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Headline News From Lauer’s Obama Interview
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 2, 2009 at 02:08 PM
What news was made during Matt Lauer's Super Bowl Sunday interview with President Obama on NBC? What's the headline? Depends,... More
Groundhog Tweets
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 2, 2009 at 09:48 AM
Looks like Gen. Beauregard Lee has finally found a way to get out from under Punxsutawney Phil's shadow: "Georgia groundhog... More
“Thank God The Newspaper Exists…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 2, 2009 at 09:23 AM
...said Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Novaya Gazeta, "an independent newspaper that has established itself as one of the... More
Nightline’s Future (Per “People With Knowledge Of Meetings”)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM
The New York Times today reports: "ABC Said To Consider 'Kimmel' in 'Nightline' Slot," (that is, moving comedian Jimmy Kimmel's... More
Joan Walsh “Could Never Be” Dick Armey’s Wife (So There!)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 29, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Chris Matthews sort of lost (or failed to take) control of Hardball last night . What happened? During a loud... More
End Of (Book) World?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 29, 2009 at 09:24 AM
After February 15, the Washington Post will no longer publish Book World, its stand-alone print book review section. Books coverage,... More
Bow Reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2009 at 04:56 PM
Do you know this Lego woman? Look familiar, at all? The LA Times explains. SF Weekly offers additional images. The... More
Andrea, Anecdotally
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2009 at 01:19 PM
Anecdotal evidence gathered mostly via IM by The (New York) Observer suggests that... some of the Observer reporters' gay friends... More
By Blago Interview #14, What’s Left To Ask?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2009 at 11:11 AM
What's left to ask when you're conducting the 17th 14th (of 17, total*) interview with Gov. Blagojevich in 48 hours... More
Did Blago Make “Self-Condemning News” On Maddow’s Show?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, directly after her interview with Gov. Blagojevich last night, wondered on-air: Did he just confess to me... More
Calling All “Enlightened Philanthropists…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2009 at 09:45 AM
On today's New York Times op-ed page, David Swensen and Michael Schmidt (an investment officer and a financial analyst, respectively,... More
“The Epidemic That Wasn’t” (Even If We Said It Was)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 03:54 PM
Maybe you're old enough to remember the media coverage of "crack babies" back in the '80s and '90s? Allow the... More
“Dream” Deferred?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 03:24 PM
Earlier this hour, the following weather-related headline appeared on the NBC News Washington Web site: Moments after I took that... More
Want To Be “Envelop[ed] in a Multimedia Web of [Rick] Warren’s Message”?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Then you'll want to pay the $30 subscription fee Reader's Digest is charging for Pastor Rick Warren's new quarterly magazine,... More
Franklin: “By Watching [The Inauguration] On TV, I’d Missed It”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I recommend (after a colleague recommended it to me) reading Nancy Franklin's "On Television" column in the current New Yorker... 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.
