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A Police Chase Not Covered Live On Cable…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM
... but Twittered-- with siren! -- by Drudge. Dateline, Little Valley, NY: The driver of a horse and buggy led... More
From One “Ultimate Thinking Person” to Another
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Newsweek's Jon Meacham (a.k.a, "The Utimate Thinking Person") has, for the first time in the magazine's history, brought on a... More
Talking Tiananmen “Tank Man”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 10:11 AM
At Lens, the New York Times's photo blog, four photojournalists recall covering Tiananmen Square in June 1989 (h/t, NiemanLab). Fearing... More
What Your Own Cable Channel’s For
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Any guesses as to which NBC show has been referenced more often over the past 24 hours on MSNBC (if... More
Squirrelly Fox
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 01:49 PM
If you had to guess on which cable news channel this morning I learned of the story about, in the... More
More Thoughts On Saving Newspapers…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 01:36 PM
...from the former and current editors of Vanity Fair. (And, coincidentally, both accounts involve London's The Daily Telegraph!) Tina Brown,... More
Today In CBS News: Ustream, PU
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Per the New York Times: Seeking a younger audience more accustomed to watching the news on the Internet than on... More
You Say So-TO-mae-ohr…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 10:09 AM
I post the below Daily Show clip from last night for the footage of various TV news anchors and pundits... More
“The World’s Most Important Network”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Below, a compilation of news stories from 1987, when CNN moved its Atlanta headquarters from a red brick, white-columned "former... More
Your Shoe Leather Is Safe In Riyadh
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 04:45 PM
Time's White House correspondent (and onetime CJR employee), Michael Scherer, shares the official U.S. State Department "instructions" for reporters... More
Well, Maureen Dowd’s “On Vacation…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 03:35 PM
...so in her absence it fell to someone else at the New York Times to call President Obama out for... More
“Case Study of How the Echo Chamber of Washington Works…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 02:21 PM
...NPR's description of Jeffrey Rosen's infamous "The Case Against Sotomayor" TNR article "blog entry" (h/t, Glenn Greenwald). Rosen won't be... More
What Obama White House “Feels Like”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 01:43 PM
A reader's question from today's chat with Ana Marie Cox and Tucker Carlson at washingtonpost.com: Q: Ana, you see this... More
A “Long Shot Effort” by Star Ledger “Refugees”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 08:44 AM
In today's New York Times, David Carr writes up NewJerseyNewsroom, ex-Star Ledger reporters' "effort at creating an alternative source of... More
Is CNN “Fading?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 08:36 AM
CNN's prime time ratings are down, observes Politico's Michael Calderone. Some "staffers" are concerned. [Wh]ile being “nonpartisan” is something most... 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.
