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“If Michael Jackson Hadn’t Died…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2009 at 03:52 PM
In an online Q&A, Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth explains what might have been this summer for "The Craigslist... More
Advice for Diane Sawyer
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Advice for Diane Sawyer for her inaugural outing, reportedly to take place in January, as the new anchor of ABC's... More
Ling and Lee on Their Detention in N. Korea
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee write, for the first time, about their reporting, capture, and detention in... More
“Free-For-All Internet Media Culture” is a Euphemism For…
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2009 at 09:50 AM
..., apparently, the Washington press corps. The New York Times's Peter Baker today writes about the rumored "nuptials that never... More
Today’s Number 1 and Number 2 Headlines…
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2009 at 04:46 PM
... thematically, anyway. From the Wall Street Journal: "In Paris, Behavior Brigade Battles to Make Oui-Oui a Non-Non" And, from... More
Breaking: Bernie Madoff’s Beach House Has (Ew!) “Formica Countertops”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Reporters have been given a video walk-through of Bernie Madoff's Montauk, New York beach house. And? Not so impressed. This... More
DePaul U. Delivers On McSweeney’s “Internet-Age Writing Syllabus?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM
At McSweeney's back in April, Robert Lanham unveiled his "Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview" for (wink, wink) "ENG 371WR:... More
“The Strangulation of the Sri Lankan Press”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM
From a profile of Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, written for The (UK) Independent by a "special correspondent," "a Sri... More
Blame Reporters, Bloggers And Readers…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 04:21 PM
Yesterday, Washington Post ombud Andrew Alexander wrote about readers' requests for "more explanatory journalism" on health care reform (and less... More
Sri Lankan Journalist Found Guilty of “Creat[ing] Communal Disharmony”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Via AP: A Sri Lankan reporter singled out by President Barack Obama as an example of persecuted journalists around the... More
NYT Mag’s $400K Story: A Cost Breakdown
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Clara Jeffery at Mother Jones got the New York Times Magazine's editor, Gerald Marzorati, to break down, via email, the... More
“A First Television Job on Today Is” Like…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 11:04 AM
President Bush's daughter, Jenna (Bush) Hager, has been hired as a "special correspondent" for NBC's Today show (my money would... More
Chris Wallace, Cheney Groupie?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 31, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Andrew Sullivan's take on Chris Wallace's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday on Fox News Sunday: Now look:... More
Dowd’s (Kinda Hollow) Who Are You
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Today, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asks, of people who write nasty things anonymously online, "Who are these people... More
NYT’s “Arab Press Roundup”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM
The New York Times online has an interesting, if brief, roundup of "discussions inside the Arab world, as played out... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
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?”
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.
