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Kenneth’s Response to the “Internet Hoo-Hah”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Jack McBrayer, the actor who plays 30 Rock's Kenneth The Page, the character to whom many bloggers compared Gov. Bobby... More
WaPo On The End of Big Pimpin’
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 03:56 PM
The Boston Globe recently brought us the story of people "Laid Off And Loving It." Today, the Washington Post introduces... More
Calderone Gets To The Bottom of “Oh God”-Gate
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 01:14 PM
Politico's Michael Calderone solves the mystery of "Oh God"-Gate -- that is, which MSNBC anchor's voice could be heard last... More
First Lady’s Arms Inspire Envy, Suspicion (And Fear?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Michelle Obama Goes Sleeveless, Again" is the annoyed-sounding headline on Jodi Kantor's post on The Caucus Blog at NYTimes.com, observing... More
“We Will Recover…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 09:55 AM
... is the phrase from President Obama's speech last night that seems to have grabbed headline writers at newspapers across... More
Cooper: “I Guess The Republicans, Then, Are 50 Cent?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Cut the deficit in half...."Restart the engine of our prosperity"... Health care reform... The question on many cable commentators lips... More
Stephanopoulos’s Twitter Misunderstanding
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 24, 2009 at 03:00 PM
"The bass not served w cannabis! 'Pot' short for potato!" read an urgent tweet minutes ago from ABC News's George... More
Take Our Pundits To Work Day
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs brought MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski (and Morning Joe viewers) on a "behind... More
Friedman’s Got Fallon’s Back (Strange Column Alert)
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Marketwatch's Jon Friedman regrets his harsh assessments back when of Katie Couric's first night anchoring The CBS Evening News and... More
NYT’s Incomplete Snark Review
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Yesterday, the New York Times reviewed David Denvy's book, Snark... minus the chapter (yes, chapter) taking down Times columnist Maureen... More
Column Advice For Paul Krugman
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM
In Ryan Lizza's New Yorker profile of Rahm Emanuel, the White House Chief of Staff and "political John McEnroe" offers... More
Does This Count As Early Childhood Education Reporting?
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM
I was about to type up a post observing that according to US News & World Report's "Washington Whispers," Chris... More
Fleischer to WH Press: Don’t “Act Like Fools On National TV”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer predicts White House reporters will "make themselves look bad if left to their... More
Reporter-Rodent
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 19, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Michael Miner was worried he'd have nothing to tell the young, aspiring journalists at an upcoming panel discussion. After talking... More
“Bait[ing]” Sasha Obama
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 19, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Having filed her official Washington Post column about her recent ride with fellow columnists (Bob Herbert, Ron Brownstein, E.J. Dionne,... 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.
