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That Crying Child With Leg Casts
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2008 at 08:45 AM
That recent A-1 New York Times photo of the crying baby in leg casts that stopped me (and, not surprisingly,... More
“Inspired” New York Post Reporting
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 9, 2008 at 08:06 AM
The New York Post reports it was "inspired by sexy CBS reporter Lara Logan's recent foreign affairs" (presumably its own... More
McCain Camp Won’t Call On Corn on Calls?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 8, 2008 at 03:45 PM
David Corn's first-hand experience has him wondering over at Mother Jones: Is the McCain campaign screening reporters [on its conference... More
Kurtz: “In-Bedded” Reporter (Now With Child)!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 8, 2008 at 02:09 PM
Last week, I complained about Howard Kurtz's handling of all the recent Lara Logan-related news. Basically, Kurtz reprinted five juicy... More
“Special Political Coverage” (By Any Other Name)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 8, 2008 at 10:57 AM
No fair! CNN is inflating the Coop's grades with their tricky program-naming scheme! So tattled MSNBC and Fox News to... More
John McCanine
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 8, 2008 at 09:56 AM
More Americans may want to BBQ with Barack, but the Associated Press-Yahoo News throws John a polling bone today: More... More
Press Giving McCain “Mad Pass” On Economic Plan?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 8, 2008 at 08:32 AM
Josh Marshall argues that the press coverage of McCain's economic plan (which Marshall summarizes as, "He's pledging to balance the... More
Intern-al Communication
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2008 at 01:33 PM
That news meeting? The one where the editor introduced the New Business Model? Here's what it looked like through the... More
Sasha Obama, This Could Be You!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2008 at 01:20 PM
Here's an Associated Press article that pretends to be about what the White House offers child residents ("an unparalleled view... More
Time: Rolling the Dice on McCain?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Bill Clinton famously suggested to Charlie Rose last December that to vote for Barack Obama, given what Clinton called his... More
Press Contrition Over Clark Coverage?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2008 at 08:38 AM
About all those election-related "media firestorms over supposedly revealing incidents that never actually took place," as Paul Krugman described them... More
Covering Flip-Flops (A How-To)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 3, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Over at Time.com, Michael Scherer (who once worked here at CJR) observes: Every day, flip-flop charges bang up against the... More
More on That WaPo Obama Mortgage Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 3, 2008 at 09:50 AM
Yesterday, my colleague Justin questioned the Washington Post's news judgment in running its Obama mortgage story. At Washington Monthly, Kevin... More
The Cult of Kiernan
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 3, 2008 at 08:55 AM
Pat Kiernan, the NY1 News anchor who reads New Yorkers' newspapers to them every morning in his In The Papers... More
NYT’s MTV Cribs-Like Limbaugh Profile
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 2, 2008 at 01:18 PM
At one point in his 7,000-plus-word profile of Rush Limbaugh for this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, reporter Zev Chafets... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
