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Sandra Endo on Flirting Candidates, “Colorful” Bush Comments, and Convention-Week Massages
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 27, 2004 at 04:43 PM
Sandra Endo Sandra Endo covers local, state and national politics for NY1, where she has worked since 1998. Endo... More
Hidden Is The Word for This News, All Right
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 27, 2004 at 12:35 PM
This morning, yet more evidence of how Swift BoatGate has dominated mainstream media, and relegated serious election-year issues to the... More
Pretty Please, Just Once?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2004 at 03:58 PM
Yesterday, Campaign Desk offered a big-picture -- and rather damning, if we say so ourselves -- accounting of the press'... More
Bees, Rats and Dancing at Republicans
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2004 at 01:23 PM
The blogosphere continues to bubble with John on Jon reviews. Electablog's David Pell speaks for some unnamed group of people... More
By Turns Doubtful, Doleful, and Downright Defensive
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2004 at 02:07 PM
On Daily Kos, DemFromCT ponders how journalists will handle the new news about Abu Ghraib -- what with all the... More
“Who, Me? Naw, This Megaphone Is Just a Prop”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2004 at 10:41 AM
Campaign Desk had a good, gallows-humor-type chuckle when we saw this stunningly un-self-aware headline on Tom Raum's Associated Press piece... More
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 23, 2004 at 12:28 PM
For members of the mainstream press arriving at work in a Monday morning fog, a virtual "to-do" list awaits you... More
President Bush Nailed by Cheese Cops
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2004 at 03:48 PM
It all started yesterday, when CNN, Fox and The New York Times were content to transcribe and transmit President Bush's... More
CNN’s Cheesy Coverage
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2004 at 01:57 PM
Thanks to a Campaign Desk reader for flagging this stomach-turning CNN special. On yesterday's "Inside Politics," wedged between a segment... More
Hat Tip, Interrupted
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2004 at 04:27 PM
Last night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, to use Atrios' words, went "nuclear" on Matthew Dowd, a senior Bush-Cheney strategist and Hardball... More
It’s August, and the Dogs Are Eating the Dogs
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2004 at 04:15 PM
The traditional August lull in election-year ads is a thing of the past, writes Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press.... More
Renee Zellwegger - the New Ohio?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 16, 2004 at 04:34 PM
How many swing voter posts in one day is too many? We decide, you retort. Remember, back in the spring,... More
Oops, They Didn’t Do it Again
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2004 at 03:51 PM
Add today's story by Andy Lenderman of the Albuquerque Journal to the What Not to Do list. Lenderman reports that... More
He Said/She Said Rears His/Her Ugly Head - Yet Again
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2004 at 03:47 PM
As we've suggested more than once before, it is a dereliction of duty when journalists report a campaign claim and... More
The Common Man As Parrot
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2004 at 06:18 PM
For months now, Campaign Desk has watched as campaign talking points (or key lines from attack ads and campaign speeches)... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
