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Clinton’s “Nothing Job”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2009 at 11:05 AM
From today's New York Post: HILL HATH A FURY OVER NOTHING JOB While Bill Cavorts in Vegas Secretary of State... More
“Scores of” Reporters Arriving In Afghanistan; 2 From AP Injured
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 12, 2009 at 10:09 AM
While "casualties among reporters have been relatively unusual in recent months in Afghanistan," per the New York Times, two AP... More
In Other News from “The Rape Capital of the World”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 04:18 PM
Congo. You may know it as, most recently, that place where Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said (when asked "What... More
President: We Won’t “Pull the Plug On Grandma”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 01:43 PM
Best? Most eye-catching-est? chyron thus far during the president's health care town hall in Portsmouth, NH, on MSNBC just now:... More
You Had A Bad (Hair) Day, Tabloids Edition
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Megan noted earlier Andrea Mitchell's take on "what insiders are saying" about Sec. of State Clinton's annoyed "I'm the Secretary... More
No, ABC News, This Isn’t “The Way to Reform Health Care”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM
ABC News's constructive contribution to health care reportage this morning on Good Morning America, above the unintentionally(?) maddening chyron "THE... More
Media: You’ve Got Kurtz’s Go-Ahead to Pronounce Palin “Wrong”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 04:13 PM
From Howard Kurtz's Q&A today at washingtonpost.com: Portland, Ore.: Is there a point when the media should simply say a... More
About Today’s NYT A-1 Trend Story…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 02:17 PM
... the one about how "people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging... More
Message Received? Advertisers (and Air Force) Turn to Twitter
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Today in Twitter news: The New York Times Bits blog http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/tweeting-for-dollars/?scp=1&sq=twitter%20izea&st=cse ">reports on one marketing company's introduction of "'Sponsored Tweets,'... More
“The New Equivalent of a Full-Page Newspaper Ad?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 09:48 AM
According to Nieman Lab (citing the following specifics from an LA Times profile of Hollywood gossip blogger Perez Hilton), it... More
CNN Grade Grubs
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Still recovering from coverage of Obama's First 100 Days? Brace yourself. It's time for the media to assess Obama's Second... More
Not All “Media Workers” Can Do That
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 6, 2009 at 09:17 AM
Time Out New York's Matt Schneiderman suggests five lines of work unemployed journalists might pursue -- publicist, editorial strategist, project... More
That “Stirring Scene” on the Burbank Tarmac…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2009 at 04:51 PM
...No, not this one, you Beltway rube: This one: Per the New York Times's Adam Nagourney: It was a stirring... More
Not Everything “Happening Now” is News
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2009 at 04:09 PM
Via County Fair: (Though President Obama might want to keep this in mind when he heads off to the Vineyard... More
The Puppetry of the President
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2009 at 02:12 PM
From a particularly animated bit of President Obama's speech in Elkhart, Indiana earlier today (emphasis mine): ...energy and innovation, health... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
