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Bureau of One
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 13, 2008 at 08:51 AM
The New York Times reports on CNN's plan to do more with less by assigning "one-man bands" to assorted U.S.... More
Last Week’s Campaign News: 31% Substance!*
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 13, 2008 at 08:25 AM
According to the new PEJ study of campaign news coverage, "policy debates accounted for about 31% of the campaign newshole... More
Pressing Pigeon
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2008 at 03:46 PM
If you're a "former close friend to [John] Edwards’ mistress" with something[s] to say about The Edwards Story, TV news... More
Meanwhile, In PA…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2008 at 12:03 PM
John McCain is this much closer to checking off that must-have presidential photo-op: Candidate in Camo (doing something mannishly outdoorsy).... More
Bring a Reporter to Work Day?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2008 at 09:38 AM
The Associated Press sent two different reporters to examine from two different angles the presidential candidates' offices and tell us... More
Inside Barack Obama
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2008 at 08:46 AM
Obama Vacation News from the (Honolulu) Star Bulletin: Unlike previous days when [Barack Obama] spent a lot of time outdoors,... More
“Very Little Real News?” We’re In!
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Bill Schneider, a CNN political analyst, confessed just now during a report previewing the Democratic National Convention: There will be... More
“Bad Reasons” To Cover (And Not Cover) Edwards Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Time's TV blogger James Poniewozik spends "more time to come to fewer conclusions than any blog post I have ever... More
Preview: CNN’s DNC Convention Costume!
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Reporting in Texas on that state's March primary, CNN's Ali Velshi was on horseback in a ten gallon hat (authentic... More
Dateline Honolulu
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2008 at 09:55 AM
I suppose these types of stories can be written just as well from outside the Beltway (way, way out), writing... More
TPM on The Page On Election “Insight”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2008 at 09:01 AM
If you like your "election insight in some sort of dingbat aphorisms," have a look at this post from The... More
Edwards, Enquirer, Self-Examination…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2008 at 08:12 AM
Politico's Michael Calderone explains "why I also didn't write on John Edwards:" It was decided that writing on the rumors... More
Frequent Liar* Miles?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 7, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Paul Farhi reports that the McCain campaign is offering incentives (points! prizes!) to people for spreading campaign rhetoric online (a.k.a.,... More
Kurtz Lets Us In On a Little Secret
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM
"The media can make anyone sound mysterious and unknowable," writes Howard Kurtz in today's Washington Post, and then tries to... More
Candidate or Caped Crusader?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 7, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Can you tell a lot about a presidential candidate by which superhero he says he would be? Entertainment Weekly (Ew.com)... 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.
