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How local PA TV played Obama’s speech
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 19, 2008 at 03:29 PM
“The immediate, tawdry issue for the Obama campaign,” according to Joe Klein on Time’s Swampland blog directly after Obama’s Speech... More
The Bar for Barack
Media anticipation for a “make or break” speech
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 18, 2008 at 10:20 AM
As much as anyone, the media is eagerly anticipating Sen. Barack Obama’s Speech On Race this morning. How so? Where... More
Covering a Comeuppance
Swept away by sex, psychoanalysis and schadenfreude?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2008 at 02:03 PM
Unsurprisingly, SpitzerGate filled a bit of airtime on the Sunday talking head shows. On the Chris Matthews Show, specifically, the... More
Primary Night Rally (With Blitzer)
Obama wins and so does Wolf
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2008 at 10:09 AM
After winning yesterday's Democratic primary in Mississippi, Sen. Barack Obama last night appeared on television to thank his supporters. A... More
TNR’s Press Corps Class War
Plus: Courting the saucy, snazzy “MoDowd”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2008 at 04:47 PM
There are Two Americas in the Obama traveling press corps, according to The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber. And just like... More
Covering ‘Client 9’
Headlines and Heidi
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Looks like the New York tabloids did not take any of CJR's humble suggestions for Spitzer-related headlines, going instead with... More
Meet the Press? Pass.
Sunday and Substance
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM
What do you do if you're a freshman senator—first year on the job—and you very much want to be taken... More
CNN’s Old Hat Texas Coverage
Luckily, some local columnists don’t watch cable
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 5, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Jeannie Kever began her Houston Chronicle column yesterday - a column applauding the "US media" for avoiding the "Texas cowboy... More
Political Punditry: Kids’ Stuff?
ABC’s Child Pundits Not Childish Enough
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM
You know how The Daily Show sometimes gets young kids to read and reenact actual moments in cable punditry, to... More
Hold the Sauce
What McCain cooked up for the press
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 3, 2008 at 05:33 PM
Sen. John McCain, the candidate who typically speaks his “straight talk” on the record, urged reporters to tuck their notebooks... More
It’s The Man Show — on MSNBC!
Stick to your knitting, ladies
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 27, 2008 at 05:37 PM
Watching MSNBC this morning I was reminded of a cop-out line from one of Maureen Dowd's recent harshing-on-Hillary New York... More
Russert Bags “The Marlin”
The most Russert-centric debate to date?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 27, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Who won the debate? Who won the debate? That is, of course, the key question for so many in the... More
Stay “Classy,” Clinton
But not till after tonight’s debate, Live on MSNBC!
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2008 at 02:07 PM
Jonathan Alter, the Newsweek columnist and MSNBC political pundit, thinks Hillary Clinton should pack it in ("Hillary Should Get Out... More
Elephant in the Studio
Doris Kearns Goodwin on PlagiarismGate 2008
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2008 at 05:37 PM
Which of Tim Russert's expert roundtablers did he turn to first on yesterday's Meet the Press to discuss PlagiarismGate (the... More
A Sorry Situation
How do you contain a cable conflagration?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 21, 2008 at 09:02 AM
It was all too predictable, what happened after Cindy McCain on Tuesday riffed on Michelle Obama’s recent “proud of my... 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.
