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On Bedstands At NYT’s Baghdad Bureau
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 18, 2009 at 10:50 AM
For anyone who ever wondered what New York Times war correspondents read in their spare time, Rod Nordland at the... More
Which Magazines Deserve[d] To Die?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 18, 2009 at 08:54 AM
"Badly motivated" magazines are dying off, Gabriel Sherman writes, meaning publications created to capture a sudden and temporary flurry of... More
Fallows’s Advice For “Young Interviewers”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 04:16 PM
"Interviewing Tips" from James Fallows: The "let the silence stretch out" approach...can be a surprisingly valuable interviewing technique. The truth... More
Isn’t She “Pretty” In Her “Big-And-Tall-Gal Wear?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 03:31 PM
New York magazine invited sixteen writers to, in a series of 350-ish-word pieces, ponder "the many meanings of a new... More
Two Dowds (And an O’Dowd) Walk Into a Bar
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 01:08 PM
Niall O'Dowd of Irish News spent "a few hours in the back of a midtown Manhattan restaurant with Maureen [Dowd]... More
And…It Wasn’t “Greta Cameras”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Last week, when news broke that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston had called off their engagement, the National Review's Kathryn... More
Fox & Friends On The Rhetoric Beat?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 09:59 AM
Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, sat for an interview recently with Der Speigel Online. The following exchange in that... More
Farewell From “A Gut-Punched Newsroom”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 17, 2009 at 08:53 AM
David McCumber, the managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, says so long and thanks in the paper's final print issue... More
Time For One More Cramer/Stewart Analysis?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 16, 2009 at 04:26 PM
On Friday, my colleague Ryan wrote up what was wrong with the insta-coverage of Cramer v. Stewart (Last Thursday Night's... More
“What Does That Mean, ‘Outrages Upon Human Dignity’?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 16, 2009 at 03:21 PM
Mark Danner, at The New York Review Of Books, finds answers (to the question in the above headline, posed by... More
Mocking A1…In Styles
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 16, 2009 at 11:07 AM
How do you know it might be time to revisit your Official Standards For Front-Page Story Placement? When readers complain... More
Seattle P-I Globe Speaks
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 16, 2009 at 10:15 AM
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's rooftop mascot pleads his case in an opinion column. (Can we all try to keep our cringing... More
“Keeping Abreast of Internet Chatter Not The Same As Bearing Witness”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 16, 2009 at 09:44 AM
The Internet (and, of course, Twitter) is changing (ruining? improving?) foreign reporting, observes Anand Giridharadas in the New York Times... More
The Break-Up Will Be Televised?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM
So. Bristol Palin and her fiance, Levi Johnston -- parents of infant Tripp -- have, reportedly, broken up. News which... More
Three Years For Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Thirty-year-old Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush back in December, has been sentenced... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
