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The NYT Co.’s 411 Trademarks
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 04:26 PM
"Inspired" by the news that the New York Times Company, citing its trademark, had successfully convinced The Food Section blog... More
“To Be A Predator”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Wow. Even for local TV news. Just...wow. From Minnesota Public Radio's The Loophole blog: So, there was an attempted child... More
A “Postprint Writing Class”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 01:06 PM
Maybe the nineteen-year-old version of you fulfilled your science requirement by pass/failing "Rocks For Jocks." But, back then, as you... More
Can You Say Lede of The Day?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Try saying this lede -- from the Wall Street Journal's Digits blog today-- five times, fast, aloud: A heated, multimedia... More
New Guinea Tribesman Sues New Yorker
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 11:26 AM
The protagonist in Jared Diamond's 2008 New Yorker story, "Vengeance is Ours," is suing the magazine's publisher for $10 million,... More
Horn: Toot!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM
CJR's own Megan Garber has been named a finalist in the "Best Commentary, Digital" category for the third annual Mirror... More
Book, Cook by Twitter (But Don’t Solicit Interview Questions)
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 09:28 AM
Today in Twitter: Gary Trudeau, who Twitters as a cartoon Fox News reporter, slams journalists who use Twitter to "solicit... More
The Smiling Somali Pirate
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2009 at 03:56 PM
Linking to video of the Somali teenager accused of heading up the seizure of the Maersk Alabama arriving in New... More
NBC News’s Selective Pulitzer Reporting
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Questions we asked ourselves here in our news meeting earlier: Does television news -- the nightly newscasts, for example-- (still)... More
Make mine…Someone Else’s?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM
The first issue of mine, that free (conceived and sponsored by Lexus) choose-your-own-content (from assorted Time Inc. publications) magazine arrived... More
Prized Journalists
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Paul Giblin, one of a two-reporter team yesterday awarded a Pulitzer for local reporting for the East Valley Tribune (Mesa,... More
(Don’t) Follow Me!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 04:36 PM
Meghan McCain kicks off a Daily Beast column complaining about all the "creepy" people following her on Twitter (like Karl... More
Magic Wall And All
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM
If you watch CNN, you know that since Obama's inauguration they've been trying to retain viewers with/heavily promoting (music! logo!)... More
‘Round The Water Cooler: Bono’s Column
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Assorted CJR writers ponder Bono's second New York Times column: 1) Finally, a home for all those stray lyrics that... More
“Waiting To Be Told Things…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 10:15 AM
...is what "the day of a typical White House correspondent consists [of], literally," writes Ana Marie Cox in a Washington... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
