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Debategate Is Clanging Already
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 23, 2004 at 01:27 PM
One week until Bush v. Kerry Round One, and the debates debate persists in the blogosphere this morning. "Dumb, Dumb,... More
“Security Moms” Are Everywhere!
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 22, 2004 at 07:36 PM
Swing voters and polls, while a far cry from cream-colored ponies and crisp apple streudels, are a few of lazy... More
On Deadline? Here’s Your Headline!
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 21, 2004 at 06:31 PM
What does it take to ensure that your sound bite gets past all those sophisticated hard-bitten scribes on the campaign... More
AP Chalks Up Another Contender
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 20, 2004 at 06:37 PM
As a Campaign Desk reader pointed out, something strange is afoot in today's Associated Press story by Pauline Jelinek. The... More
Left, Right, All Have Questions and Want Answers
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 20, 2004 at 01:08 PM
As November 2 draws ever closer, left-leaning bloggers are bottom-lining election 2004 -- pondering what the race boils down to... More
No Heavy Lifting Here Either
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2004 at 06:17 PM
The angle on this one is "hidden" because the reporter chose not to pursue it at all. Today, the Associated... More
Getting It Right in 300 Words
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 10, 2004 at 12:07 PM
This morning our palsied hands were momentarily steadied when a Campaign Desk reader (along with an Associated Press reporter with... More
More Hat Tips Tragically Cut Down in Their Adolescence
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 9, 2004 at 05:59 PM
Seems lately like every time Campaign Desk reaches upward to tip our hat, our fingers spasm and convulse just before... More
Spinners Spin Selves
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 7, 2004 at 04:03 PM
Campaign Desk has previously lamented cable shows whose ideas of "news" is to slap two campaign officials on air to... More
Frances and Clinton: This Is Campaign News?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 3, 2004 at 05:01 PM
Hurricanes and health scares rarely seem to produce journalism's finer moments (particularly so with broadcast journalism). Both are unpredictable, involve... More
Street Fight: Cardboard Fans at Twenty Paces
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2004 at 12:25 PM
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. And if freebies were viewers, CNN and MSNBC would ride a little higher,... More
Watching the BBC Watch “Arnie” and “Bushie”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2004 at 07:19 PM
What would a non-American reporter -- perhaps, a eurojourno -- make of last night's prime time Republican National Convention speakers,... More
Visiting the Gnomes of the Loyal Opposition
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2004 at 02:17 PM
If the number one wish of the propagandists laboring away in the Democratic National Committee's temporary New York "war room"... More
CNN: Where No Talking Point Goes Challenged
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2004 at 11:05 AM
Just in case Rudy Giuliani forgot to hit an RNC talking point or two last night during his prime time... More
Onward Marches Campaign Journalism
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 30, 2004 at 08:47 PM
The Blonde Babes for Bush (l to r, Amy Stephens, CindyMurphy, and Peggy Littleton) Any delegate gunning for air... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
