The Kicker
Photog Arrested in Iran Speaks Out
By Megan Garber Jun 19, 2009 at 07:22 AM
Photo District News has a fascinating Q&A with a photographer (European) who was arrested on Tuesday while covering the events... More
“It’s Like an Electronic Leash to Yank Me Back In”
By Megan Garber Jun 18, 2009 at 10:50 AM
...is how Contessa Brewer described her work-issued BlackBerry on MSNBC just now. (The comment came as Brewer was readying herself... More
More Op-Charts, Please
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM
There's something about getting straight data --presented on a pretend clip-board, in the middle of an opinion page-- that I... More
“First Line of Surveillance of All The News…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2009 at 09:52 AM
... is how Josh Marshall described the role of TalkingPointsMemo.com's readers on last night's Colbert Report. (From Colbert's intro: "Here's... More
Twitter Karma
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 18, 2009 at 08:31 AM
Beware, Jack Shafer ("Doubting Twitter. Let's not get carried away about its role in Iran's demonstrations"). When you speak ill... More
Who Remains To Report In Iran
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2009 at 02:34 PM
From the New York Times: After the visas of most visiting journalists expire [including, today, NPR's correspondent and the Times's... More
NYT’s “Coy” Iran Coverage?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2009 at 12:58 PM
From Time's James Poniewozik, via Twitter: Is it just me or does nytimes #iranelection coverage seem strangely coy? As if... More
President Harms Fly; TV News Harms America
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2009 at 09:40 AM
CNBC's John Harwood had a sit-down with President Obama yesterday during which they discussed.... during which the president addressed... um,... More
CNN’s “Unverified Material”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2009 at 09:10 AM
A segment from last night's Daily Show mocking a new on-screen ID that's popped up on CNN during reports on... More
(Where To) Get Your Iran News
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 04:30 PM
Both The Nation's iran_s_twitter_revolution?rel=emailNation">Ari Berman and Politico's Ben Smith offer recommendations for where to get news (and commentary) about Iran.... More
Twitter Triumphalism? (“CNNFail” and All I Got Was This T-Shirt)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 02:57 PM
For just $17.99, you can be the proud (triumphant) owner of this #CNNFail ringer T. Probably you've heard of #CNNFail?... More
Kristof’s Elite Tweets
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 10:59 AM
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweacts to making The Twitter Elite (or Twitter's "suggested user list," on which the... More
Iran on Today’s Front Pages
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 09:34 AM
Well. Here's how the New York Post today plays the news from Iran. I'm guessing they're alone with that headline,... More
“Off-The-Record,” Explained Through Role Play…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 04:33 PM
... for the benefit of "angry bloggers," by Choire Sicha at The Awl. Bringing, er, total clarity to one of... More
Keller in Tehran: Admirable? Useful? “Creeping Meachamism?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 01:37 PM
The New York Times's executive editor, Bill Keller, is filing A-1 election-related reports from Tehran, a co-bylined "news analysis" today... 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?
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A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
