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Keller “Celebrates” Iran Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2009 at 04:54 PM
Iran is the subject of this week's nytimes.com Q&A, "Talk to the Newsroom" (so far, it's just Bill Keller, recently... More
Cable, Torn
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2009 at 03:28 PM
Which to carry live: Rev. Al Sharpton and Michael Jackson's father holding a news conference about Jackson's funeral arrangements; Or,... More
Rutten: Jackson Coverage Bad
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2009 at 01:10 PM
Just because "America's serious news media -- whether print, broadcast or cable -- are in the grip of a collective... More
A “News Blackout” in Honduras
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2009 at 12:38 PM
From Reporters Without Borders, on the situation in Honduras: President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster was followed by a curfew during which... More
How To Get (Re)Booked On Cable
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Chris Cillizza's contribution to YouTube's Reporters' Center is a video he calls "How To Not Sound Like An Idiot on... More
The NYT’s Sports Icon/Daddy Beat
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM
On June 13th, with golf's U.S. Open approaching, the New York Times's Karen Crouse reported that golf star Tiger Woods... More
Yesterday in Inter-Media (Intra-Media?) Name-Calling
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2009 at 09:52 AM
Have you heard? After some heated exchanges between The Washington Post's Dana Milbank and The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney during... More
Collaborative News Gathering, Embraced
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 29, 2009 at 09:10 AM
The New York Times's Brian Stelter on reporting from and about Iran: [M]any mainstream media sources, which have in the... More
More Op-Charts, Please
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM
There's something about getting straight data --presented on a pretend clip-board, in the middle of an opinion page-- that I... More
“First Line of Surveillance of All The News…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2009 at 09:52 AM
... is how Josh Marshall described the role of TalkingPointsMemo.com's readers on last night's Colbert Report. (From Colbert's intro: "Here's... More
Twitter Karma
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2009 at 08:31 AM
Beware, Jack Shafer ("Doubting Twitter. Let's not get carried away about its role in Iran's demonstrations"). When you speak ill... More
Who Remains To Report In Iran
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2009 at 02:34 PM
From the New York Times: After the visas of most visiting journalists expire [including, today, NPR's correspondent and the Times's... More
NYT’s “Coy” Iran Coverage?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2009 at 12:58 PM
From Time's James Poniewozik, via Twitter: Is it just me or does nytimes #iranelection coverage seem strangely coy? As if... More
President Harms Fly; TV News Harms America
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2009 at 09:40 AM
CNBC's John Harwood had a sit-down with President Obama yesterday during which they discussed.... during which the president addressed... um,... More
CNN’s “Unverified Material”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2009 at 09:10 AM
A segment from last night's Daily Show mocking a new on-screen ID that's popped up on CNN during reports on... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
