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Paris Hilton, Swing Voter?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 19, 2004 at 05:40 PM
Single women are this election's hot demographic, The Washington Post's Paul Farhi informed readers yesterday. Specifically, the "massive and largely... More
Bill Sammon on Querying the “Delegator-in-Chief,” Being a “Must-Call,” and Fielding His All-Reporter Dream Team
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 16, 2004 at 04:34 PM
Bill Sammon has been the White House correspondent for The Washington Times since 1998 and a political analyst for Fox... More
Off the Charts
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 14, 2004 at 01:06 PM
There has been much speculation in the media over whether the White House decides in advance of televised presidential press... More
Thumbsuckers Switch Thumbs
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 12, 2004 at 03:31 PM
While CNN and the Washington Post (among others) continue to focus on the veep-stakes -- and the latest odds for... More
Alexandra Marks On Dean’s Downfall, Reporting On Her Former Boss, and “Firing” Lieberman
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 9, 2004 at 05:29 PM
Alexandra Marks Alexandra Marks is a New York-based senior correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor where she has worked... More
Whole Lotta Tree-Shakin’ Going On?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 9, 2004 at 12:19 PM
While some are tired of fly-swatting, many sphere-dwellers are doing their best to exterminate the pests creating the post-Rice testimony... More
It’s Group Hug Time in the Blogosphere
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 8, 2004 at 11:11 AM
It's game day as National Security Adviser Condaleezza Rice goes to the mound against the lineup of the 9/11 Commission,... More
Say Kids, What Time is It?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2004 at 10:43 AM
In a headline reminiscent of the Howdy Doody Show theme song (feel free to sing along, now) Electablog's Dave Pell... More
You Talkin’ to Me?
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 6, 2004 at 11:10 AM
The President traveled to the Tar Heel State on Monday, accompanied by the usual press entourage. Polibloggers, as far as... More
Glover in No Hurry, Nagourney Moving Fast
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 5, 2004 at 05:53 PM
Remember the scene from the movie "Annie Hall" in which Woody Allen's psychiatrist asks him about the frequency of his... More
Waffles, Veepstakes and a Quiz
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 5, 2004 at 10:39 AM
Duck! It's bombs away in the blogosphere this morning, and the target is Google. It's dyspepsia payback time over at... More
Taking Us Behind the Scenes
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 2, 2004 at 02:53 PM
The Washington Post's David Finkel today has a fascinating behind-the-scenes-at-the-Bureau-of-Labor-Statistics article in which he describes the run-up to the release... More
Gaming the Media 101
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 1, 2004 at 04:46 PM
By Liz Cox Barrett Any political campaign advisor worth his six-figure paycheck knows how to game the media. For example,... More
AP’s Lazy Laundry List
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 31, 2004 at 05:28 PM
As Campaign Desk has pointed out (more than once), sometimes the press takes talking points from a political party or... More
The L.A. Times Discovers Mrs. Dickerson
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 30, 2004 at 05:36 PM
Newsflash from the Los Angeles Times: The longer a candidate is out on the campaign trail, the more proficient he... 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.
