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Friday Night: Keeping Up Appearances
Jim Lehrer wants a “fair” debate
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 24, 2008 at 03:53 PM
In anticipation of Friday night’s first presidential debate (which, if John McCain has his way, might be postponed), the campaign... More
Scarborough, Assignment Editor
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 24, 2008 at 09:17 AM
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezenski, and the Financial Times's Chrystia Freeland on MSNBC this morning: SCARBOROUGH: Chrystia, let me tell you... More
Couric Preps For Palin
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 23, 2008 at 04:18 PM
From Katie Couric's blog: Friends come up to me wondering if I'll ask [during an interview with Sarah Palin this... More
How Do We Say This Delicately?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 23, 2008 at 02:59 PM
Ah, yes: CNN: "McCain drifts away from legacy of deregulation." "Drifts away" sounding more benign than, say, "slinks away" or... More
Palin’s “Photo Spray”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 23, 2008 at 01:54 PM
From the pool report* from Gov. Sarah Palin's "meeting" with Afghan president Hamid Karzai in New York today: Palin, her... More
Back on the Biden Bus
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 23, 2008 at 12:53 PM
When Sarah Palin joined the Republican ticket last month, http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-biden23-2008sep23,0,4764573.story?page=1">according to the LA Times's Faye Fiore today: a fickle press... More
ABC News Paid For “Other Materials”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM
And I was hoping I could ignore O.J. Simpson Trial, Vegas Edition. The New York Times reports that a key... More
Bono’s FT Blog
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 23, 2008 at 09:58 AM
Bono (of U2 and the One Campaign) and Jeffrey Sachs (of Columbia's Earth Institute) are blogging for the Financial Times... More
39 Days
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 23, 2008 at 09:13 AM
Washington Post: As of this writing, it has been 39 days and 22 hours since Sen. John McCain last held... More
84 to 2
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 22, 2008 at 02:30 PM
60 Minutes last night featured "a revealing side-by-side look at the candidates and their positions" (Steve Kroft interviewed Obama; Scott... More
Nobody Puts Press In The Parking Lot
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 22, 2008 at 02:07 PM
The "press tent was a lonely place to be" at last night's 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, reports Variety, due "the... More
That’s It?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 22, 2008 at 01:44 PM
Breaking: "Presidential candidates air attack ads," reports the AP's Nedra Pickler. Pickler's report, in full: Presidential candidates Barack Obama and... More
Debates: Jim Lehrer As Heidi Klum
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 22, 2008 at 11:45 AM
"Presidential debates should be a little more like [Bravo reality TV show] Project Runway," argues Time TV blogger James Poniewozik,"... More
Truth-Tellers, Lost and Found (In Week in Review)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 22, 2008 at 07:48 AM
In yesterday's New York Times "Week in Review," Patrick Healy wrote a piece headlined, "Let's Call a Lie A Lie...Finally.... More
David Brooks’s M.O.
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 22, 2008 at 07:35 AM
For anyone who has ever asked himself, "What's David Brooks thinking?" Brooks...admits he is something of a throwback. "This is... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
