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How local PA TV played Obama’s speech
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 19, 2008 at 03:29 PM
“The immediate, tawdry issue for the Obama campaign,” according to Joe Klein on Time’s Swampland blog directly after Obama’s Speech... More
The Bar for Barack
Media anticipation for a “make or break” speech
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 18, 2008 at 10:20 AM
As much as anyone, the media is eagerly anticipating Sen. Barack Obama’s Speech On Race this morning. How so? Where... More
Covering a Comeuppance
Swept away by sex, psychoanalysis and schadenfreude?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2008 at 02:03 PM
Unsurprisingly, SpitzerGate filled a bit of airtime on the Sunday talking head shows. On the Chris Matthews Show, specifically, the... More
Primary Night Rally (With Blitzer)
Obama wins and so does Wolf
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2008 at 10:09 AM
After winning yesterday's Democratic primary in Mississippi, Sen. Barack Obama last night appeared on television to thank his supporters. A... More
TNR’s Press Corps Class War
Plus: Courting the saucy, snazzy “MoDowd”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2008 at 04:47 PM
There are Two Americas in the Obama traveling press corps, according to The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber. And just like... More
Covering ‘Client 9’
Headlines and Heidi
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Looks like the New York tabloids did not take any of CJR's humble suggestions for Spitzer-related headlines, going instead with... More
Meet the Press? Pass.
Sunday and Substance
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM
What do you do if you're a freshman senator—first year on the job—and you very much want to be taken... More
CNN’s Old Hat Texas Coverage
Luckily, some local columnists don’t watch cable
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 5, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Jeannie Kever began her Houston Chronicle column yesterday - a column applauding the "US media" for avoiding the "Texas cowboy... More
Political Punditry: Kids’ Stuff?
ABC’s Child Pundits Not Childish Enough
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM
You know how The Daily Show sometimes gets young kids to read and reenact actual moments in cable punditry, to... More
Hold the Sauce
What McCain cooked up for the press
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 3, 2008 at 05:33 PM
Sen. John McCain, the candidate who typically speaks his “straight talk” on the record, urged reporters to tuck their notebooks... More
It’s The Man Show — on MSNBC!
Stick to your knitting, ladies
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 27, 2008 at 05:37 PM
Watching MSNBC this morning I was reminded of a cop-out line from one of Maureen Dowd's recent harshing-on-Hillary New York... More
Russert Bags “The Marlin”
The most Russert-centric debate to date?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 27, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Who won the debate? Who won the debate? That is, of course, the key question for so many in the... More
Stay “Classy,” Clinton
But not till after tonight’s debate, Live on MSNBC!
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2008 at 02:07 PM
Jonathan Alter, the Newsweek columnist and MSNBC political pundit, thinks Hillary Clinton should pack it in ("Hillary Should Get Out... More
Elephant in the Studio
Doris Kearns Goodwin on PlagiarismGate 2008
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2008 at 05:37 PM
Which of Tim Russert's expert roundtablers did he turn to first on yesterday's Meet the Press to discuss PlagiarismGate (the... More
A Sorry Situation
How do you contain a cable conflagration?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 21, 2008 at 09:02 AM
It was all too predictable, what happened after Cindy McCain on Tuesday riffed on Michelle Obama’s recent “proud of my... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
