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Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad, Press Coverage Really Bad
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2004 at 12:19 PM
All happy political animals are alike, but each unhappy political animal is unhappy in its own way. Today, the Political... More
Reporters: Asset, or Achilles’ Heel?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 17, 2004 at 05:47 PM
Campaign Desk has commented more than once on the increasingly stale media debate: Teresa Heinz Kerry, asset or Achilles' heel?... More
What We Would Do If We Were You
By Liz Cox Barrett May 17, 2004 at 11:46 AM
Advice may be more agreeable in the mouth (or, in this case, on the keyboard) than in the ear, but... More
Fear and Gnawing in Palm Beach
By Liz Cox Barrett May 7, 2004 at 02:12 PM
On Monday, Campaign Desk pointed to stories by the Associated Press's Ron Fournier and The New York Times' Adam Nagourney,... More
Gerhart On (And Behind) The Scene
By Liz Cox Barrett May 6, 2004 at 02:57 PM
Yesterday, Campaign Desk applauded a few reporters' passing efforts to shed light on the behind-the-scenes machinations that produce compliant, cheering... More
Covering Crowd Control
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2004 at 05:15 PM
One staple in from-the-campaign-trail stories is a passing description of the welcoming, applause-ready crowds gathered to hear candidates' stump speeches.... More
Reply Hazy, Try Again … Again … Again …
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2004 at 11:16 AM
This week has magazine scribes raising sweeping questions and relying on a range of sources to supply a range of... More
Reporters, Like Bees and Dogs, Can Smell Fear
By Liz Cox Barrett May 3, 2004 at 03:45 PM
Democrats are afraid. We know ... because the Associated Press's Ron Fournier told us so on Friday, in a "newsview"... More
The Story Behind the Stereotype Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 29, 2004 at 04:16 PM
By Liz Cox Barrett On Monday The Washington Post introduced readers to one Britton Stein of Sugar Land, Texas, in... More
You Wear What You Are
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 27, 2004 at 02:37 PM
In reporting on Sen. John Kerry's appearance in Wheeling, West Virginia yesterday, The Charleston Daily Mail's Josh Hafenbrack briefly touched... More
Whose Economy?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 26, 2004 at 04:32 PM
In today's USA Today Susan Page takes a look at how the economy might factor into this year's presidential election.... More
Reporters Stampeded by Alligator
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 23, 2004 at 05:12 PM
On Tuesday, Sen. John Kerry spoke on several environmental issues in Tampa, Florida, and took questions -- one of which... More
In Hot Pursuit of … Folly
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2004 at 02:35 PM
Yesterday we reported on a four alarm veepstakes flare-up. Today, The Boston Globe's Patrick Healy does his best to keep... More
Reporters Track … Mystery Reporter
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2004 at 03:24 PM
Sen. John Edwards' appearance with Sen. John Kerry at a Florida "pool party" last evening stoked the veepstakes flames anew.... More
Why, Yes, I Think I Will
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2004 at 02:39 PM
Campaign Desk recognizes that listening to the same campaign speech 103 times a month might get a bit stale for... 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.
