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Roxana Saberi to be Released
By Liz Cox Barrett May 11, 2009 at 09:35 AM
Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist charged with spying for Washington and sentenced in Iran to an eight-year jail term, will... More
Bingo! Zuckerman’s Solution For Newspapers
By Liz Cox Barrett May 7, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Granted, New York Magazine got this quote from Mort Zuckerman at Time magazine's Time 100 gala but here we have... More
Milbank: “They Came as if To Their Own Funeral”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 7, 2009 at 09:32 AM
...writes the Washington Post's Dana Milbank of fellow reporters who came to observe yesterday's Senate hearing on "The Future of... More
Live Blogging “Future of Journalism” Hearing
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2009 at 03:22 PM
CJR staffers will be live blogging The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation's "Future of Journalism" hearing in the... More
Testify
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2009 at 01:01 PM
This afternoon, The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation's Subcomittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet holds its hearing... More
Hey, New Yorker: “Stop Chasing Skirts and Ambulances”…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM
...and other loving criticisms (and extolments) of favorite print publications from readers of The Morning News. More
MoDo on the “Shiny Slot Machine of Their Mutual Ambition”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Maureen Dowd seems to have a "thing" about ambition-- in others. Today she writes caustically of the "shiny slot machine... More
“Can [WaPo Ombud] Man Up And Step Into [Deborah Howell’s] Shoes?”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 04:30 PM
...asks a Post reader (and apparent Deborah Howell Fan) of Andy Alexander, Howell's successor as the Post's ombudsman, during an... More
Where’s The Beef?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 03:14 PM
President Obama offered to buy burgers today for the journalists covering his spontaneous lunch trip with Vice President Biden to... More
“Act Like Those Underdog Newspapers of Years Ago…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 01:48 PM
...says Martin Kaiser, editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and newly-named president of the American Society of News Editors, in... More
Meacham’s Quarterly Weekly?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 01:01 PM
Don't these things usually go inside? Behold, the wrap-around, faux-front cover* of the current Newsweek (the new Newsweek, for "thinking... More
Today In White House Press Corps “News”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Who's bringing whom, so far, to the White House Correspondents Dinner? According to FishbowlDC's count: the Emanuel brothers are divided... More
“Five Good Years Left, If That” For Talk Radio?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Talkers magazine's Michael Harrison talks about the present and future of AM/FM radio with the Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby. More
Big Hairy Turnoff
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 04:40 PM
The extent of what I learned from today's Washington Post article, "Getting Their (Wireless) Lines Crossed," the latest in the... More
SupremeStakes Begins
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 02:04 PM
With word that Supreme Court Justice David Souter will soon retire, so begins SupremeStakes 2009 (frenzied press speculation of the... 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 New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
