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Sandra Endo on Flirting Candidates, “Colorful” Bush Comments, and Convention-Week Massages
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 27, 2004 at 04:43 PM
Sandra Endo Sandra Endo covers local, state and national politics for NY1, where she has worked since 1998. Endo... More
Hidden Is The Word for This News, All Right
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 27, 2004 at 12:35 PM
This morning, yet more evidence of how Swift BoatGate has dominated mainstream media, and relegated serious election-year issues to the... More
Pretty Please, Just Once?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2004 at 03:58 PM
Yesterday, Campaign Desk offered a big-picture -- and rather damning, if we say so ourselves -- accounting of the press'... More
Bees, Rats and Dancing at Republicans
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2004 at 01:23 PM
The blogosphere continues to bubble with John on Jon reviews. Electablog's David Pell speaks for some unnamed group of people... More
By Turns Doubtful, Doleful, and Downright Defensive
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2004 at 02:07 PM
On Daily Kos, DemFromCT ponders how journalists will handle the new news about Abu Ghraib -- what with all the... More
“Who, Me? Naw, This Megaphone Is Just a Prop”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2004 at 10:41 AM
Campaign Desk had a good, gallows-humor-type chuckle when we saw this stunningly un-self-aware headline on Tom Raum's Associated Press piece... More
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 23, 2004 at 12:28 PM
For members of the mainstream press arriving at work in a Monday morning fog, a virtual "to-do" list awaits you... More
President Bush Nailed by Cheese Cops
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2004 at 03:48 PM
It all started yesterday, when CNN, Fox and The New York Times were content to transcribe and transmit President Bush's... More
CNN’s Cheesy Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2004 at 01:57 PM
Thanks to a Campaign Desk reader for flagging this stomach-turning CNN special. On yesterday's "Inside Politics," wedged between a segment... More
Hat Tip, Interrupted
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2004 at 04:27 PM
Last night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, to use Atrios' words, went "nuclear" on Matthew Dowd, a senior Bush-Cheney strategist and Hardball... More
It’s August, and the Dogs Are Eating the Dogs
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2004 at 04:15 PM
The traditional August lull in election-year ads is a thing of the past, writes Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press.... More
Renee Zellwegger - the New Ohio?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 16, 2004 at 04:34 PM
How many swing voter posts in one day is too many? We decide, you retort. Remember, back in the spring,... More
Oops, They Didn’t Do it Again
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2004 at 03:51 PM
Add today's story by Andy Lenderman of the Albuquerque Journal to the What Not to Do list. Lenderman reports that... More
He Said/She Said Rears His/Her Ugly Head - Yet Again
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2004 at 03:47 PM
As we've suggested more than once before, it is a dereliction of duty when journalists report a campaign claim and... More
The Common Man As Parrot
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2004 at 06:18 PM
For months now, Campaign Desk has watched as campaign talking points (or key lines from attack ads and campaign speeches)... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
