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Still “Shocking” After All These Weeks
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 29, 2004 at 03:12 PM
To students of Greek mythology, Echo is a beautiful wood nymph; to Campaign Desk, echo journalism is a vampire, and... More
Becky Diamond on “Pulling Teeth” and Orange Bowling on the Kerry Campaign
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 26, 2004 at 05:56 PM
Becky Diamond Since September, 35-year-old Becky Diamond has been on the campaign trail (plane, bus, rental car) covering Sen.... More
Reggie On the Rocks
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 26, 2004 at 03:15 PM
While bigshot East Coast reporters explored the Republican National Committee's impressively outfitted Reggie the (voter) Registration Rig yesterday amid the... More
Total Republicans Live
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 25, 2004 at 11:48 PM
Campaign Desk/Liz Cox Barrett After a night's rest in Secaucus, New Jersey, Reggie the Registration Rig -- the Republican... More
Serving Up the Green Stuff
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 25, 2004 at 12:42 PM
With plenty of deliciously partisan back-and -forth to tempt a political reporter's tummy lately, The Christian Science Monitor's Brad Knickerbocker... More
While Diane’s Away, the Mice Replay
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2004 at 12:57 PM
We've all had that delicious moment of temptation at one time or another: "The boss is away; I can do... More
“You Can Check Out Any Time You Want, But You Can Never Leave”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2004 at 03:36 PM
Today, the Los Angeles Times' Eric Slater writes somewhat sheepishly in his "Dispatch from Ketchum" that "this area in south-central... More
Policy? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Policy!
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 19, 2004 at 05:19 PM
We know that many in the press prefer to focus first on the fray -- most recently, who's no longer... More
Hello, Cleveland?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2004 at 06:58 PM
Sometimes it takes a little while for a story to bounce around the media echo chamber and reverberate into the... More
Anatomy of a Foul-Up
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2004 at 09:19 AM
By Liz Cox Barrett and Thomas Lang In yesterday's New York Times, Jodi Wilgoren informed readers that "the weeklong controversy"... More
Sounds Like a Crock to Us
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 15, 2004 at 09:05 PM
Last week, Jay Rosen opined that the lull between primary season and the conventions will become a "point in the... More
Helen Thomas on Grilling the Pinch Hitter
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2004 at 05:14 PM
Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House since 1961 -- first as a reporter for United Press International and,... More
Veepstakes Gone Wild
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2004 at 02:03 PM
For our part, we're happy to wait until John Kerry himself tells us just who it is that he plans... More
Who Says So?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 8, 2004 at 11:40 AM
This morning David Gregory, NBC's White House correspondent, brought "Today Show" viewers a segment on President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch... More
Bush’s Ads Beget Tidal Wave of Bloviation
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 5, 2004 at 01:12 PM
With the benefit of a few additional hours to ponder the president's first wave of campaign ads on TV, bloggers... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
