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We Expected More Elephants
NYT delivers
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 9, 2008 at 01:37 PM
And today's Elephant in the Room award goes to The New York Times' Patrick Healy and Michael Cooper for the... More
Misty II
Cable considers Clinton
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 8, 2008 at 11:27 AM
You may have missed Hillary Clinton's flash of emotion yesterday, so brief was it. But you certainly can't miss the... More
Russert Becomes Invisible to Himself
The elephant is still in the room
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Since when does Tim Russert (or anyone like him) decline an opportunity to talk about himself? It happened this morning... More
The Best Political Team On TV…
…Is in the “spin room” before debate even starts
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 12, 2007 at 03:24 PM
Here's CNN's Candy Crowley, moments before this afternoon's Republican presidential debate, struggling to explain why, after debates, she and her... More
America, Will You Accept This Rose?
AP fantasizes about the “Bachelor President”
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 12, 2007 at 12:35 PM
In an Associated Press article headlined, “Bloomberg: A Bachelor President?” reporter Sara Kugler writes: “For all of his billions, Mayor... More
Conduct Unbecoming…
A female presidential candidate (named Clinton)
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 4, 2007 at 02:38 PM
Remember what happened to the presidential aspirant the press decided was The Angry Candidate four years ago? Surely, seasoned campaign... More
The War that Keeps On Giving
On Fox News, at least
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 28, 2007 at 05:00 PM
With the Thanksgiving Travel Delay Story come and gone - along with its sister story, the one that comes with... More
It’s Sunday, Do I Have to Meet the Press?
1995 called and it wants its Beltway bloviators back
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 27, 2007 at 09:42 AM
"The race for the White House through the eyes of Carville, Matalin, Murphy and Shrum..." would have been more than... More
No Mo
Maureen Dowd is not necessary
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 21, 2007 at 08:54 AM
Many reporters have already pondered the question: Is America ready for a female president? But let's not put the cart... More
The Audacity
White House hopes, WaPo reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 19, 2007 at 04:20 PM
Fewer than 365 days until the next presidential election. For candidates, it's go-time/ crunch-time/ choose-your-own-platitude-time. For a lame-duck president, lest... More
And They Call Fred Thompson Lazy?
Reporters don’t even raise their own eyebrows these days
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 13, 2007 at 03:38 PM
Today, The New York Times’ Patrick Healy brings us a story about Something Bill Clinton Said and how it, like... More
CNN Plays Vegas
The Don King-ification of a Democratic Presidential Debate
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 13, 2007 at 11:33 AM
A plea to campaign reporters: please resist the temptation to use Sin City-centric clichés in your coverage of Thursday's Democratic... More
Has The Mighty Fallen Yet?
Chris Matthews’ “Slick” Hillary Watch
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 7, 2007 at 03:53 PM
Three Sundays ago, Chris Matthews, of NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, asked one of his journalist/panelists the following: When does... More
Being Michael Bloomberg
Newsweek knows the mayor better than he knows himself
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 6, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Newsweek's Jon Meacham stretched New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg out on the couch for a lengthy profile for this... More
Clinton: Gleeful or Glum?
LAT Turns NYT’s Frowns Upside Down
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 31, 2007 at 01:03 PM
Call it one of those were these reporters watching the same debate? moments. According to The New York Times' account... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
