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Novak’s “Empty Chair Approach”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 04:45 PM
When I hear "Robert Novak" and "empty chair," I think of that moment in 2005 when Novak cursed on-air on... More
Colleagues Remember Robert Novak
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 02:09 PM
Lynn Sweet on her Chicago Sun Times colleague (headline: "Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times Columnist, 'Prince of Darkness' died Tuesday"): Chicago... More
Just In: “What Will Happen With Michael Jackson’s Body”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM
CNN had the news first, at 11:17 AM: This just in to us here in the newsroom. Michael Jackson hasn't... More
Kostric On “Irresponsible Reporting,” “Hoplophobia”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM
From Part 1 of The Faster Times's Q&A with William Kostric, a.k.a, The Man Who Brought The Loaded Gun to... More
The Future of All The News That’s Fit to Print…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 09:48 AM
...will be crowdsourced? Shaped by an ongoing, online marketing survey? The New York Times Insight Lab wants you -- Times... More
“I Want To Know What You Think…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 08:26 AM
Deep thoughts from last night's Daily Show on those unavoidable cable news polls -- Are health care town halls making... More
Match the Ombud to the Offense!
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2009 at 04:15 PM
Three newspaper ombuds. Three recent columns. Below are excerpts from the work of the following reader representatives: Siobhan Butterworth of... More
Not Since Tucker Carlson…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2009 at 11:52 AM
... doffed his bow tie to compete* on ABC's Dancing With The Stars in 2006 (only to be declared "an... More
“Unemployed Copy Editors” to the Rescue?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM
On MSNBC this morning, I caught a bit of a discussion between Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and guest Pete... More
Who Could “Spring For” Clinton’s Africa Trip
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 17, 2009 at 09:44 AM
The New York Times' East Africa bureau chief, Jeffrey Gettleman, joined the traveling press accompanying Sec. of State Clinton around... More
Could You Be (Are You Being) “Coerced” Into Reading Time?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM
In response to (sigh, must we? really? apparently so) Sarah Palin's latest Facebook post on "death panels," (particularly the part... More
“We Have a [CNBC] Request For…Lots of Anger”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 13, 2009 at 10:08 AM
In case you haven't seen this, CNBC apparently spelled out/sought out what other cable channels have been merely courting for... More
Town Hall Highlight Reel Star Explains Herself on Hannity
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Here is Katy Abram explaining to Fox News's Sean Hannity last night how she was transformed from an unthinking Bill... More
Choose Your Own Interviewer on 60 Minutes?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2009 at 02:21 PM
An online commenter helps Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik distill his argument that having James Brown (a CBS Sports... More
Now You Can Impulse-Purchase The Economist…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2009 at 12:38 PM
... and have it in your hands the next day! Via The Guardian: The Economist has launched a single copy... 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.
