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It’s Not About You, NYT
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2010 at 01:03 PM
The kicker to the New York Times's obit yesterday for the renowned "narcissism expert," James F. Masterson: Dr. Masterson became... More
A King in the White House?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2010 at 11:01 AM
"Is Larry King's CNN Reign Nearing Its End?" wonders Tom Shales in today's Washington Post, noting that Larry King Live's... More
Great National Reporters Thinking Alike
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Via Twitter, CNN political producer Peter Hamby shares these nuggets about a conference call this morning with reporters, Marco Rubio... More
Chthonic, Guttate, and Tennis, To Name a Few
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM
What are "Words That David Foster Wallace Circled in His American Heritage Dictionary," Alex? Slate publishes a complete list of... More
What Networks Didn’t Mention About WV Mining Disaster
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 15, 2010 at 09:50 AM
Andrew Tyndall noticed something about the nightly newscasts' (ABC, CBS, NBC) coverage of the recent disaster at Upper Big Branch... More
All About Bob: A Beat Sweetener
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2010 at 03:45 PM
You may know Robert F. ("Bob") Bauer as Gregory Craig’s successor as White House counsel. But, really, who is Bob... More
Bumper Music Gunfire
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 13, 2010 at 01:58 PM
From the AP: As many as a dozen Mogadishu-based radio stations stopped playing music on Tuesday after the insurgent group... More
Cover Your Access
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 13, 2010 at 09:31 AM
The Washington Post today has a front-page piece about White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, speculating that Gibbs might --... More
“Experiment and Fail Quickly”…
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 12, 2010 at 09:42 AM
... is "our mantra this year," says one newspaper news executive, according to a new PEJ survey of newspaper and... More
“Dumbest Tiger Woods Stories” Number 11!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Yes, Salon's "10 Dumbest Tiger Woods Stories" list could no doubt be four times as long, but I'll limit myself... More
“Surreptitious Reporting”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2010 at 09:43 AM
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof reports from Zimbabwe (where's the "know-it-all's bias"?): In a week of surreptitious reporting here... More
Know-It-All’s Bias
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2010 at 09:32 AM
Over at The Atlantic, Lane Wallace ("author, pilot, and entrepreneur" ) describes how she came to realize that sometimes reporters... More
“Which Is Presented as an Essay By [Levi] Johnston…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 3, 2009 at 10:43 AM
The Anchorage Daily News reports today on Levi Johnston's Vanity Fair piece, and goes out on a limb to suggest... More
Farewell, Kind Uncle Charlie
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 3, 2009 at 09:50 AM
Charles Gibson, in a word? LA Times: ... the abrupt end of the Bob Woodruff-Elizabeth Vargas pairing that led the... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
