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Missing: 380 Tons of Ammo, Some Members of UN Security Council, and Talent
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 25, 2004 at 02:16 PM
Today the blogosphere is consumed by three developing stories, each involving something important (or not) that suddenly, um, isn't there.... More
Yo, Hannity, Your Curveball Is Hanging
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 21, 2004 at 03:34 PM
In case you were otherwise occupied last night (we certainly were), Fox News aired what Alan Colmes teased as co-host... More
Priceless Eyeballs
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 19, 2004 at 12:53 PM
For anyone who has never heard of ABC's online political newsletter, The Note, David Grann's New Yorker piece this week... More
Whither?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 16, 2004 at 01:41 PM
It was not so long ago that Campaign Desk was encouraged (for the most part) by the late but welcome... More
Elephant? What Elephant?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 15, 2004 at 04:38 PM
Today, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank offers up an "analysis" piece with the headline, "Bush's Cartoon of Kerry Failed to... More
Will the Real Richard Wolffe Please Step Forward?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 14, 2004 at 06:39 PM
"TV is about impressions." So said Newsweek's Richard Wolffe on CNN's "Larry King Live" last night. And in watching Wolffe's... More
Washington Post 3, New York Times 1
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 10, 2004 at 04:33 PM
Following Friday night's debate, Campaign Desk was struck by the stark differences between the "fact-checking" efforts of two major newspapers.... More
Didn’t Fly the First Time, Doesn’t Fly Now
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 8, 2004 at 01:48 PM
What's worse than your typical desperately speculative swing voter story? A recycled desperately speculative swing voter story. With so many... More
The Evolving Factcheck
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 7, 2004 at 02:50 PM
By Liz Cox Barrett and Thomas Lang On October 5, four years ago, in the hour following the vice presidential... More
98 Times (For the 98th Time …)
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 5, 2004 at 03:10 PM
Just when Campaign Desk was momentarily heartened by a flurry of fact-checking -- what a novel concept! -- by the... More
Mark’s Morning Message
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 4, 2004 at 01:59 PM
By Liz Cox Barrett Editor's note: For two days, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards' traveling press... More
The Care, Feeding, and Habitat of the Traveling Press
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 1, 2004 at 05:35 PM
Editor's note: For two days this week, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards' traveling press corps as... More
Where Is Johnny?
By Liz Cox Barrett Oct 1, 2004 at 01:42 PM
By Liz Cox Barrett Editor's note: For two days this week, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards'... More
The Dark Arts of Predictive Punditry
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 27, 2004 at 06:02 PM
At this late date in the election season, Campaign Desk is as weary as the next person of conflicting poll... More
Mike Jenner on His Editorial Outburst, The Press’ Focus on the Immediate Rather Than the Significant, and Fair and Balanced Listeners
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 24, 2004 at 05:17 PM
Mike Jenner Mike Jenner is the executive editor of The Bakersfield Californian. He joined the Californian in 1993 as... 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)
What was James Rosen thinking?
How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?
Cat Fall: A modern tragedy
Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging
“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”
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.
