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White House Press Briefings “Like Little British Tea Parties”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 9, 2009 at 02:28 PM
Yesterday, "author and journalist" Liz Trotta had this exchange with Fox News Live's Eric Shawn (discussion topic: "How Has D.C.... More
Sullivan: Newspaper Web Sites Should Go Dark For a Week
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 9, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Earlier, I linked to Steve Brill's "secret" memo to the New York Times urging them to start charging online readers.... More
Sully v. Sully v. Octuplets’ Mom
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM
As far as network morning news show viewers know, there is but one story in the news today. According to... More
Brill To NYT: You Are Not Fungible
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 9, 2009 at 09:57 AM
Someone emailed to Romenesko a "confidential memo" written by Steve Brill late last year urging the New York Times to... More
Newsweekly No More
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 9, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Jon Meacham, Newsweek's editor, describes the thinking behind the magazine's planned makeover: "There’s a phrase in the culture, ‘we need... More
Tweets of the Rich(ish) and Famous(like)
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 5, 2009 at 02:06 PM
I guess A-List Hollywood has not yet caught the Twitter bug. How else to explain the appearance of CNN's Rick... More
Have Reporters Gone “Pong Slayer” On The Stimulus Bill?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 5, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Whose In Defense of The Stimulus Bill, Which Republicans Have Given A Bad Name-themed op-ed today do you prefer: E.J.... More
Even Walter Isaacson…
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM
"...has quit subscribing to the New York Times, because if it doesn't see fit to charge for its content, I'd... More
President, “Spotlight Hog?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 4, 2009 at 01:40 PM
This morning, MSNBC asked (via chyron), whether President Obama is "Losing His Luster?" And if so, CNN -- via its... More
Presidential Interview “Lightening Rounds”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 4, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Of the five TV interviews President Obama sat for yesterday, two involved, toward the end, what the anchors described as... More
AP: “The Audacity of Acknowledging Poor Judgment”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 4, 2009 at 09:37 AM
The AP finds a similar refrain throughout President Obama's five TV interviews yesterday. Regarding his handling of the Daschle nomination:... More
Its, The Economy Stoopid
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 3, 2009 at 04:32 PM
Reports MSNBC: [W]hile blunders and bloopers have ever exasperated the spelling snobs and grammar grunions of the world, our recent... More
Daschle “Read NYT,” “Called The President”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 3, 2009 at 11:30 AM
On MSNBC earlier this afternoon, Andrea Mitchell described her phone call with Tom Daschle today and how he came to... More
Iraqi Newspapers: Elections (And Egyptian Actresses)
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 3, 2009 at 10:38 AM
The New York Times's Baghdad Blog surveys Iraqi newspaper coverage of the provincial elections. While official election results are not... More
Career Change?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 3, 2009 at 09:36 AM
From today's New York Times: An unusual number of journalists from prominent, mainstream organizations started new government jobs in January,... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
