Covering a “Koch-Fueled” Weekend in CA

Reports from the clandestine conservative confab

By Liz Cox Barrett   Feb 3, 2011 at 03:38 PM

Charles and David Koch, the billionaire owners of Koch Industries, hosted a semi-annual, invitation-only conference for conservative political donors, strategists,... More

Beltway Reacts to Passing of Meet the Press “Butler”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM

Today, the Washington Post profiles Saadalla Mohamed Aly, the "perenially tuxedoed butler" (no lie!) for NBC's Sunday morning political chat... More

State of the Union, in a Word

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 26, 2011 at 10:19 AM

Last night NPR asked listeners to describe President Obama's State of the Union address "in three words," and then ran... More

What Not to Do in Campaign Reporting

Star Tribune writes down Bachmann’s “strong opinions”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 25, 2011 at 03:56 PM

Campaign 2012 is underway, even with but one declared Republican contender. And so comes an example of What Not to... More

Q & A: Election Law Expert Richard L. Hasen

How the press fared covering the post-Citizens United landscape, and stories to do now

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 21, 2011 at 12:32 PM

On the eve of the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election... More

Who’s Afraid of a Little Passing Press Scrutiny?

Politico on the fundraising freshmen

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 19, 2011 at 04:12 PM

They’re quick studies, the newest members of Congress, according to this story from Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel. Vogel reports that... More

Tunisia “Mesmerized” Journalists

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 19, 2011 at 01:18 PM

Worth a re-read, (especially) in light of current events in Tunisia: this CJR piece from November in which Justin D.... More

McClelland in Port-au-Prince

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 13, 2011 at 11:21 AM

It's been one year, as of 4:53pm yesterday, since a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti. I highly recommend Mac McClelland's... More

On Haiti

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 11, 2011 at 04:19 PM

It was a year ago, tomorrow, that Haiti experienced a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the... More

PAC Man

USAT, NYT on skirting federal campaign donation limits (creatively)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM

How do potential presidential candidates circumvent donation-limiting federal campaign laws? Let us count the ways. There’s the federal PAC way.... More

Seeing Double (the Errors)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jan 6, 2011 at 12:20 PM

Explaining our complicated campaign finance system is, yes, complicated. How complicated? Ask the Malveaux twins. Suzanne Malveaux is a CNN... More

Best of 2010: Liz Cox Barrett

Barrett picks her top stories from 2010

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 27, 2010 at 01:00 PM

Target Corp.'s "Perfect Storm." Target was but one of several Minnesota-based companies to spend corporate money on election 2010, as... More

And The Winner Is

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 22, 2010 at 12:56 PM

An argument for including TV news chyrons in CJR's The Lower Case feature ("headlines that editors probably wish they could... More

More On Outside Interests Inside Sacramento

Mercury News updates “sponsored bills” investigation

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 21, 2010 at 03:17 PM

The San Jose Mercury News's Karen de Sá has filed an update to her excellent series on "sponsored bills" in... More

Pip Pip Cheerio, “Awful” Newspapers

By Liz Cox Barrett   Dec 21, 2010 at 10:13 AM

Kevin Connolly, who has covered the USA for the BBC for the past three years, has written a Farewell, America... More