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Taxicab Confessions: Dowd & Brooks
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 09:28 AM
Some days, one finds a screenplay or some Latin text beneath Maureen Dowd's byline on the New York Times op-ed... More
Shafer Praises the NYT’s “Anti-Kristof”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM
At Slate, Jack Shafer writes "In Praise of Jeffrey Gettleman," the East African bureau chief for the New York Times.... More
Gray Day (No, Not The Economy!)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Looks like Zariff, President Obama's barber, had a recent press avail to address the urgent matter of All The President's... More
Are All (Crushes On) First Ladies Alike?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 04:53 PM
As Megan just noted, CNN's Jack Cafferty has written a column confessing to being "smitten" with Michelle Obama. I can't... More
Movie Star! (Misery)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 12:51 PM
"Matt Damon Moved by Plight of Zimbabwean Refugees," the AP reports today (proving once again that a humanitarian crisis in... More
Suck-Ups, Hook-Ups
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 11:34 AM
In a piece titled "How media sucks up to White House," Politico's Michael Calderone writes about the recent flurry of... More
On The Shoulders of a “Has-Been*”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 10:14 AM
In an TVNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/male_to_the_chief_where_are_tvs_women_chief_white_house_correspondents_109869.asp">article pointing out that currently "all the major TV nets and cablers - ABC, CBS, NBC/MSNBC, CNN,... More
Fox & Friends Spreads Herpes-Beer Pong Hoax
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2009 at 09:31 AM
Perhaps you watched your friends at Fox & Friends a few weeks ago playing beer pong above the chyron: "Practice... More
“Politico Is Reporting…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 3, 2009 at 04:33 PM
Did I hear that phrase once or twice during today's White House press briefing? (Maybe, "Would a White House reporter... More
ABC News’s “Idiot[ic,]” “Train Wreck” of a Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 3, 2009 at 03:49 PM
Read the ABC News article that Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum calls a "train wreck" (and the author of which... More
To Tweet or Not To Tweet
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 3, 2009 at 01:03 PM
Joe Klein, over at Time's Swampland blog, confesses to being "existentially stressed." Because of Twitter. Because, Klein writes, "I'm not... More
Should Journalists Name “Zombie Banks?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM
An interesting exchange on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning between Joe Scarborough, the Financial Times's Chrystia Freeland and The New... More
Remembered
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 2, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Paul Harvey, who died Saturday at age 90, had been delivering his "News and Comment" nationally for ABC Radio Networks... More
Mothers of Fallen Soldiers Discuss Dover Media Ban
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2009 at 10:42 AM
While the Obama administration continues, presumably, to review the policy banning the media from photographing the flag-draped coffins of fallen... More
“It’s Exhilarating To Be Fired At Age 86…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM
... is how Liz Smith winds down her final New York Post column today. "It's emasculating" to be fired, Smith... 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?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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.
