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Quizzical
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 10, 2008 at 03:15 PM
What else? What more can we do with LipStickOnAPigGate? Talk about it. Have dueling surrogates on our channel to talk... More
If I Were Charlie Gibson (List of Lists)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 10, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Here is a (surely incomplete) list of Lists of Questions ABC News's Charlie Gibson Should Ask Gov. Sarah Palin (this... More
Fox and Pig
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 10, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Which cable channel has totally pigged out on (it's puns aplenty with this one) LipstickOnAPig-Gate so far? A quick TVEyes... More
“Catnip to the News Media”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 10, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Barack Obama just addressed LipstickOnAPig-Gate, calling it "catnip to the news media" (wrong animal, sir!) and lamenting that "the news... More
The Balls on the Bus
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 10, 2008 at 10:15 AM
If a reporter from McCain's traveling press corps gave a reporter from Obama's press bus one of her cojones, they'd... More
LipstickOnAPig-Gate
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 10, 2008 at 09:29 AM
That there would be a campaign kerfuffle/scuffle about pork at some point during election 2008 is not surprising. That it... More
Obama’s”Working Class” Support (On Press Bus?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 10, 2008 at 08:40 AM
Journalists striking that "proletarian pose" might embrace Matt Taibbi's description of Obama's traveling press corps (if not the effect Taibbi... More
Mayor Palin and The Press
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 9, 2008 at 03:38 PM
Something I learned from Newsweek's Sarah Palin ("Palintology") cover story: As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin "imposed a gag order to... More
If We Can’t Have Palin…
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 9, 2008 at 03:18 PM
We'll take the woman who beat her in the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant, Maryline Blackburn, who, in an interview on... More
Is This Seventh Grade?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 9, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Yes, it is. On MSNBC this morning: MSNBC's CONTESSA BREWER: What we saw was the crowd not only filling the... More
The Impotence of the Fact Check?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Hearing Gov. Sarah Palin again saying "Thanks, but no thanks" (the applause line of the McCain-Palin campaign's truth-challenged Bridge to... More
PEJ on Press on Palin: “Feverish”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 9, 2008 at 10:51 AM
Per PEJ: "For the week of Sept. 1-7, Palin was a significant or dominant factor in 60% of the campaign... More
Advice for Gibson: “Think of Your Children”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 9, 2008 at 09:43 AM
ABCNews.com is asking what Charles Gibson should ask Gov. Sarah Palin during The First Palin Interview later this week. Along... More
Expert(s) Embrace(d)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 9, 2008 at 08:40 AM
Hair stylists. Handwriting experts. An astrologer. Body language experts. Feng Shui experts. Some embarrassing, prepubescent-looking guy who wrote a book...... More
What “Feeling” Do You Get From Palin’s Hair?
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 8, 2008 at 04:23 PM
Two thoughts on Booth Moore's (the LA Times' Fashion Critic) take today on "Sarah Palin's Style:" 1) Maybe it's parody?... 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.
