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“Don’t Jump Off-the-Record”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2009 at 09:40 AM
Washington Post ombud Andrew Alexander reports that BNA (Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.), "which produces an array of print and... More
Let’s Give ‘Em Something to (Continue to) “Talk About”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 04:54 PM
On Mediaite's front page right now: Will The Right Make This Obama’s “Wise Latina” Moment? One line of the President’s... More
Wired’s Media Pyramid (“News” Still Broccoli)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 01:20 PM
This must explain something about us (obesity? stupidity?) Wired illustrates a balanced "media diet:" "entertainment" is the "whole grains" or... More
Awkward Spitzer Moment on MSNBC
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM
MSNBC's Carlos Watson was joined this morning by guest-co-host (and former New York Governor) Eliot Spitzer. Guest co-hosting a news... More
Meet The Press (And Hair)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM
One day, Politico has you "enjoying a gravitas boost" from your "prematurely salt-and-pepper mane," and then they turn around and... More
CBS News Retires To Keep Using Cronkite’s Voice-Over
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Viewers of the CBS Evening News heard Walter Cronkite's voice-over for final time Friday night. The network opted to retire... More
Sanford’s Sorry State Column
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina apologizes and seeks forgiveness via guest column in Sunday's The State. In part: It’s... More
Do Reader Comments on Web Articles “Devalue” Journalism?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 16, 2009 at 07:15 AM
Douglas Bailey, president and founder of DBMediaStrategies Inc., thinks so. (What is DBMedia Strategies? The company's web site says that... More
GlobalPost Reporter On His Weeks in Iran’s Evin Prison
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 03:10 PM
GlobalPost correspondent Iason Athanasiadis, while reporting on the demonstrations in Tehran, was arrested and held in Evin jail for three... More
CNN’s Rick Sanchez “Take[s] the Conversation Outside the Beltway…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 03:04 PM
... to the South Florida kitchen of his mom's house to, "with some trepidation," ask his mom, Adela Fernanndez, "the... More
“For She’s a Jolly Good Journalist”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM
The Washington Post's Jacqueline L. Salmon today profiles Randall Terry, onetime head of Operation Rescue, who "is trying to build... More
Obama to Costas: “Is This Hannity?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Before President Obama threw out the first pitch at the MLB All-Star Game last night, MLB Network's Bob Costas got... More
More From The State: Tapper, Jenkins Woo Sanford
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 15, 2009 at 09:46 AM
How's the sausage made? More details today from The State: "Media jostled for access to Sanford:" The media e-mails also... More
The State: Media Outlets Offered to Spin Sanford Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2009 at 01:56 PM
The (South Carolina) State, via open records laws, late yesterday received "nearly 600 pages of documents — e-mails and phone... More
Fox News: Scratch That; Reverse It.
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 14, 2009 at 11:43 AM
On Fox News a few minutes ago, anchor Bret Baier described the "interruptions" during yesterday's Sotomayor hearings as "about abortion,... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
