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A “Hit-Back”? How Can I Help?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 9, 2005 at 03:32 PM
Typically, reporters make some sort of effort -- transparent though it may be -- to conceal the fact that they're... More
Men - What Good Are They, Anyway?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 8, 2005 at 05:44 PM
Television news loves nothing more than a quick stop-'em-in-their-tracks report on the findings of some newly published -- often health-related... More
Bush In Clover - Or Is It Poison Ivy?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 3, 2005 at 07:34 PM
On the same day that the Associated Press ran a story declaring that "Bush Allies Say He's Lost His Way,"... More
Picking Presidential Pockets
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 2, 2005 at 01:46 PM
Remember back in April when the New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller shared with the world the fruits of her investigation... More
Verdun? Or Little Bighorn?
By Liz Cox Barrett Nov 1, 2005 at 05:32 PM
Yesterday, President Bush nominated Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to the Supreme Court -- after which, the Los Angeles Times'... More
Elizabeth Spiers on Book Deals, Blogger Firings, and Updating Her Judy Miller Halloween Costume
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 28, 2005 at 05:40 PM
Elizabeth Spiers Elizabeth Spiers, who is leaving her job as editor-in-chief of Mediabistro on November 1, is working on... More
Good Night and Good Luck, Harriet
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 27, 2005 at 12:42 PM
Texas may have been "blessed" with a Governor George W. Bush, but this country will never, we learned this morning,... More
With This Blog, I Thee Read
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 26, 2005 at 12:43 PM
Inspired by President Bush's charming and no doubt spontaneous mention of his 28th wedding anniversary in a speech at the... More
Important, If True
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 26, 2005 at 09:02 AM
Whenever we encounter Ron Fournier's byline, we know that more often than not we will be treated to some fortune-telling... More
We’re All in the “No-Spine Zone” Now
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 20, 2005 at 04:39 PM
From a media critic's perspective, what could be more promising -- Thursday Styles aside -- than television news personalities interviewing... More
Here’s an Idea: Wait for a Vote
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 19, 2005 at 04:46 PM
Yesterday, the White House handed out to reporters a Texans United for Life survey completed by Harriet Miers in 1989... More
Trend-Spotting Men, Leading Women, and (the End of?) the Roving Reporter
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 18, 2005 at 02:12 PM
Like doing math and selling magazines, capturing the zeitgeist is hard. But week in and week out, the newsweeklies must... More
Waaaah! Why Isn’t There a New York Times Styles Section Every Day of the Week?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2005 at 12:54 PM
For a journo-scold with daily deadlines, like ourself, the New York Times Thursday Styles section is truly a gift that... More
AP Still Wishing for 2008
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 13, 2005 at 10:45 AM
We thought the Associated Press was jumping the gun with its Scandinavian non-scoops about who might run for U.S. president... More
There’s Something About Northern Europe
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 12, 2005 at 11:41 AM
Why is it that U.S. politicians go to Scandinavia to tell (or to not tell) the Associated Press about their... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
