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Hoarse to Horse: Health Care Coverage “Storyline Shifted Last Week”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Per PEJ's News Coverage Index, "the debate over health care proved to be the No. 1 story" for the fifth... More
Found: Another “Calm,” “Respectful” Town Hall Questioner
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Yesterday, New York Times readers met Bob Collier, a man who did not yell while expressing at a recent town... More
Photo Quiz: Guess the Topic of This MSNBC Segment
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2009 at 03:09 PM
What is this? What was MSNBC reporting on here? Yes. This is an image of MSNBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman (playing... More
And Maureen Dowd’s Webinar Will Be On?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2009 at 01:40 PM
Per Nieman Lab: School’s in session at The New York Times this fall, and the professors include some big bylines... More
NYT Profiles Man Who Uses Indoor Voice at Health Care Town Hall
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Today, a (non-TV) news outlet profiles a "calm," "respectful questioner" from a health care town hall. (Not that yelling and... More
“Template For Future Newspaper” on Russia’s “Extremism List”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2009 at 10:03 AM
From the Moscow Times (via Passport blog): Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Winnie the Pooh share a dubious honor: Anyone... More
Hoyt: NYT Must Laugh With (Not At) Readers
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 01:53 PM
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt hears readers' complaints (including "fat hatred" and "class bias") stemming from that bitingly... More
Contest: Non-Newsiest News From Obama’s Vineyard Vacation
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 01:06 PM
The president goes on vacation; the press goes with him (some, literally). And so "news" will be filed. See a... More
Couric on Cankles
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM
In Katie Couric's "Notebook" today (which I was tricked into reading via a Twitter promo-link posted by Couric or Couric... More
Embeds: The Good, The Bad, and The Accurate
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM
From Charlie Reed of Stars and Stripes, reporters embedding with U.S. forces in Afghanistan are subject to a background profile... More
Filkins: “Afghan Girls Live Their Lives in Reverse”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM
From the New York Times Magazine "special issue" I mentioned below, a compelling piece by Dexter Filkins, "A School Bus... More
You Know It’s Late August When…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2009 at 04:37 PM
This Sunday's New York Times Magazine, a "special issue:" Saving The World's Women Actually, I've been looking forward to reading... More
Can We Hear From David Brooks on Michelle’s Shorts?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2009 at 01:57 PM
Knowing that today is a Maureen Dowd Day in the New York Times, I was hoping to learn What David... More
In Afghanistan: “We Are Going To Continue With Our Normal Reporting”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM
The AP on the Afghan Foreign Ministry's recent "demand" ("request?") that Afghan journalists "avoid 'broadcasting any incidence of violence' between... More
Please Be Kidding This Time, Daily Show
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2009 at 09:50 AM
I have seen MSNBC's cringe-making segment called No Way! during which Donny Deutsch and Tamron Hall discuss wacky, way-out news... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
