter Sara Kugler writes: “For all of his billions, Mayor... More
Conduct Unbecoming…
A female presidential candidate (named Clinton)
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 4, 2007 at 02:38 PM
Remember what happened to the presidential aspirant the press decided was The Angry Candidate four years ago? Surely, seasoned campaign... More
The War that Keeps On Giving
On Fox News, at least
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 28, 2007 at 05:00 PM
With the Thanksgiving Travel Delay Story come and gone - along with its sister story, the one that comes with... More
It’s Sunday, Do I Have to Meet the Press?
1995 called and it wants its Beltway bloviators back
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 27, 2007 at 09:42 AM
"The race for the White House through the eyes of Carville, Matalin, Murphy and Shrum..." would have been more than... More
No Mo
Maureen Dowd is not necessary
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 21, 2007 at 08:54 AM
Many reporters have already pondered the question: Is America ready for a female president? But let's not put the cart... More
The Audacity
White House hopes, WaPo reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 19, 2007 at 04:20 PM
Fewer than 365 days until the next presidential election. For candidates, it's go-time/ crunch-time/ choose-your-own-platitude-time. For a lame-duck president, lest... More
And They Call Fred Thompson Lazy?
Reporters don’t even raise their own eyebrows these days
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 13, 2007 at 03:38 PM
Today, The New York Times’ Patrick Healy brings us a story about Something Bill Clinton Said and how it, like... More
CNN Plays Vegas
The Don King-ification of a Democratic Presidential Debate
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 13, 2007 at 11:33 AM
A plea to campaign reporters: please resist the temptation to use Sin City-centric clichés in your coverage of Thursday's Democratic... More
Has The Mighty Fallen Yet?
Chris Matthews’ “Slick” Hillary Watch
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 7, 2007 at 03:53 PM
Three Sundays ago, Chris Matthews, of NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, asked one of his journalist/panelists the following: When does... More
Being Michael Bloomberg
Newsweek knows the mayor better than he knows himself
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 6, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Newsweek's Jon Meacham stretched New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg out on the couch for a lengthy profile for this... More
Clinton: Gleeful or Glum?
LAT Turns NYT’s Frowns Upside Down
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 31, 2007 at 01:03 PM
Call it one of those were these reporters watching the same debate? moments. According to The New York Times' account... 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.
