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David Brancaccio on Self-Serving TV News, Jon Stewart Comparisons, and Being a Bill Moyers Pod Person
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 3, 2004 at 04:44 PM
David Brancaccio (Courtesy "NOW") David Brancaccio joined PBS's weekly newsmagazine, "NOW," in the fall of 2003 and will take... More
Modems, Beers and Bathrooms
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 2, 2004 at 03:36 PM
Today, yet another member of the mainstream media waxes colorful on that vexing question, how to regard bloggers and the... More
Triumphalism Here, Triumphalism There, Triumphalism Everywhere
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 1, 2004 at 02:01 PM
For a man who anchors a network newscast -- which, any blogger will remind you, is a dying breed --... More
The (Self-)Importance of Being a Blogger
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 29, 2004 at 02:57 PM
Broadcast journalism is the bee in several bloggers' bonnets of late. Pandagon's Jesse Taylor, provoked by a viewing of yesterday's... More
380 Tons of Explosives? What 380 Tons of Explosives?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 22, 2004 at 05:34 PM
We've discussed before the tendency of the political press during campaigns to slavishly take its cues from the candidates --... More
Beating a Live Horse
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 17, 2004 at 04:51 PM
Two stories on the New York Times' front page today compel us to once again beat that undead horse, the... More
Elephants? We (Still) Don’t See No Elephants
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 16, 2004 at 05:22 PM
Today, the Boston Globe's Peter S. Canellos, in his weekly "National Perspective" analysis, muses about John Kerry's future, noting that... More
Trivial Pursuits
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 16, 2004 at 03:34 PM
Part five of a series evaluating the media's performance during the 2004 campaign. By Liz Cox Barrett Time and again... More
Election Over, Anonymice Scamper Back Onto Page One
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 12, 2004 at 03:17 PM
Nine months ago, the New York Times reaffirmed its commitment to cutting down on anonymous sourcing. All election season long,... More
Supply and Demand
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 11, 2004 at 03:14 PM
Election or no election, we shall always have reporters on deadline and in need of a quick dial-a-quote, just as... More
Some Wonder Who “Some” Is
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 5, 2004 at 05:11 PM
"Relaxed" is how more than one reporter described President Bush's bearing during his news conference yesterday. Unfortunately, with the frenetic... More
Kerry and Bush: A Couple of Wild and Crazy Guys!
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 1, 2004 at 01:17 PM
With one day to go, both campaigns are hustling to portray their candidate as a cocksure prize fighter on the... More
Adam Nagourney on False Equivalence, Spin Beyond Spin Rooms, and Fake Online Diaries
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 29, 2004 at 02:53 PM
Adam Nagourney Adam Nagourney has been chief national political reporter at the New York Times for the past two... More
True Colors Shining Through
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 28, 2004 at 12:54 PM
At least two blue bloggers are seeing red this morning. While Mathew Gross swears "on [his] honor" not to draw... More
When Reporters Transcribe
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 27, 2004 at 05:40 PM
At first glance, Bill Adair and Adam C. Smith's article in today's St. Petersburg Times -- headlined, "When Candidates Attack"... 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)
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.
