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Another Chicago Musical
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 10, 2008 at 02:52 PM
From a scene from Blagojevich! The Musical by Ben Greenman. (You may remember Greenman from such hits as Palin! The... More
Three Chances To Vote For Chris Matthews (Today!)
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 10, 2008 at 01:39 PM
Media Matters is asking readers to vote on "What was the Most Inane Punditry of the 2008 presidential campaign?" Three... More
NYT’s ClintonSenateSeatStakes “Corrective Article”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 10, 2008 at 01:17 PM
The trouble with reporting, as the New York Times did yesterday, "Kennedy Is Said To Be Politicking For His Niece"?... More
Shafer: Get A Gimmick, Gregory (And No More Noonan)
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 10, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Advice for David Gregory on how to approach his new job, from Jack Shafer at Slate: Get rid of the... More
From House Gym to Big House?
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Well, there was nothing about Blagojevich's behavior on the Congressional Stairmaster way back when that foreshadowed all this, according to... More
Blagojevich’s Home State Headlines
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM
A selection of front pages from Illinois this morning: More
“Grace” Under (Very Little) Pressure
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 9, 2008 at 04:16 PM
Remember the "McCain Ends Classy" theme that sprung up in the media in the minutes and hours after McCain delivered... More
10 of Time’s “Top 10 of Everything in 2008”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 9, 2008 at 10:06 AM
List season's here. Time presents the "Top Ten of Everything in 2008." And by "Everything," Time means 50 things. Here... More
During And After The Pentagon’s “Mask Ban”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 9, 2008 at 09:34 AM
News: ""Iraq translators' mask ban dropped" (BBC: "The Pentagon has rescinded a controversial decision that banned Iraqi interpreters working for... More
“The Press Is The Enemy…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 9, 2008 at 09:24 AM
"...write that on the blackboard 100 times." Nixon, heard on the most recently-released batch of audio tapes from 1972 (h/t... More
You Think I’d Lay Down And Die?
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 9, 2008 at 08:54 AM
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97750125">Per NPR: Even a paper the size of The New York Times isn't immune. Bill Keller, the Times' executive... More
Consider Yourself Warned
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 8, 2008 at 02:27 PM
The New York Times's Katharine Q. Seeyle previews Inauguration Day (including a hint of what she'll be up to): Much... More
Tribune Files For Bankruptcy
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 8, 2008 at 02:04 PM
"It is only the latest -- and biggest-- sign of duress for the newspaper industry yet," says the New York... More
Who’s (Re)Counting? You!
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 8, 2008 at 12:47 PM
While you're waiting: The (Minneapolis) StarTribune.com lets you view contested ballots from the Norm Coleman v. Al Franken Senate race... More
“Producing Something Resembling News”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 8, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Howard Kurtz attempts to distill What Meet The Press Is For: At the heart of these programs is the questioning... 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.
