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Joe, Cool
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 16, 2008 at 09:29 AM
While "Joe" (as in, The Plumber) was a frequently-used word during last night's debate, "cool" is a frequently-used word in... More
Apples to Acorn
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2008 at 03:18 PM
Fox News may be ahead in quantity of Acorn-related coverage (between Saturday and today at 3:00pm, TVEyes shows 556 mentions... More
Intro to Campaign Reporting
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2008 at 10:51 AM
From the New York Times's scene from Hofstra University, host of tonight's presidential debate: In a class on nonverbal communication,... More
Joe McCain, Ex-Reporter, Wants To Talk
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Sen. John McCain's younger brother, a onetime reporter, wants the McCain campaign to re-open press access (to the candidate and... More
“Tone and Tactics” Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2008 at 09:26 AM
From PEJ's report on last week's campaign coverage: [T]he media narrative of the campaign focused on tone and tactics last... More
AP: What “Could” Happen at Debate
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 14, 2008 at 05:10 PM
From the AP's Liz Sidoti: Advisers for each candidate say he will use the final debate to lay out his... More
Wolf Blitzer, Mother’s Helper?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 14, 2008 at 03:29 PM
From The Daily Beast's "Dear Sarah" letter offering advice to Gov. Palin should she find herself D.C.-bound: When a busy... More
Tomorrow Night: The Third Presidential “Something”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 14, 2008 at 02:30 PM
Dan Rather talking presidential debates at the Time Warner Media/Politics conference today (h/t Michael Calderone): "First of all, these aren’t... More
Oh, There’s Been A Moratorium On That?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 02:06 PM
From the Washington Post's Dan Balz: But there ought not to be any moratorium on asking hard questions of both... More
Mr. Andrea Mitchell
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Megan recently explored the trouble with Andrea Mitchell reporting, as she does sometimes on MSNBC, on the current financial crisis... More
Column Pairs Well With Cheez-Its
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 11:10 AM
In high school, Maureen Dowd confides in her New York Times column yesterday, Dowd "translated swatches of Julius Caesar's 'The... More
The AP’s Exclusive With “Wasilla Heartthrob”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 09:59 AM
Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin's fiancé, "agreed to talk" to the Associated Press's Adam Goldman ("despite the presidential campaign's advice in... More
NYT: Ten Percent “Policy Substance”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 09:33 AM
Clark Hoyt on election coverage in the New York Times: Through Friday, of 270 news articles published in The Times... More
“Well, Have Ya Seen the Latest Cover of Newsweek?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Because "any woman who sees this cover," Republican media consultant Andrea Tantaros explained yesterday on Fox News, "will be shocked... More
It’s Not What They Say About You…
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM
...it's what they whisper. The Washington Times might endorse Barack Obama, "insiders" whisper to U.S. News & World Report. "Times... 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.
