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How To Start NY Media Salivating
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 02:05 PM
Hi, reporter for important New York news outlet? Let's say the wife of a founder of Google founded a genetic... More
Part 1 of Fox on “First Dude?” Meatless
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 01:04 PM
Turns out, Part 2 of what Fox News's on-screen graphic promised would be "Greta Goes to Alaska to Discover the... More
“First Dude” Dodges Fox News’s “Are You Cold” Queries
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Gibson's "Get" wasn't the only one to be gotten. Fox News's Greta Van Susteren got the "first interview" with Todd... More
Conduct Unbecoming
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Richard Cohen in today's Washington Post: John McCain has "soiled" his "integrity." And, according to Cohen, "the precise moment of... More
‘PigGate Places Second?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2008 at 09:17 AM
Last week? Very "Palin-centric," according to PEJ's News Coverage Index, which shows Palin starring as "the focal point of the... More
If Hairstyles Could Talk
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 03:58 PM
Boston-based hair stylists have had their say. The LA Times's fashion critic, too, http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/what_feeling_do_you_get_from_p.php">has spoken. Now, the New York Times'... More
Galveston (And Beyond)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 03:40 PM
There is much to report, from coastal Texas, on what Hurricane Ike wrought. And no shortage of journalists there to... More
Covering “Thanks, But No Thanks”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 12:56 PM
"Thanks, but no thanks." Gov. Sarah Palin is still saying it on the stump. She said it over the weekend... More
What Campaign Trail Bubble?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM
The Washington Post 's E.J. Dionne: I can't believe how small a role our economic crisis is playing in the... More
“Even Karl Rove”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Pssst, campaign reporters! Permission to say that the McCain campaign has, perhaps, on occasion, stretched the truth: granted! It's ok... More
The Sky Is Falling (Below The Fold)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 10:27 AM
What do you lead with today? With the sky falling in American finance (and the sky having just barely cleared... More
Imagined: Couric on Palin
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 15, 2008 at 09:13 AM
David Carr imagines a Couric-on-Palin interview: It is telling that when the McCain campaign was looking for a soft place... More
Bill’s Back! From Liability to “Swami”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM
On MSNBC this morning: JOE SCARBOROUGH: Barack Obama's biggest mistake in the campaign thus far may have been the fact... More
Our “Trouble” With Lies
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 11, 2008 at 11:28 AM
As Michael Kinsley ">sees it: In a democracy, obvious lies and obvious liars should be self-defeating. Why aren’t they? One... More
Sheepish, Bullish on ‘PigGate
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Last night, it was with a certain sheepishness that Anderson Cooper kicked off AC360 with, natch, talk of 'PigGate: COOPER:... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
