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Tony Blair, Elizabeth Edwards and “Normal People”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 19, 2004 at 10:31 AM
Monday mornings mean, among other things, that there's an entire weekend's worth of press output over which "pretend journalists" can... More
Points for Pointing Out Press Parroting Points
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 16, 2004 at 03:06 PM
Last night, "The Daily Show"'s John Stewart tickled Campaign Desk's fancy with his segment on two of our pet topics:... More
Softballs for the Prez, Cookies for the Press
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2004 at 03:25 PM
Last week, the National Journal's William Powers wondered why the political press doesn't cover campaign events like the highly staged... More
In the War Room
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2004 at 05:44 PM
Two reporters from big-shot newspapers were, to the certain envy of their peers everywhere, granted one-day backstage passes to the... More
The Sincerest Form of Flattery
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 13, 2004 at 12:27 PM
No need to read both Newsweek and Time in your dentist's waiting room this week. Once again, the two newsweeklies... More
Press Can’t Keep Hands Off Non-Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 12, 2004 at 01:52 PM
Every day, campaign "stories" (or storylines) concocted in the shadowy back alleys of the world wide web seep into the... More
Sorry, We’ve Gone to the Movies
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2004 at 12:15 PM
Imagine, for a moment, a political press corps that approached and covered presidential campaigns like the high-budget Hollywood spectacles that... More
Elizabeth Edwards Gets the Once-Over Lightly
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2004 at 02:42 PM
A vacuum yawns before the campaign press. With the veepstakes at last put to bed, how ever will political reporters... More
C Is For Cookie (Or Maybe C-Minus)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 6, 2004 at 05:26 PM
While pundits digest the news of a Kerry-Edwards ticket (and regurgitate both campaigns' talking points on the matter), Campaign Desk... More
Reporters Touch Down in Small Towns
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 2, 2004 at 02:09 PM
On Monday, Campaign Desk pointed to a Washington Post piece nominating the "hook and bullet" crowd (hunting and fishing enthusiasts,... More
Press Girds Loins as Big Time Leaves Undisclosed Location
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 1, 2004 at 03:24 PM
The vice president, it seems, has cursed his way back onto reporters' radar screens. Whether prompted by the f-word episode... More
Says Who? Says You
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 30, 2004 at 12:02 PM
It's only Wednesday, but The Boston Globe's Glen Johnson is already in the hunt for this week's unsupported lead prize.... More
Profiles in Source Greasing
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2004 at 02:09 PM
Having done the veepstakes to death, awaiting the conventions or another naughty word from a White House official, what's a... More
Hooking This Week’s Cliche
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2004 at 03:19 PM
Every few weeks, campaign reporters go fishing for the new new thing -- that elusive cluster of voters with a... More
Kerry: Beauty and the Beast
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2004 at 12:15 PM
By Liz Cox Barrett Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a senator named John who... 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)
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.
