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This Word Just In From the Leisure Pursuits Beat …
Some newspaper columnists chronicle appalling injustices in faraway places. Others find them right under their noses.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 27, 2006 at 02:43 PM
Some newspaper columnists chronicle appalling injustices in faraway places. Others find them right under their noses. On Friday, the Wall... More
Mannies Return After Four-Year Absence
Male nannies are the “hot new thing” — at least among the nation’s reporters, who have lately produced a crop of thinly-reported trend-chasing pieces on the subject.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 21, 2006 at 10:55 AM
According to Foxnews.com's Michael Y. Park yesterday, male nannies (aka, mannies) are the "hot new thing" -- there is a... More
CJR Daily Traces the Birth of a Narrative
Pundits and reporters are asking whether President Bush is at a “turning point” - and when a question gets asked often enough, before long the question mark is dropped entirely and a narrative is born.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2006 at 10:24 AM
Tide turning. On a roll. Turning point. Resurgence. Turnaround. Bounce. Pendulum swinging. Bump. However they choose to phrase it (and... More
Vanity Fair Covers Wall Street’s Vainest
Money, as they say, truly can’t buy taste. Power? Yes. The awe of financial reporters? In some cases, yes. Perspective or self-awareness? Nope.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2006 at 03:50 PM
This month, along with a cover story on Sandra Bullock's married life and Christopher Hitchens' "Oral History of the Blow... More
Biz Press Teaches Teens to Heed Dumb Statistics
Perhaps it’s a good thing teenagers these days aren’t reading newspapers - it can be confusing enough as it is to be 17 or 18.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 8, 2006 at 12:00 PM
Perhaps it's a good thing teenagers these days aren't reading newspapers -- it can be confusing enough as it is... More
Magazine Makes News by Having a Name
What is there to say about a publication which was announced last August but won’t appear on newsstands until late April 2007? Apparently plenty.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 6, 2006 at 05:45 PM
Kudos to the people behind the rollout of Condé Nast's new business magazine for landing a friendly 1457-word piece on... More
Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism
The PBS anchor discusses his upcoming special featuring Ben Bradlee, the importance of public discourse and how to handle untruths from politicians.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2006 at 05:32 PM
Ben Bradlee and Jim Lehrer Jim Lehrer is the executive editor and anchor of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim... More
The MSM Blogs Up a Storm
Network news blogs bring us political prognostications, facts about obtaining press credentials in Caracas, and happy birthday wishes for a network news blog.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2006 at 05:03 PM
May 31, 2006 may forever be known at NBC, and around the world, as Katie's Last Day. But all the... More
Tears and Jeers for Katie’s Farewell
Oh Katie — you’re really gone! Oh, wait, you’re just moving to another network …
By Liz Cox Barrett May 31, 2006 at 01:44 PM
On this, Katie's Last Day!, Ms. Couric is receiving shout-outs from all over the 'sphere -- some syrupy, some surly,... More
Newsweek Discovers Doomed Spinsters Marrying
It’s not often that we have to wait 20 years for a correction, but this is one of those times.
By Liz Cox Barrett May 30, 2006 at 02:48 PM
It's not often that we have to wait 20 years for a correction, but this is one of those times.... More
Mindreaders Befuddled by Enron Jury
As the nation waited to hear the outcome of the Enron trial, television news hosts struggled to fill empty airtime.
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2006 at 01:37 PM
Word came late yesterday morning that the Enron verdict would be announced at noon -- just the sort of biding-time,... More
Prefrontal Cortexes Fuel Talk Radio?
As you read this, experts are hard at work studying the brains of people suffering from myriad ills, from Alzheimer’s to dyslexia … to, apparently, political passion.
By Liz Cox Barrett May 24, 2006 at 02:04 PM
As you read this, experts are hard at work studying the brains of people suffering from myriad ills, from Alzheimer's... More
Wanted: “Un-Journalists” to Cover the 2008 Election
What’s a political reporter to do when the presidential primaries are nearly two years away? Why, hand out meaningless titles, like “The Un-Hillary”!
By Liz Cox Barrett May 24, 2006 at 12:09 PM
There is, as is sometimes the case, a certain familiarity to the front of this week's New York magazine. The... More
Aliens: A Topic Made for Blogging
The blogosphere is busy dissecting the media’s (mis)handling of the immigration debate — and in most cases, amnesty is not being offered.
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2006 at 02:30 PM
The blogosphere is busy dissecting the media's (mis)handling of the immigration debate -- and in most cases, amnesty is not... More
Morning Shows Buried By Snowstorm
On Wednesday, Tony Snow did William Ginsburg one better, appearing (or appearing to appear) on all three network morning shows at the same time.
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2006 at 10:48 AM
You've heard of a "Full Ginsburg" (that is, when one guest appears back-to-back on a single day on each of... 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.
