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“Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich)”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 7, 2009 at 01:29 PM
Dana Milbank on Roland Burris's trip to the Senate. More
Where In The World Is Joe The Plumber?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 7, 2009 at 01:14 PM
On his way, apparently, to Israel "to report for the conservative Web site pjtv.com." Take it away, Jennifer Taylor of... More
Babo’s Bird and Baked Fries
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM
How should news organizations cover the Obama girls? Join that discussion in our ongoing news meeting. Meanwile, a taste of... More
Journalist, Fig Leaf
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 7, 2009 at 09:37 AM
From today's New York Times: [F]or an 11th day of Israel’s war in Gaza, the several hundred journalists here to... More
Paging…Surgeon General Gupta?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 6, 2009 at 02:04 PM
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta thisclose to accepting the job of Surgeon General, according to Howard Kurtz. Inspiring this reader comment:... More
“Most Used” Network Reporter of 2008
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 6, 2009 at 01:40 PM
If 2008 felt like The Year You Couldn't Escape Andrea Mitchell, that's in part because she was the year's "most... More
MSNBC Cringes For Making Itself Cringe
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 6, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Yesterday, I posted about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's negative insta-reaction on Morning Joe to their colleague's report about the... More
Perception (Pet-ception?) Analyzers
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 6, 2009 at 09:24 AM
My colleague Katia was no fan of CNN's debate night "perception analyzers." Perhaps she'd prefer the adaptation of the doodad... More
Tweet What?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 5, 2009 at 03:00 PM
Twitter accounts at CNN and Fox News were apparently hacked earlier today resulting in a couple of especially candid faux-Tweets... More
(Not) Getting Into Gaza
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Dion Nissenbaum, Jerusalem bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, reports that "the Israeli military has once again barred the first small... More
MSNBC Makes Itself Cringe
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 5, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Early this morning MSNBC's Tom Costello filed a report from outside the Sidwell Friends School, awaiting the Obamas. It was,... More
First Day Of School Reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM
From the AP's report on Sasha Obama's first day at Sidwell Friends school: Sasha carried a Trans by JanSport pink,... More
Photojournalists On Working Iraq
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 5, 2009 at 09:58 AM
From the Baghdad Bureau blog at the New York Times, part 1 of a http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/01/world/middleeast/20090101_iraq_photogjnl/index.html ">conversation between Stephen Farrell (a... More
Sign of the Times: A1 Ads
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 5, 2009 at 09:23 AM
From today's New York Times: In its latest concession to the worst revenue slide since the Depression, The New York... 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.
