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“Finally.” (As You Were)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2009 at 01:02 PM
Coverage of American Idol almost-winner Adam Lambert coming out in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone: Is there a lede... More
Reilly Fingers Times Co. For Guild Vote
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM
The Boston Phoenix's Adam Reilly finds it remarkable that the New York Times Co.'s contract proposal to the Boston Newspaper... More
WaPo on “Palin’s Appearance”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Is it just us (with LipstickOnAPigGate, WardrobeGate, and all still fresh in our heads) or do you, too, think that... More
Blogger Raising Money For Somali Reporter “Targeted For Assassination”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Two years ago, freelance war reporter and warisboring blogger David Axe wrote a piece for CJR about the dangers of... More
Bronstein: In “Obama-Press Dance… We’re The Girl”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Arguing that journalists have caught the vapors over President Obama and gone faint with their coverage, Phil Bronstein attempts at... More
A “Great Debate” on CNN
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2009 at 04:39 PM
Andrew Sullivan was nearly as amused/satisfied by "Michael Ware's contempt for the corny CNN set-up" in the following recent "Great... More
NPR: “Hooking Up Is Becoming a Trend…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2009 at 02:00 PM
..."among young people who have entered the workaday world." So reports NPR's Brenda Wilson today, at length (nearly nine minutes).... More
Poniewozik Ponders: “Who Pays For Journalism?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2009 at 01:25 PM
From Time's TV critic, James Poniewozik (I, for one, appreciate when he shifts gears from the late night talk show... More
From Boy’s Lips To Murdoch’s Ears
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Today in Desperately Seeking The Future of News-type coverage: The Guardian chats with a 13- year-old boy in the UK... More
New Editor-in-Chief “Appointed” For Abu Dhabi’s National
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Per The Financial Times: The National newspaper, which is owned by the Abu Dhabi government, on Monday appointed a new... More
“Dilemma Reporters Face”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2009 at 11:50 AM
The Deputy Press Secretary for the Bush Administration, Tony Fratto, recently slammed the White House press corps for, he said,... More
Ling, Lee Convicted in Pyongyang
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, held in North Korea since March on vague charges, received "harsher sentences... More
“Tanning Myself By The Gleam of Fareed Zakaria’s Teeth…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2009 at 09:57 AM
...and more from Stephen Colbert on "Why I Took This Crummy Job" (guest-editing Newsweek.) Colbert explains his Iraq-centric cover: I... More
Upcoming McSweeney’s Will Be “Beautiful, Luxurious” “Newspaper Prototype”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 01:36 PM
Dave Eggers, novelist and McSweeney's editor, tells SpliceToday's John Lingan (via mass email): Pretty soon, on the McSweeney’s website, we’ll... More
President Tunes Out TV Pundits
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 12:29 PM
President Obama during last night's BriWi special (h/t, TVNewser): "I don't find most of the cable chatter persuasive." (Imagine if... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
