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Clinton’s “Nothing Job”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2009 at 11:05 AM
From today's New York Post: HILL HATH A FURY OVER NOTHING JOB While Bill Cavorts in Vegas Secretary of State... More
“Scores of” Reporters Arriving In Afghanistan; 2 From AP Injured
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2009 at 10:09 AM
While "casualties among reporters have been relatively unusual in recent months in Afghanistan," per the New York Times, two AP... More
In Other News from “The Rape Capital of the World”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 04:18 PM
Congo. You may know it as, most recently, that place where Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said (when asked "What... More
President: We Won’t “Pull the Plug On Grandma”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 01:43 PM
Best? Most eye-catching-est? chyron thus far during the president's health care town hall in Portsmouth, NH, on MSNBC just now:... More
You Had A Bad (Hair) Day, Tabloids Edition
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Megan noted earlier Andrea Mitchell's take on "what insiders are saying" about Sec. of State Clinton's annoyed "I'm the Secretary... More
No, ABC News, This Isn’t “The Way to Reform Health Care”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM
ABC News's constructive contribution to health care reportage this morning on Good Morning America, above the unintentionally(?) maddening chyron "THE... More
Media: You’ve Got Kurtz’s Go-Ahead to Pronounce Palin “Wrong”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 04:13 PM
From Howard Kurtz's Q&A today at washingtonpost.com: Portland, Ore.: Is there a point when the media should simply say a... More
About Today’s NYT A-1 Trend Story…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 02:17 PM
... the one about how "people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging... More
Message Received? Advertisers (and Air Force) Turn to Twitter
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Today in Twitter news: The New York Times Bits blog http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/tweeting-for-dollars/?scp=1&sq=twitter%20izea&st=cse ">reports on one marketing company's introduction of "'Sponsored Tweets,'... More
“The New Equivalent of a Full-Page Newspaper Ad?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 09:48 AM
According to Nieman Lab (citing the following specifics from an LA Times profile of Hollywood gossip blogger Perez Hilton), it... More
CNN Grade Grubs
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Still recovering from coverage of Obama's First 100 Days? Brace yourself. It's time for the media to assess Obama's Second... More
Not All “Media Workers” Can Do That
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 6, 2009 at 09:17 AM
Time Out New York's Matt Schneiderman suggests five lines of work unemployed journalists might pursue -- publicist, editorial strategist, project... More
That “Stirring Scene” on the Burbank Tarmac…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2009 at 04:51 PM
...No, not this one, you Beltway rube: This one: Per the New York Times's Adam Nagourney: It was a stirring... More
Not Everything “Happening Now” is News
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2009 at 04:09 PM
Via County Fair: (Though President Obama might want to keep this in mind when he heads off to the Vineyard... More
The Puppetry of the President
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2009 at 02:12 PM
From a particularly animated bit of President Obama's speech in Elkhart, Indiana earlier today (emphasis mine): ...energy and innovation, health... 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?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
