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Keeps on Givhan
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM
For anyone awaiting Washington Post poli-fashion columnist Robin Givhan's verdict on Michelle Obama's red-on-black Election Night dress, Givhan concludes that... More
Is It 2pm Yet?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 10, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Can this White House meeting between President Bush and President-Elect Obama happen already? MSNBC, for one, is in real danger... More
Images From “The Bullet Sponge”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 10, 2008 at 09:13 AM
While this front-page New York Times piece ("Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda In Many Countries") is understandably getting... More
“Pent-Up Political Ambition” (Run!)
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 6, 2008 at 10:03 AM
CabinetStakes, Horror Film Edition. As reported by the Boston Globe, the speculation that John Kerry might join President-Elect Obama's Cabinet... More
Legacy Report
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 6, 2008 at 09:51 AM
With the election out of the way, let the Bush administration legacy reporting begin in earnest! From the Associated Press... More
Holy Holograms!
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 6, 2008 at 09:08 AM
"CNN essentially doubled its audience from the 2004 Election night," drawing 12.3 million viewers Tuesday night. But, of the 65... More
McCain Ends “Classy”
Now that the campaign is over, can John McCain be noble again?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 6, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Remember back in September, when Time's Joe Klein, in a post titled, "Apology Not Accepted," blogged: Back in 2000, after... More
“No Column Today”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 5, 2008 at 03:06 PM
Instead, in Le Monde, this. In part: The first worldwide good news since the fall of the Berlin Wall in... More
An Offer We Can’t Refuse?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 5, 2008 at 02:12 PM
Yesterday morning after voting in Wasilla, Gov. Palin expressed a desire "to help improve" journalism because of her "great respect"... More
Comedy Central: Yes, We Can
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 5, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Among urgent post-election concerns, Politico explores, "Can The Daily Show Survive Barack Obama?" With Obama’s victory, the country was... More
CabinetStakes!
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 5, 2008 at 11:24 AM
This just in on MSNBC: Republican Richard Lugar does not want to be secretary of state... Come again? Was he... More
“Awesome,” “A Freshening,” “No Difference”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 5, 2008 at 10:46 AM
BBC has collected official reactions of assorted world leaders (spokespeople, associates, etc.) to Barack Obama's victory, including Pres. Bush's, "What... More
Barack In Banner
A sampling of today’s front pages
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 5, 2008 at 09:37 AM
Below, a selection of today's front pages: More
Now? “The Hard Part”
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 5, 2008 at 08:26 AM
"Analysis: For Obama, now comes the hard part," Associated Press "For Obama, now comes the hart part," CBS News "No... More
Relative Reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 4, 2008 at 04:46 PM
The Times of London reports on how Barack Obama's half-brother, Abongo Obama, and other relatives in Kenya are preparing for... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
