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NYT Introduces (Explains) New “Social Media Editor”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
From the internal New York Times memo introducing Jennifer Preston, the paper's "Social Media Editor" (h/t, NiemanLab): Jennifer will work... More
Matthews Sees “A Campaign”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM
On MSNBC Chris Matthews has been excitedly characterizing this morning's official Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination announcement as the start... More
MSNBC Quotes “Unnamed Former Clarence Thomas Clerk…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 10:45 AM
...and so it begins, writes HuffPo's Jason Linkins in "How the Media Will Smear Sotomayor." More
An Actual WSJ Article
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 10:03 AM
As a co-worker said just now: you gotta hand it to The Wall Street Journal for their dogged pursuit of... More
Hoyt: On Rules and Internet Rough-Ups
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 08:17 AM
In Sunday's New York Times, public editor Clark Hoyt touched on some recent situations involving some of the paper's big... More
Cheney: NYT “Damn Sure Didn’t Serve…Safety Of Our People”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Just now from former VP Cheney's speech (think this will make it into any of the post-speech coverage/chatter?): Our government... More
Tapper Tweets Objections to Obama Speech
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM
ABC News's Jake Tapper Twitters his objections to President Obama's "media" mentions* in his speech: second time POTUS bashes media... More
“Massive Foreign Press Presence…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2009 at 10:13 AM
... awaiting former Vice President Cheney's speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., according to Ana Marie Cox,... More
Professor: “Journalists Deserve Low Pay”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2009 at 09:44 AM
Journalists should not be paid well, argues Robert G. Picard, a professor of media economics at Sweden's Jonkoping University, for... More
Be Big in Somalia
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2009 at 09:25 AM
Out-of-work cartoonists: want to draw for and about Somalia, being "humorous where possible" about such things as "persistent insecurity, natural... More
There’s An App For…What?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Folio reports on iPhone applications developed thus far by magazines (often "monetized" by ads or corporate sponsorships). "In February, Lucky... More
Your Local TV News (Soon With More Snuggie Ads)
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM
The Philadelphia Inquirer's TV critic, Jonathan Storm on how "local TV broadcasters, both in Philadelphia and across the country, [are]... More
“Is Anyone Okay?” Tweeting the Quake
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Two accounts of how the Orange County Register newsroom used Twitter (handle: OCReggie) during the May 17th earthquake in Southern... More
“Controversy” and Candor On Cable
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Heard earlier this morning on MSNBC, accompanying the headline: "TEEN BIRTH 'SHOCKER,' YouTube pulled graphic viral ad, but it is... More
From WaPo to HuffPo
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2009 at 09:36 AM
"Will P.R. pros take the baton of investigative journalism?" wonders Tim Cavanaugh at Reason, arguing that such a baton-pass wouldn't... 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.
