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The NYT Co.’s 411 Trademarks
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 04:26 PM
"Inspired" by the news that the New York Times Company, citing its trademark, had successfully convinced The Food Section blog... More
“To Be A Predator”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Wow. Even for local TV news. Just...wow. From Minnesota Public Radio's The Loophole blog: So, there was an attempted child... More
A “Postprint Writing Class”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 01:06 PM
Maybe the nineteen-year-old version of you fulfilled your science requirement by pass/failing "Rocks For Jocks." But, back then, as you... More
Can You Say Lede of The Day?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Try saying this lede -- from the Wall Street Journal's Digits blog today-- five times, fast, aloud: A heated, multimedia... More
New Guinea Tribesman Sues New Yorker
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 11:26 AM
The protagonist in Jared Diamond's 2008 New Yorker story, "Vengeance is Ours," is suing the magazine's publisher for $10 million,... More
Horn: Toot!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM
CJR's own Megan Garber has been named a finalist in the "Best Commentary, Digital" category for the third annual Mirror... More
Book, Cook by Twitter (But Don’t Solicit Interview Questions)
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2009 at 09:28 AM
Today in Twitter: Gary Trudeau, who Twitters as a cartoon Fox News reporter, slams journalists who use Twitter to "solicit... More
The Smiling Somali Pirate
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2009 at 03:56 PM
Linking to video of the Somali teenager accused of heading up the seizure of the Maersk Alabama arriving in New... More
NBC News’s Selective Pulitzer Reporting
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Questions we asked ourselves here in our news meeting earlier: Does television news -- the nightly newscasts, for example-- (still)... More
Make mine…Someone Else’s?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM
The first issue of mine, that free (conceived and sponsored by Lexus) choose-your-own-content (from assorted Time Inc. publications) magazine arrived... More
Prized Journalists
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 21, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Paul Giblin, one of a two-reporter team yesterday awarded a Pulitzer for local reporting for the East Valley Tribune (Mesa,... More
(Don’t) Follow Me!
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 04:36 PM
Meghan McCain kicks off a Daily Beast column complaining about all the "creepy" people following her on Twitter (like Karl... More
Magic Wall And All
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM
If you watch CNN, you know that since Obama's inauguration they've been trying to retain viewers with/heavily promoting (music! logo!)... More
‘Round The Water Cooler: Bono’s Column
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Assorted CJR writers ponder Bono's second New York Times column: 1) Finally, a home for all those stray lyrics that... More
“Waiting To Be Told Things…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 20, 2009 at 10:15 AM
...is what "the day of a typical White House correspondent consists [of], literally," writes Ana Marie Cox in a Washington... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
