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(Where To) Get Your Iran News
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 04:30 PM
Both The Nation's iran_s_twitter_revolution?rel=emailNation">Ari Berman and Politico's Ben Smith offer recommendations for where to get news (and commentary) about Iran.... More
Twitter Triumphalism? (“CNNFail” and All I Got Was This T-Shirt)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 02:57 PM
For just $17.99, you can be the proud (triumphant) owner of this #CNNFail ringer T. Probably you've heard of #CNNFail?... More
Kristof’s Elite Tweets
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 10:59 AM
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweacts to making The Twitter Elite (or Twitter's "suggested user list," on which the... More
Iran on Today’s Front Pages
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 09:34 AM
Well. Here's how the New York Post today plays the news from Iran. I'm guessing they're alone with that headline,... More
“Off-The-Record,” Explained Through Role Play…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 04:33 PM
... for the benefit of "angry bloggers," by Choire Sicha at The Awl. Bringing, er, total clarity to one of... More
Keller in Tehran: Admirable? Useful? “Creeping Meachamism?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 01:37 PM
The New York Times's executive editor, Bill Keller, is filing A-1 election-related reports from Tehran, a co-bylined "news analysis" today... More
FiveThirtyEight on Iran’s “Fishy” Election Results
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Working on a longer post about Iran election coverage, but for now here's FiveThirtyEight's Renard Sexton on the "fishy" election... More
Twitter’s Time Has (Now Officially) Come?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM
"Is Twitter no longer an ultra-hip refuge for the perpetually plugged-in?" wonders the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz today. How might... More
The NYT’s “Aged News”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 11, 2009 at 08:04 AM
Seeking, perhaps, a high-profile way to appear the "good sport," the New York Times granted The Daily Show a tour... More
“I Admire [Maureen Dowd’s] Writing But…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2009 at 04:16 PM
...not so much the stuff in today's column about President Bush. Fox News's Karl Rove on the New York Times's... More
On Michelle Obama’s Westminster Abbey Outfit
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2009 at 01:47 PM
From the (London) Times: While Mrs. Obama is "correct" to wear her bright colors "stacked," and the colors themselves are... More
What? You Expected Intelligent Discussion Roses?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM
I'm not sure why any of this is news (what Dave Letterman said about Gov. Sarah Palin; what Palin said... More
Covering Abortion
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM
At the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Eyal Press, who wrote a book on the 1998 murder of Dr.... More
Saberi’s Advice For Lee and Ling
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2009 at 09:58 AM
"Try to turn the challenges you are facing into opportunities...No one can hurt your soul," are among the bits of... More
Lede of the Day
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 9, 2009 at 04:08 PM
Via Reuters (h/t James Downie of Foreign Policy's Passport blog): A man who tore the wig off a telegenic Taiwan... 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.
