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As The Media Circles Speculate (Weekdays, 4pm, Only On…)
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Last week, I linked to Annie Lowrey's observation on Foreign Policy's Passport blog of "How [News] Stories About the Secretary... More
NY Post: “Chicks” Home From North Korea!
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 5, 2009 at 09:43 AM
Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are safely back in California after months in a North Korean jail.... More
President Puts Words (And Cupcakes) in Helen Thomas’s Mouth
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2009 at 04:06 PM
President Obama dropped by the White House briefing room this afternoon to present a plate of cupcakes to Helen Thomas,... More
Bad Morning America
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Side effects of getting your health news from morning news shows may include dizziness, nausea, anxiety, confusion, false hope... Prof.... More
“Mad Bitch,” Twitter Edition
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM
If Bill Clinton were on a "private mission" in North Korea meeting with Kim Jong-il to discuss the release of... More
“Steve” Agrees With Steve Doocy…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 4, 2009 at 09:33 AM
... who sounds a lot like that woman at that health care town hall. Well, "people think alike:" The Daily... More
NYT “Too Pushy” to Land Levi Johnston Interview
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 3, 2009 at 03:58 PM
The Alaska Daily News's's Julia O'Malley recently dined with Levi Johnston (father of Sarah Palin's grandson, Tripp) and Johnston's entourage,... More
McCain: Campaign Press Had “A Totally More Hostile Attitude”…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 3, 2009 at 02:17 PM
.... and that's totally John (not Meghan) McCain's assessment of the 2008 v. 2000 campaign press. Sen. McCain aired a... More
NYT’s Stanley to “Again Get Special Editing Attention”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 3, 2009 at 09:54 AM
"How Did This Happen?" ("This" being seven eight errors in Alessandra Stanley's July 17th New York Times "appraisal" of Walter... More
“Sudan ‘Trousers Trial’ Adjourned…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2009 at 03:14 PM
...is not a headline from an American news source (if the first word didn't give that away -- Sudan?!-- surely... More
A Seat at the (Picnic) Table For Fox News?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Is there space for Team Fox & Friends at that presidential picnic table for tomorrow night's "teachable moment" with beer?... More
If You Hold It, They Will Come
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM
I guess the publicly-released 911 tape didn't say it all. "911 caller in Gates case to hold press conference." Well,... More
In My Spare Time? I Scrapbook, Jog, Do a Little Journalism…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Last month, Time's James Poniewozik imagined a future for journalists in the "literary-fiction/poetry model" whereby "a lucky few, best-selling creative... More
President PYT
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2009 at 09:45 AM
All that "skittering away from chocolate goodies, as though... a starlet obsessing on a svelte waistline" that Maureen "Gender Twist"... More
Gibbs: “No Formal Agenda Other Than Cold Beer”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 28, 2009 at 04:22 PM
The White House press secretary previewing the president's plans for his August Martha's Vineyard getaway? No. The White House press... 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?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
