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WSJ, Where The Women Are (Not)?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 7, 2008 at 09:52 AM
Jeff Bercovici explores what he calls the "woman problem" at The Wall Street Journal, which he describes as "if not... More
Everyone’s Huffing The Same Stuff
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 7, 2008 at 09:02 AM
Confirmed: the people who bring us our campaign news all read the same handful of blogs (HuffPo, Ambinder, TPM, The... More
Vacation For (From?) Obama
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Obama this. Obama that. "48% of the public says they have been hearing 'too much' about Obama lately," according to... More
Covering Beijing; Reporters Feel The Heat
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Two separate and unequal press centers; ever-changing rules for Who Can Report From/About Tiananmen Square (And Other Landmarks) and When;... More
McCain Likes Not (Knows Not?) What He Does
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 6, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Today, the New York Times' Maureen Dowd diagnoses John McCain with an advanced case of "boy envy" (Barack Obama being,... More
How Do “Indelible Images” Get That Way?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 6, 2008 at 08:43 AM
The Boston Globe has an article today about how the presidential candidates "strive to establish [an] image and make it... More
PEJ Index: Special Snaps For Cable TV!
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2008 at 04:13 PM
I know I'm supposed to be focusing on the headline to the PEJ's Campaign Coverage Index (that last week "McCain... More
Obama: “Way Cooler,” Preferred Carpooler
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2008 at 03:47 PM
"Young people finding Obama way cooler than McCain," reports the Associated Press, based on a few cool-kid-on-the-street interviews (prompted, it... More
ABC News Will Not Moderate Fall Debates
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Well-known news anchors for CBS, NBC and PBS will moderate the four scheduled presidential and vice-presidential debates this fall, per... More
Mission Accomplished For (That Other) Harper’s
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM
CJR writing about MSNBC talking about the New York Post writing about* Harper's Bazaar (and its Tyra Banks-as-Michelle-Obama photo shoot... More
Noah: That Story On Obama’s Eyebrows? Pluck It.
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2008 at 08:50 AM
Not only was that "could Obama's skinniness be a liability?" Wall Street Journal article...let's call it...thinly sourced, it also, according... More
ABC News’s Bentonite Story: What Now?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2008 at 04:10 PM
This ABC News-bentonite story that Glenn Greenwald has been all over at Salon raises so many Big Questions For Journalism... More
How “onlinebeerbellygirl” Made the WSJ and NYT!
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2008 at 01:46 PM
Remember that "could Obama's skinniness be a liability?" story from Friday's Wall Street Journal? The one about which Megan wrote,... More
“The End of Rakan’s War”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2008 at 11:53 AM
"Would he still be alive if I didn't write about him?" is one of the heartbreaking questions Kevin Cullen, a... More
Honesty In Column-Writing (Brady on Carr)
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Did Forbes.com columnist James Brady perhaps just mean to think what he actually wrote? Brady is disappointed with Night of... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
