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Somali U.N. Official Calls For “Truce”…”In Reporting”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 04:28 PM
"Why is a U.N. diplomat comparing Somali reporters to Rwandan war criminals?" asks Anna Husarska, a senior policy adviser at... More
“NY Post In Obama-Chimp-Stimulus-Racism Flap…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 01:02 PM
... right where the tabloid wants to be? For more on this "flap," see first here, and then here and,... More
Panhandle in Polk-Worthy Prose
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Gay Talese! You just won a George Polk Award for career achievement! What will you do next? Apparently, this. More
“Media Being All Over” Bristol
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Fox News squeezed a second night out of Greta Van Susteren's interview with 18-year-old Bristol Palin (mother of baby Tripp... More
Can’t Touch This
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Try as they might, U.S. tabloids and cable news folks just can't sex up a chimp attack quite like the... More
Talking Back To Headlines
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 10:04 AM
AP: "'Truth commission' could spark more partisanship" Me: Ya think? More
Is Your Blog Among Time’s “25 Best?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 18, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Talkingpointsmemo tops the list. Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish made the cut, as did Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a... More
You Had Us At Chimp Attack
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 17, 2009 at 04:42 PM
That chimp attack in Connecticut? Startling, upsetting story, to say the least. 200-pound pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Connecticut severely mauls... More
15 Most-Visited Newspaper Web Sites
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 17, 2009 at 02:07 PM
Neiman Journalism Lab tallied "the top 15 newspaper websites of 2008" by average monthly unique visitors (based on Nielsen Online... More
And Tomorrow’s Polks?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM
It's hard to read about all the outstanding journalism (investigative, international, local, labor, environmental, etc.) recognized by the George Polk... More
Bristol Palin More Comfortable On The Record Than Van Susteren
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Part 1 of Greta Van Susteren’s interview with Gov. Sarah Palin’s 18-year-old daughter, Bristol Palin (and family), aired last night... More
More on Dover Media Ban
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 17, 2009 at 08:58 AM
The Washington Post has a piece today on the Dover media ban, including a brief history of the policy and... More
Pelosi: “The Media Did Not Fairly Repesent Them”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 16, 2009 at 04:03 PM
From Salon's Q&A with Alexandra Pelosi (daughter of Nancy, director of Journeys With George) about her new documentary, "Right America:... More
TNR Surveys “The Carnage”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 16, 2009 at 02:26 PM
The current issue of The New Republic offers many ways (long and short, funny and less-so) to worry about journalism... More
Breaking: Luke Russert Has Not “Yet” Begun To Tweet
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 16, 2009 at 01:07 PM
Twitter may be "taking off among Washington journalists," but there are -- believe it or not -- still some reporters... 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.
