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Carney, (R)evolved
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Jay Carney used to think, as he said last year on MSNBC, that Joe Biden is "incredibly prone to say... More
Is This “Healthful?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2009 at 09:25 AM
Yesterday, the New York Times Dining section ran a piece headlined, "Michelle Obama's Agenda Includes Healthful Eating." Which reminded me... More
Douthat To Fill Kristol’s NYT Op-Ed Slot
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Word has it that the Atlantic's Ross Douthat will be picking up where Bill Kristol left off at the New... More
Meghan McCain Sees You “Sit[ting] Around,” WH Press Corps
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 02:19 PM
On Hannity last night, Fox News's Sean Hannity aired "a little highlight reel" from Robert Gibbs' "first 50 days as... More
NYT Corrects Itself (102 Years, 11 Months On)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 01:49 PM
The New York Times published a correction today to an article from April 30, 1906. Apparently, an 84-year-old watch repairman,... More
Joan, The Teenage Socialist
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Salon's Joan Walsh (who "used to be a socialist, I think") is "honestly ambivalent" about whether the New York Times's... More
Where Was The NYT on Freeman?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Greg Sargent at The Plum Line asks why big news organizations, particularly the New York Times "didn't touch" the "Chas... More
First Lady On The Catwalk (Covered and Not)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2009 at 09:31 AM
The New Yorker this week http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2009-03-16">places Michelle Obama on a runway (cover illustration by Floc'h) smilingly showcasing assorted sherbet-colored fashions.... More
Credit The Airbrushers!
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2009 at 01:26 PM
The New York Times has a video op-ed in which a filmmaker named Jesse Epstein makes a case (and, really,... More
The More We Twitter…
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2009 at 12:11 PM
... the less we, probably, blog -- and comment directly on others' blogs, and, generally, muse in the blogosphere about... More
“Maybe Jon Stewart Can Tell Us What The Markets Are Going To Do”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Where to begin? So much to discuss about the discussion just after 7:30 this morning around the crowded Morning Joe... More
Buckley’s Good News
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 04:29 PM
"Tired of bad news," Christopher Buckley provides at The Daily Beast what the "universe will not:" "good news," in the... More
The Headline You’re Dealt
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 03:58 PM
Maybe I was distracted by something in Howard Kurtz's piece about how the Obama administration is reaching out to "minority... More
Still Fighting The Last Battle
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 01:05 PM
The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, who confesses that "early adoption isn't my thing," explains for the magazine's cover story why... More
The President Likes “The Feel Of A Newspaper”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM
"Are you a socialist?" may be the most-discussed of the questions the New York Times posed during its first formal... 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.
