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Jude Law, Judge Roberts and a Fashion Statement
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 26, 2005 at 12:53 PM
It's News of the Week word association time. We say "Law" and you think first -- admit it -- of... More
It’s Clement! No, It’s Roberts! No, It’s a Mariachi Band!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2005 at 03:48 PM
What's a Cable News Talking Head to do when he has spent all afternoon on air next to a blow-up... More
A Fifty Percent Chance of News
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 19, 2005 at 11:26 AM
"It Could Rain This Morning." "The Red Sox Could Win Tonight." "Bush Could Name Nominee As Early As Today." Helpful... More
Andrew Marshall on Security in Iraq, Relying on Iraqi Staff, and Turning a Baghdad Bureau Into a Bunker
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2005 at 06:00 PM
Andrew Marshall Andrew Marshall served as Reuters' Iraq bureau chief, based in Baghdad, from August 2003 until June 2005.... More
Reporters, Bored, Manufacture Marital Discord
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 13, 2005 at 03:08 PM
If you believe what you read in the news, Laura Bush on Tuesday made an urgent, public plea to her... More
CNN: “We Decide, You Do a Doubletake”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 12, 2005 at 04:56 PM
On any given day, you're bound to see something on cable news that boggles the mind. (And we're not talking... More
With Miller Behind Bars, the Knives Come Out
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 7, 2005 at 11:44 AM
With Judy in jail -- a development that yesterday left even Wonkette "sort [of] out of glib right now" --... More
Summer Reading to Keep You Slim
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 6, 2005 at 01:46 PM
Looking for a light summer read? An "important book," maybe, but also "a funny book, in a lot of parts"?... More
Media Speculate That Media Will … Speculate!
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 5, 2005 at 04:21 PM
The headline on Elisabeth Bumiller's New York Times piece yesterday read as follows: "Bush's Decision: Speculation on Contenders Begins Despite... More
Who Were Those Masked Men?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2005 at 04:44 PM
Six-year-old Charlee Liebers was among the "war protesters" gathered yesterday afternoon near Fort Bragg, the site of President Bush's speech... More
NBC Flogs a Lame Horse
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2005 at 04:58 PM
Surely CJR Daily was not alone this week in our perhaps child-like hope that Cruise v. Lauer was, as Dick... More
Vote on This, Wolf
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 13, 2004 at 10:53 AM
On CNN's "Late Edition" yesterday, Wolf Blitzer presented viewers with the "Web Question of the Week," and invited them, as... More
Revised Forecast: Snow! Lots and Lots of Snow!
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 9, 2004 at 04:46 PM
Remember what the New York Times told you on Monday about Treasury Secretary John Snow's certain doom, as "signaled" by... More
Why Draft a Press Release When AP Will Do?
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 8, 2004 at 01:51 PM
Please excuse us for thinking we were reading an NBC corporate press release rather than a news story when we... More
… Who Shall Remain Anonymous Because He Doesn’t Want You to Know Who He Is …
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 6, 2004 at 02:25 PM
Cabinetstakes, as CJR Daily noted recently, is the new default choice of Washington reporters who no longer have a veepstakes... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
