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De Gall!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 28, 2008 at 02:08 PM
Christiane Amanpour's question for President Nicolas Sarkozy during a Paris press conference with Barack Obama late last week: (h/t TVNewser): More
Embracing “Dr. No”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Speaking of reading body language, both the Washington Post and the New York Times put on their front pages today... More
“Body Language Investigations” Abound
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 28, 2008 at 09:13 AM
"It's a body language investigation!" The IRE should have an award for this. Granted, no shoe leather was harmed (not... More
Easy “Breezy”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 28, 2008 at 08:34 AM
"Breathtakingly inappropriate," is how Eric Boehlert describes Ron Fournier's email exchanges with Karl Rove from 2004 (Fournier was an AP... More
Cut No Slack
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 24, 2008 at 11:07 AM
James Rainey in today's LA Times (emphasis mine): It seems like just about everybody has spent the last week beating... More
Say What, Shafer?*
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 24, 2008 at 10:22 AM
I often enjoy (and often agree with) Jack Shafer's stuff. But, what's up with this? Shafer wonders "why hasn't the... More
Russert’s Road (And Runway?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 24, 2008 at 10:04 AM
The Buffalo News reports that President Bush today signed a bill renaming part of Route 20A near Ralph Wilson Stadium... More
Novak in the News
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 24, 2008 at 09:19 AM
There's the Bob Novak-and-his-black-Corvette-hit-a-guy-yesterday story on Politico (according to a witness, "a black Corvette convertible with top closed plows into... More
Ohama? Versus…Cheney?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 23, 2008 at 02:58 PM
Among coverage of Obama's Overseas Trip on the Jerusalem Post's web site was the video below, in which The Media... More
A Stumper
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 23, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Here is Jon Friedman's "MEDIA WEB QUESTION OF THE DAY:" What do you think is the relationship between politics and... More
The Tanking Economy (For Dummies)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM
What happened? "Wall Street got drunk;" got a tattoo (which didn't look "gargantuan, inevitably tacky, gauche and ugly" at the... More
Matthews: Reporting “All Senses” (And Sensations)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 23, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Chris Matthews to Jay Leno Monday night, talking about his "thrill up my leg" (from Obama speech) comment (h/t TVNewser... More
Anonymous Cable News Interns: Have At It!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 23, 2008 at 08:45 AM
Radar Online "polled a number of current and former producers—the people with the best view of the tantrums and shouting... More
Doubletake: John Burns’s Doppelganger?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 22, 2008 at 03:32 PM
Here is Ashley Gilbertson, a photographer for the New York Times, talking about some of his (pretty stunning) images from... More
McCain Campaign Pursues Anti-Chris-Matthews Vote
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 22, 2008 at 12:42 PM
What was that John Heilemann was saying in New York magazine about the McCain campaign turning into the Clinton campaign?... 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.
