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Liz Cox Barrett
“How You Raise Money” in D.C. (Hint: “Frugging”)
WaPo on Gingrich’s “money-making machine”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 16, 2011 at 05:14 PM
That Newt Gingrich's sanguinely named 527 group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, "pulls in big money" has been reported.... More
Best of 2010: Liz Cox Barrett
Barrett picks her top stories from 2010
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 27, 2010 at 01:00 PM
Target Corp.'s "Perfect Storm." Target was but one of several Minnesota-based companies to spend corporate money on election 2010, as... More
Best of 2011: Liz Cox Barrett
From Nevada to Paint Creek, Barrett picks her top stories from 2011
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 3, 2012 at 06:00 AM
Unpacking Rory Reid’s 91 PACs Maneuver Where there are campaign finance laws, there are work-arounds. And Jon Ralston, as... More
How a Defense Contract Is Won
NYT’s Boeing report left out the lobbying
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM
You're a giant aerospace company pursuing a defense contract potentially worth $100 billion: so, what's your lobbying budget for that?... More
Lean, Mean Campaign Money Machine
Crossroads groups tell WSJ, world what they aim to spend on election 2012
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM
The paper that is home to a weekly column by Karl Rove got first dibs Tuesday on the announcement of... More
PAC Man
USAT, NYT on skirting federal campaign donation limits (creatively)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM
How do potential presidential candidates circumvent donation-limiting federal campaign laws? Let us count the ways. There’s the federal PAC way.... More
Relax! IRS Rules Are “Lax”
WaPo has good news for anonymous political donors
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 11, 2011 at 04:09 PM
Are you a 501(c)(4) group that spent millions of anonymous dollars on attack ads during the midterm elections (or, perhaps,... More
What Not to Do in Campaign Reporting
Star Tribune writes down Bachmann’s “strong opinions”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 25, 2011 at 03:56 PM
Campaign 2012 is underway, even with but one declared Republican contender. And so comes an example of What Not to... 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?
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?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
