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Hewitt vs Ware vs Stones Cry Out vs Wolcott
Bloggers discuss press performance in Iraq (and CNN’s panel discussion on press performance in Iraq) and anticipate the demise of (almost) all media.
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2006 at 01:23 PM
For the past two nights on "Anderson Cooper 360º," CNN's Cooper has convened a panel to discuss press performance in... More
Bush One, Loathsome Little Troll Zero? Or Not
Blogs weigh in on the relative success of President Bush’s press conference and the media’s distortions of the record of the Liberty University debate team.
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 22, 2006 at 02:35 PM
President Bush threw caution to the wind during yesterday's press conference and took a question from Hearst News columnist Helen... More
Freud, Wired Kids and Gawking at Gawker
Newsweek marks the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq with a cover story marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud, while Time makes a play for worried parents (again).
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 21, 2006 at 01:49 PM
This past Sunday marked the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Six weeks and four days from now marks... More
Another Day, Another Trashing of the Times
While bloggers take on every story in sight, the paper itself goes blog wild, debuting two new ones.
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 16, 2006 at 02:58 PM
Today is a day like every other in the blogosphere. That is to say: it's Trash the New York Times... More
Man in Maroon Suit, Orange Skin, Running for President?
Bloggers react to the Mark Warner New York Times Magazine cover photo, to the related Times “correction” and to the hang-ups of the reporter who wrote the accompanying profile.
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 15, 2006 at 12:57 PM
If you're a one-term governor pondering a run for president against a well-known senator with a colossal war chest and... More
The New Swing Voters - HBO-Watching Evangelicals?
The press asks the all-important question: Can a Mormon be elected president in an age when a TV series about polygamy follows “The Sopranos” in HBO’s Sunday lineup?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 15, 2006 at 09:04 AM
Bostonians are not to be blamed if they failed to read beyond the following lede in Tuesday's Boston Herald: "Mitt... More
Christina Asquith on Iraq’s “Golden Period” for Reporting
Asquith discusses the trials of freelancing in Iraq (which she did in 2003 and 2004) and her new book about the challenges of being a rookie teacher in a poor public school (which she was in 1999).
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 10, 2006 at 05:35 PM
Jack FairweatherChristina Asquith, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, has 10 years of experience as an investigative journalist covering education... More
A Newspaper Weighs All Views — and Then Punts
While editorial boards at newspapers of assorted sizes in assorted states went on record with a view of some sort on the high-profile doings of the South Dakota state government, the editorial page of South Dakota’s major newspaper sat it out — and offered a lame explanation for its silence.
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2006 at 03:33 PM
On Monday, the governor of South Dakota signed a bill banning all abortions except in cases where a woman's life... More
Flack Defrocks Press, Anoints … Blogs?
Articles in the New York Times and the New York Observer reveal: the MSM no longer has a monopoly on reprinting press releases from PR people … because there are blogs now.
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 9, 2006 at 11:40 AM
It must have stung a little, what Richard W. Edelman, president and chief executive of the public relations firm bearing... More
Press Exercised by Exercising White House
The press has taken on some hard-hitting stories this week, from the cleanliness of the president’s desk to Condi’s workout program.
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 1, 2006 at 05:01 PM
The beauty of mainstream journalists hopping on the blogging bandwagon -- if there is beauty to be had -- is... More
‘Fed Watchers’ Feed Reporters Something Like News
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson Jr. resigned Wednesday. So, what does it all mean? That depends on which news source you’re reading or watching.
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 24, 2006 at 10:22 AM
Roger W. Ferguson Jr., the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, resigned Wednesday. So, what does it all mean?... More
Market Survey: Business Executives Prefer Cosmo
When it comes to inane career advice, it’s a buyer’s market this week.
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 22, 2006 at 12:35 PM
When it comes to inane career advice, it's a buyer's market. You can't crack (or click on) a business publication... More
Dan Steinberg on Covering Curling, and How to Spot American Reporters in Turin
The Washington Post ‘s Olympics blogger chats about the convivial atmosphere at the Games’ Media Center, the questionable importance of curling, and his Cheese Lovers Newsletter.
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 17, 2006 at 05:00 PM
Courtesy Washington Post Dan Steinberg is blogging about the 2006 Winter Games for the WashingtonPost.com. Steinberg described the blog,... More
All Cheney All the Time
We set out to write a Blog Report free of any mentions of the Cheney Hunting Incident. Alas, the blogosphere refused to play along.
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 16, 2006 at 01:44 PM
Our aim was true. We set out to write a Blog Report free of any mentions of the Cheney Hunting... More
Hunting for Blame (And a Place to Pee)
Forget about Harry Whittington’s assorted injuries - bloggers want talk about the enormous purple shiner the MSM is allegedly sporting.
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 15, 2006 at 02:06 PM
Forget about Harry Whittington's assorted injuries, let's talk about the enormous purple shiner the MSM is sporting! It's "another black... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
