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A Midsummer Donation Spike, With Context
Reports from recent campaign finance reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM
There is much that can not be found in publicly available federal campaign finance reports: the identities of all the... More
On Givhan
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 15, 2010 at 05:08 PM
For some fifteen years, Robin Givhan has served as fashion critic for the Washington Post which, Stephen Colbert once observed,... More
Comforting the Afflicted
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 8, 2010 at 04:12 PM
From a New York Times piece today about "high-end junk-food purveyors that have popped up around Capitol Hill recently:" Very... More
Coalition to Protect Workplace Lollygaggers
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 6, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Need a Monday morning study break? Try out the Political Action Committee (PAC) Name Generator, created by the Sunlight Foundation... More
The Ongoing Burmese “Information Challenge”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Over at PBS MediaShift, Simon Roughneen has a fascinating report on the ongoing difficulties of "getting the news out of... More
So You Want to Talk to the Governor?
The word “promise” comes up
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 1, 2010 at 10:03 AM
It's February, maybe March, of 2010. You're a political reporter frantically seeking face or phone time with Governor David Paterson... More
From “Arab Newsrooms,” Day Two
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 30, 2010 at 03:18 PM
Yesterday, Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch and Meris Lutz at the LA Times’s Babylon & Beyond blog both took a look... More
Diplomatic Cable Writing “A Bit Like Journalism”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 30, 2010 at 01:18 PM
Slate today has an Explainer addressing two basic questions raised by Cablegate: "What's a diplomatic cable? And why is the... More
Ugly American(isms)
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 29, 2010 at 05:10 PM
At The Guardian's Mind Your Language blog, David Marsh defends against a common reader complaint that "too many 'Americanisms'" appear... More
“Tense Scenes in Arab Newsrooms Right Now”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 29, 2010 at 04:33 PM
About those leaked cables that point to, as the New York Times puts it, “a largely silent front of Arab... More
Assigned to Review Palin’s Book?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 24, 2010 at 11:20 AM
At Slate, David Weigel reviews Sarah Palin's latest book, America By Heart, and, mid-review, offers this "how to" for others... More
“Months of Juicy Speculation” Ahead, You Say?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 17, 2010 at 03:45 PM
"Prince William and Kate Middleton sat down with advisers Wednesday to begin planning the royal wedding that some Britons have... More
Covering the Dems Big Donor “Huddle”
Only Politico showed up?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 17, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Last week, reports started appearing that a big group of deep-pocketed Democratic donors would be gathering this week in Washington,... More
Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Not Just About Alaska?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 15, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Sarah Palin's Alaska debuted on TLC last night and this morning one can read in any number of places how... More
“Snapshots of a Time Before War”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM
"I was greeted by snapshots when I first entered Iraq in 2003," writes the New York Times's Marc Santora at... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
