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No Coverage, Not “So Startling?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 03:17 PM
"[President Bush] was aware that his top aides met in the White House basement to micromanage the application of waterboarding... More
Us Versus Us
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 02:56 PM
Writers vs. editors! (Michael Kinsley describes that "Battle For the Ages). Print reporters vs. TV reporters! (Charles Gasparino on how... More
Not to Nitpick, But…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 01:35 PM
A List, for people who like that sort of thing: TV Week's annual ranking of the "10 Most Powerful People... More
MSNBC’s BitterGate Update
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Keeping cable viewers current on the latest exchange in the Campaign Gaffe of the Week is hard work. From the... More
Should The Press Report…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 09:38 AM
Via Michael Calderone, in the wake of recent Spitzer (and Paterson) news, Crain's New York Business polled New York voters... More
“W(h)ither the Cable Blowhard?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2008 at 08:37 AM
The most memorable moment in Mark Leibovich's New York Times magazine cover piece on Chris Matthews -- in which we... More
You Read Us! You Really Read Us!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 01:59 PM
Know how Us Weekly sometimes runs pictures of famous people - and they’re candid photos, of course - studying the... More
If You Don’t Cut That Hair…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 01:14 PM
Wondering what it takes to break into CNN? It may be a hair thing. U.S. News reports that former CNN... More
WaPo, NYT Liveblogging “Petraeuspalooza”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Both The Washington Post (military beat reporter and author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Tom Ricks) and... More
Voting Clinton? But Mooooom!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 09:20 AM
Mom. C'mon, Mom. Please? Vote for Obama. Okay? Mom? You're voting for Obama, right? Why do you hate hope? Mooooom!... More
Obama on “100-Years-War Calumny”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 08:50 AM
Obama defended (dialed-back? clarified?) his McCain's for a 100-years-war statement on the Today Show this morning (hat tip, Michael Calderone):... More
High School Newsical
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2008 at 08:17 AM
Says Amanda, the bespectacled copy editor for Cyprus Bay High School's "award-winning" newspaper, The Circuit, and star of MTV's upcoming... More
Previewing (Coverage of) Petraeus Hearing
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2008 at 02:55 PM
The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman previews the inevitable politicization of Army Gen. David H. Petraeus' and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker's... More
Foreign Policy Chops? “First Lady Puffery?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Genius! Rather than having a Clinton surrogate and an Obama surrogate duke it out over Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience... More
Report: Barry Bearak Released
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM
IC Publications is reporting that both the New York Times' Barry Bearak (who was arrested in Zimbabwe last Thursday, initially... 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?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
