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Another Close Comparison
There’s something about Glenn…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 22, 2008 at 08:16 AM
The works of Glenn Close (in starring and supporting roles alike) are getting a workout from campaign observers observing the... More
Dazed and Confused (Watching MSNBC Again)
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2008 at 02:57 PM
No, Contessa Brewer, this wasn't as bad as the time back in January when you interviewed that insightful young man/book... More
Journalism’s Real Liberal Bias?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Forget a liberal bias among journalists, argues Conor Friedersdorf on DoubleThink Online. It's journalistic convention that leans liberal. That is,... More
EXUBERANT HEADLINE! Buzzkill Lede
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2008 at 02:01 PM
The sound of the lede bursting the headline's bubble: Kentucky Enquirer headline: "CLINTONS' VISITS PAY OFF AS HILLARY ROLLS IN... More
Cartoon Candidates
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Last night MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, to his own visible satisfaction, added to last week's colorful characterizations of Camp Clinton on... More
Lynn Sweet, The “Specialist”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2008 at 09:51 AM
The New York Observer profiles Lynn Sweet, the Chicago Sun-Times' Washington bureau chief and Obama campaign reporter. Says Sweet: “I... More
Dowd Hears Voices
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2008 at 08:46 AM
Today, the New York Times' Maureen Dowd fancies herself a fly on the wall, drafting "The Last Debate" between Sen.... More
Clinton and the “Cloak of Invisibility”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 21, 2008 at 08:33 AM
How a TV critic comes to the conclusion that it's all but over for Hillary Clinton: While Sen. Obama's and... More
“Just This Great Distraction”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2008 at 02:52 PM
From tonight's Nightline story on US Weekly ("Stars, Skin, Scandal: Secrets of US Weekly"): "There was a lot of depressing... More
Today’s “Reckoning”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2008 at 10:03 AM
More "reckoning" on this morning's Today Show ("The Gender Factor: Did being a woman hurt Clinton?") in which another one... More
CNN Does=Politics! (Domestic Politics, At Least)
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2008 at 09:49 AM
According to the new Campaign Coverage Index by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, last week "cable news devoted 74%... More
Never Met a Poll He Didn’t…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 20, 2008 at 08:28 AM
Hate? I thought the campaign press loved polls -- those snapshots from which all sorts of alarming conclusions may be... More
The “Reckoning”
Let the parsing of what Clinton’s near-miss means for women begin!
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Jodi Kantor writes in today's New York Times: Along with the usual post-mortems about strategy, message and money, [and, I'd... More
It Pains McCain to Prevaricate?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2008 at 11:05 AM
From Matt Bai's New York Times magazine cover story on John McCain: John McCain has never been very good at... More
CNN’s Declaration of Independence
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2008 at 08:31 AM
This CNN ad campaign was new to me (I saw it over the weekend on NY1). (VOICEOVER) Every American is... 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.
