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Sunday Morning: “Time Warp” or “Golden Age?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 09:31 AM
Writing for CJR last week Charles Kaiser declared "Sunday show punditry" "stuck in a hopeless time warp." Kaiser's focus was... More
Bo Knows
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Only a matter of time before Bo Obama "gets" that he's "famous" and starts acting vain and entitled like Stump... More
In Other Wednesday Protest News
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 16, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Had your fill of news footage of Wednesday's Tea Party protesters? Be sure to check out the nytimes.com video of... More
Remember When “Nuts” Were Naughty?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 16, 2009 at 09:25 AM
Remember a time not long ago when "nuts" were really, truly in the news -- as in, a reporter could... More
“Strategy Session” Meets “The Pleasant Little Dog Story”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2009 at 03:46 PM
Recall what Megan wrote earlier about Bo Obama's arrival and how it brought out the worst in cable news impulses,... More
“Is Media Jingoism Fanning Indo-Pak Tensions?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2009 at 03:08 PM
Indian and Pakistani journalists sat down in New Delhi today "for a session of unflinching self-scrutiny." (The headline to this... More
Journalism Online To The Rescue?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Behold: "a company that will quickly facilitate the ability of newspaper, magazine and online publishers to realize revenue from the... More
Today In “Spaghetti Ingenuity”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Yesterday, my colleague Megan bemoaned the glut of "wishful thinking-" type contributions to The Future of News Conversation, calling for... More
TMZ’s M.O. — and Bo
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Time.com has a piece about how TMZ, "the usually Hollywood-focused follower of celebrity gossip and scandal"-- not Politico or The... More
Almost Bo Time!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2009 at 04:44 PM
CNN is flooding the zone on the Bo Obama Story: as we count down to the dog's any-minute-now debut, a... More
HuffPo’s Citizen Journalists (Now More Journalist-y?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2009 at 02:53 PM
Reports Jeff Bercovici: The next batch of aspiring Mayhill Fowlers will have to behave a little more like journalists... As... More
Blame The Teleprompter? The Teleprompted?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2009 at 01:46 PM
Another chance to talk teleprompter! Of which MSNBC's Joe Scarborough availed himself on today's Morning Joe: (Cue clip of President... More
Read My Lips: No Purebred Puppies
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2009 at 12:30 PM
The AP asks: Is Bo a rescued dog or not? Did President Obama keep or break a campaign promise in... More
Maureen Dowd: Not Kidding
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM
A New York Times reader from Vermont used the "Talk to The Editor" feature at nytimes.com to ask the op-ed... More
Muzzling Media in Iraq?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2009 at 09:31 AM
Per the New York Times: The Iraqi military put local journalists on notice on Monday that their organizations could be... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
