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Joe, Cool
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 16, 2008 at 09:29 AM
While "Joe" (as in, The Plumber) was a frequently-used word during last night's debate, "cool" is a frequently-used word in... More
Apples to Acorn
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2008 at 03:18 PM
Fox News may be ahead in quantity of Acorn-related coverage (between Saturday and today at 3:00pm, TVEyes shows 556 mentions... More
Intro to Campaign Reporting
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2008 at 10:51 AM
From the New York Times's scene from Hofstra University, host of tonight's presidential debate: In a class on nonverbal communication,... More
Joe McCain, Ex-Reporter, Wants To Talk
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Sen. John McCain's younger brother, a onetime reporter, wants the McCain campaign to re-open press access (to the candidate and... More
“Tone and Tactics” Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2008 at 09:26 AM
From PEJ's report on last week's campaign coverage: [T]he media narrative of the campaign focused on tone and tactics last... More
AP: What “Could” Happen at Debate
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 14, 2008 at 05:10 PM
From the AP's Liz Sidoti: Advisers for each candidate say he will use the final debate to lay out his... More
Wolf Blitzer, Mother’s Helper?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 14, 2008 at 03:29 PM
From The Daily Beast's "Dear Sarah" letter offering advice to Gov. Palin should she find herself D.C.-bound: When a busy... More
Tomorrow Night: The Third Presidential “Something”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 14, 2008 at 02:30 PM
Dan Rather talking presidential debates at the Time Warner Media/Politics conference today (h/t Michael Calderone): "First of all, these aren’t... More
Oh, There’s Been A Moratorium On That?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 02:06 PM
From the Washington Post's Dan Balz: But there ought not to be any moratorium on asking hard questions of both... More
Mr. Andrea Mitchell
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Megan recently explored the trouble with Andrea Mitchell reporting, as she does sometimes on MSNBC, on the current financial crisis... More
Column Pairs Well With Cheez-Its
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 11:10 AM
In high school, Maureen Dowd confides in her New York Times column yesterday, Dowd "translated swatches of Julius Caesar's 'The... More
The AP’s Exclusive With “Wasilla Heartthrob”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 09:59 AM
Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin's fiancé, "agreed to talk" to the Associated Press's Adam Goldman ("despite the presidential campaign's advice in... More
NYT: Ten Percent “Policy Substance”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2008 at 09:33 AM
Clark Hoyt on election coverage in the New York Times: Through Friday, of 270 news articles published in The Times... More
“Well, Have Ya Seen the Latest Cover of Newsweek?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Because "any woman who sees this cover," Republican media consultant Andrea Tantaros explained yesterday on Fox News, "will be shocked... More
It’s Not What They Say About You…
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM
...it's what they whisper. The Washington Times might endorse Barack Obama, "insiders" whisper to U.S. News & World Report. "Times... 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.
