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Breaking BP News*
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2010 at 09:37 AM
Bristol Palin is engaged, again, to Levi Johnston, according to US Weekly's cover story (and picked up, oh, here and... More
Sir Anderson Cooper?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Yesterday marked six months since a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Haiti. The AP's Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news... More
NYT Wonders About Whitman’s “Business Decision”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 12, 2010 at 03:12 PM
The New York Times's Michael Luo reports that, in 2008, California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman invested some $1 million... More
“Driv[ing] Toward the News of the Day”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 12, 2010 at 09:47 AM
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz again profiles the man half of a man-woman morning news duo --"unfailingly polite" Bill Hemmer,... More
Lohan Sentenced To… OMG, Her Fingernail!?!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2010 at 11:41 AM
Yesterday, the actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail for probation violations (from a DUI conviction). Over... More
“Being Media Savvy Requires More Than Just Attention-Grabbing”?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Does it? From Mark Leibovich's profile of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), "Darrell Issa Emerges as Obama's Annoyer-in-Chief" in today's New... More
Oil Spill Touches Texas (“What’s Going Where?”)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 6, 2010 at 11:59 AM
A milestone of sorts in the BP oil spill story, as reported by the AP: More than two months after... More
Dr. Parker: Obama Suffers From RTDD
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 30, 2010 at 01:46 PM
Kathleen Parker, Eliot Spitzer's co-host for CNN's much-anticipated Not Crossfire show, has a Washington Post column out today with the... More
The Rap On From Kagan
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2010 at 05:06 PM
The Washington Post, having already brought us the definitive rap on Elena Kagan, today brings us a rap by Elena... More
Excrutiating (Also, Haunting)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Damon Winter's photograph on the front page of yesterday's New York Times. The scene captured-- soldier tearfully embraces family before... More
In Haiti, “When Is This All Going to End?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 24, 2010 at 09:11 AM
The New York Times has a wrenching piece today about sexual violence against women in Haiti, a piece in which... More
At 8pm, CNN Goes “Tangy” and “Spicy”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM
CNN has just announced the team that will take over Campbell Brown's 8pm slot: Eliot Spitzer, the former Democratic governor... More
“We Can Almost Pre-write the Headlines” (Almost?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2010 at 09:50 AM
For those who can't predict what the Washington press corps will write and say on cable if Gen. McChrystal still... More
Sparring, Spinning in West Palm Beach
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2010 at 07:30 AM
On Tuesday, the Palm Beach Post hosted (and broadcast on its Web site) a debate between Democratic Senatorial candidates Jeff... More
Would A Beat Reporter Have Written This McChrystal Piece?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 22, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Andrew Sullivan flags the following, found at the end of a McChrystal-related Politico piece today: McChrystal, an expert on counterterrorism... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
