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Dow Low, Sugar High
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 01:54 PM
Last week, the New York Times reported that "Whoopie Pies Are Having Their Moment," that the "cake-like sandwiches" have "finally... More
Klein: “Get Pissed At… Media Culture”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 01:06 PM
At Time's Swampland blog, Joe Klein offers some media criticism (er, "media culture" criticism): A certain newsmagazine--hint: not this one--has... More
Tonight: Will Obama Sell The Bank Plan? Make Gaffes? Get Ratings?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 12:24 PM
"Some in Washington [are] wondering whether the president is becoming overexposed," writes the New York Times's Peter Baker (emphasis mine)... More
Morning Blago
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Tomorrow morning, from 7 to 9am, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will be guest-hosting "The Don Wade & Roma Morning... More
Word Association
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2009 at 02:29 PM
If I told you that the word "flaccid" appeared yesterday on the New York Times op-ed page under one of... More
Another O’Reilly “Ambush”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2009 at 01:54 PM
"My O'Reilly Ambush," made The Daily Show, your "O'Reilly Ambush..." has its own Facebook page... More
NYT on Spontaneous Story Combustion
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2009 at 01:01 PM
I'm going to paraphrase my keen colleague, Brent: In the New York Times "Week in Review" there was an article... More
Getting To Know Douthat
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2009 at 09:56 AM
New York magazine has a one-page backgrounder on the New York Times's newest op-ed page hire, Ross Douthat (part bio,... More
Hoyt: Still Too Many Anonymous Sources in NYT
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2009 at 09:14 AM
Public Editor Clark Hoyt in yesterday's New York Times: With my assistant, Michael McElroy, I took another look at the... More
Twitter Is The New Beatles
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 19, 2009 at 11:55 AM
"Twitter-Mania Sweeps The Nation," reported NBC News's Jamie Gangel on this morning's Today Show, during which Gangel dropped all the... More
Flawed Reporting On “PCP, Klansmen, Child Molesters and Terrorists”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 19, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Jack Shafer pokes holes in a recent Washington Post piece about "'scary drug'" PCP "mak[ing] a comeback," concluding: The press... More
Michelle Under The Microscope
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM
One thing I think we need more of (fingers crossed) is reporters analyzing What Michelle Obama Is Wearing And What... More
Riding Herd
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 18, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Dana Milbank reports that moments ago in the halls of the Rayburn House Office Building a scrum of reporters mistook... More
Gibson: Sports Journalism “So Difficult”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 18, 2009 at 12:40 PM
From the (New York) Daily News: ABC's World News anchor Charles Gibson at one point considered being a sports reporter.... More
mine Can Be Yours (For Free)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 18, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Per the AP, Time Inc.: is experimenting with a customized magazine that combines reader-selected sections from eight publications [Time, Sports... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
