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Accessory to the Candidate
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 3, 2010 at 09:25 AM
In anticipation of Florida's primary day, August 24, the St. Petersburg Times on Sunday helped acquaint readers with the wives... More
More Songs For Amanpour
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM
One TV critic's "panache and briskness" is another's "shrill and showy." Some of the very things that the New York... More
Mercury News: Lobbyists As “Shadow Legislature” in CA
A special report explains the “Sacramento version” of lawmaking
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2010 at 11:44 AM
There's the "Civics Class Version" of “How Laws Are Created," in which, in brief, a legislator has an idea for... More
Obama on The View (On Afghanistan, On Snooki)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2010 at 11:14 AM
For anyone, like me, who happens not to right now be watching (and/or Twittering about), President Obama on The View... More
For CNN: The “What Glenn Beck Said” Show
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Nancy Franklin On Television in the current New Yorker: Everyone, it seems, is a media hound and a media watchdog... More
The Summer of Alvin Greene?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03 AM
"People who write about Alvin Greene are going to get clicked on," [Democratic operative Wyeth] Ruthven explains to Politico's Jonathan... More
Be Joy Behar (What Would You Ask Obama?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 26, 2010 at 02:26 PM
A "non-traditional news show” is how the White House describes ABC's The View, in explaining to the New York Times's... More
Blog Reax to WikiLeaks’s Leak (Afghan War’s Pentagon Papers?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 26, 2010 at 01:48 PM
Once you’ve finished reading the 90,000-plus mostly classified Afghanistan-related U.S. military documents brought to you by WikiLeaks, you can read... More
A Story in Screen Shots: Cable News Covers Lohan
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2010 at 02:51 PM
A chronological summary, in screen shots, of the cable news coverage of Lindsay Lohan reporting to the Beverly Hills Municipal... More
The Young and The Burned Out
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 19, 2010 at 03:53 PM
The "state of the media business these days," writes the New York Times's Jeremy W. Peters, is "frantic and fatigued."... More
It’s Morning in “Top Secret America”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 19, 2010 at 12:19 PM
The Washington Post rolls out its significant "Top Secret America" project today, a public records-based investigation of America's post-9/11 national... More
BBC for Us!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM
BBC is today launching an original U.S. news Web site! (When Jay Rosen met with BBC execs, he tweets, he... More
Most Politico Sentence In Politico Piece
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM
It's hard to choose just one. But, here's my vote for The Most Politico (Half-)Sentence in the Politico piece today,... More
Some Spice in the Pundit Pool
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2010 at 09:58 AM
Yesterday, George Stephanopoulos's offerings on Good Morning America looked, sounded, and smelled a lot like his offerings on This Week... More
In Afghanistan: “Yes, That Was Your Son”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2010 at 04:41 PM
Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in three attacks in southern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, per the LA Times.... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
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.
