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Today on the Frugality Beat
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2009 at 03:43 PM
Last month, the New York Times told us about people who don't really have to penny-pinch but choose to spend... More
Do You Work For A “Magazine?” (How To Tell)
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2009 at 02:34 PM
Folio's Tony Silber lists the following "six key properties for what a magazine is," quoting Bob Sacks, a "publishing consultant"... More
Somalia? Sri Lanka? “Good Luck” Finding Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett May 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM
"Two recent situations show us exactly what the world will be like when there are no regular foreign correspondents left,"... More
“The Big Story Starting Off The Week…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2009 at 03:03 PM
... says Josh Marshall (or was it Maureen Dowd's friend?): Robert Draper's GQ piece. Draper contributes all kinds of memorable... More
Carr on “What’s Going to Happen To” NYT
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2009 at 12:10 PM
In a nutshell: the New York Times's David Carr doesn't know. The Times "probably" has "the wherewithal to operate into... More
You Know Your Profession Is Doomed When…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2009 at 12:03 PM
..."just three of the 16 graduating seniors who were on the [Harvard] Crimson executive board in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are seeking... More
A “CNN For Harlem”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Joseph Hayden explains to the New York Times what helped motivate him to start Still Here Harlem Productions, a news... More
Disappearing Ombuds
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2009 at 09:59 AM
Per the Washington Post's ombudsman, Andy Alexander, "at least 14 U.S. news ombudsmen have lost their jobs since the beginning... More
Took The Words Right Out Of…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2009 at 09:42 AM
The New York Times's Maureen Dowd didn't intend to include in her column* yesterday, unattributed, a passage written by TPM's... More
Tucson Citizen: “This Is It”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 18, 2009 at 09:23 AM
The Tucson Citizen's Jennifer Boice writes the 138-year-old paper's (probable) "epitaph:" About 65 talented Citizen staffers are being shot into... More
But We Won’t Do That
By Liz Cox Barrett May 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Newspapers and the AP are patting themselves on the back for passing on interviews with Elizabeth Edwards (who is, in... More
How Much Would You Pay to be a HuffPo Intern?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Just last week, we asked readers: "Given everything that we know about unpaid internships, is this practice fair now? Was... More
Supreme Reporting
By Liz Cox Barrett May 13, 2009 at 04:31 PM
A super-illuminating SupremeStakes report from the Washington Post: President Obama told senators at a White House meeting today that he... More
Aspiring Reporters Find Voice at Homeless Shelter
By Liz Cox Barrett May 13, 2009 at 03:18 PM
Through the South Florida Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists, 25 college journalists from five Florida schools recently "took... More
Couric “Annoys” Traveling Press
By Liz Cox Barrett May 13, 2009 at 01:21 PM
Katie Couric, with her Flip cam, used her interview skills on some of the other members of the traveling press... 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?
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?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
