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Why Is “NO-PRAH” News?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 8, 2008 at 11:09 AM
There are sins of commission and sins of omission. Oprah's Sin of Omission: not having Gov. Sarah Palin on her... More
Just a “Dash” of Media Bash
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM
From "Media Bashing 101" (Intro to Media "Criticism" As Campaign Tool?) with the New York Times' Mark Leibovitch: [M]edia bashing... More
The Palin Get: ABC’s Gibson, Alaska-Bound!
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 8, 2008 at 09:37 AM
ABC News's Charles Gibson's has landed the "first television interview" with Gov. Sarah Palin since Palin joined the Republican presidential... More
Un-Blurring the Line at MSNBC?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 8, 2008 at 08:41 AM
Per the New York Times, MSNBC's "bold experiment...putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor... More
In Wasilla: Working Hard? Hardly Working?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 4, 2008 at 10:50 AM
From the Anchorage Daily News: Tailgaters [Sports Bar & Grill in Wasilla, Alaska] was packed to capacity and then some... More
History! Herstory? Hairstory
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 4, 2008 at 09:38 AM
You knew it was coming: From today's Boston Herald (h/t, Kevin D. Williamson): "Stylists to passé Sarah Palin: Let your... More
Cable Consensus: Starry Night
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 4, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Republicans like to say the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin -- and, specifically, her rousing speech last night -- are... More
Heckuva Job, Brownie
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 3, 2008 at 01:08 PM
Perhaps you watched that now-infamous Campbell Brown interview of (McCain aide) Tucker Bounds and concluded that CNN's Brown was doing... More
Talking Heads Tell Palin What To Do
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 3, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Tell us, talking heads, what Gov. Sarah Palin "has to do" tonight in her speech at the Republican convention? (And... More
Giuliani On GMA: Palin, Verb, 9/11
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 3, 2008 at 09:50 AM
Rudy Giuliani was on Good Morning America earlier. Today's noun? Palin. DIANE SAWYER: If [Palin] were the president on 9/11,... More
Palin’s Hometown Paper Reports From St. Paul
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 3, 2008 at 09:08 AM
From the (Wasilla, Alaska) Frontiersman: “We’ve all done three, four, five, six interviews all over the world,” [Alaska delegate] [Dick]... More
You Meant Those Other “Sunday Talk Shows?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 3, 2008 at 08:32 AM
From Fred Thompson's speech at the RNC last night: Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy... More
Sometimes When You “Flush The Toilet,” It Overflows
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2008 at 03:23 PM
From one of those three A1 New York Times Palin pregnancy stories today: Mr. McCain’s campaign, which has shown itself... More
Next Up: What My Great Uncle Thinks About The Palin Pregnancy
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2008 at 01:41 PM
"Everyone has an opinion on Bristol pregnancy," proclaims a headline in the San Francisco Chronicle. But only Newsweek brings us... More
“Stargazing,” Convention-Style
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2008 at 01:27 PM
Per the Associated Press: RNC delegates "devoted time to political stargazing on a day devoid of any major political speeches...... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
