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Does This Question Make My Butt Look Big Interview Look Small?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2009 at 01:09 PM
Katie Couric (or tweet assistant) via Twitter yesterday: I've been granted an exclusive interview with Pres. Obama tomorrow. Working on... More
Science Clichés: Steer Clear
By Sanhita Reddy Jul 21, 2009 at 01:02 PM
Cheers to the Knight Science Journalism Tracker for picking up a snarky post at Wired titled, “5 Atrocious Science Clichés... More
It’s On at Slate
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Michael Kinsley announces a "highly unscientific experiment " at Slate to determine "who's better informed, newspaper readers or Web surfers?"... More
“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
Still More on Sotomayor
By Greg Marx Jul 17, 2009 at 04:37 PM
I know from anecdotal experience that my views about the value of the Senate hearings on Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court... More
Cost Control, Back in the News
By Greg Marx Jul 17, 2009 at 02:59 PM
In the wake of Atul Gawande’s much-discussed article in the June 1 New Yorker—in which he argued that a key... More
Buggin’ Out in Baltimore
By Justin Peters Jul 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM
I have a longstanding fascination with mattresses, bedbugs, night terrors, and other such factors that can confer or deny a... More
The Huffington Post as Moral Compass?
By Diana Dellamere Jul 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM
The Huffington Post is-thus far-a success story for the hybrid news model of voluntary contribution mixed with professional journalism. Well,... More
Lobbyists Slimy; No One Too Surprised
By Greg Marx Jul 17, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Two weeks after Mike Allen broke the story of The Washington Post’s planned “salons,” he’s back today with another tale... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
