The Kicker
From One “Ultimate Thinking Person” to Another
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Newsweek's Jon Meacham (a.k.a, "The Utimate Thinking Person") has, for the first time in the magazine's history, brought on a... More
Talking Tiananmen “Tank Man”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 3, 2009 at 10:11 AM
At Lens, the New York Times's photo blog, four photojournalists recall covering Tiananmen Square in June 1989 (h/t, NiemanLab). Fearing... More
What Your Own Cable Channel’s For
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Any guesses as to which NBC show has been referenced more often over the past 24 hours on MSNBC (if... More
Squirrelly Fox
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 01:49 PM
If you had to guess on which cable news channel this morning I learned of the story about, in the... More
More Thoughts On Saving Newspapers…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 01:36 PM
...from the former and current editors of Vanity Fair. (And, coincidentally, both accounts involve London's The Daily Telegraph!) Tina Brown,... More
Today In CBS News: Ustream, PU
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Per the New York Times: Seeking a younger audience more accustomed to watching the news on the Internet than on... More
You Say So-TO-mae-ohr…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 10:09 AM
I post the below Daily Show clip from last night for the footage of various TV news anchors and pundits... More
“The World’s Most Important Network”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 2, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Below, a compilation of news stories from 1987, when CNN moved its Atlanta headquarters from a red brick, white-columned "former... More
Your Shoe Leather Is Safe In Riyadh
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 04:45 PM
Time's White House correspondent (and onetime CJR employee), Michael Scherer, shares the official U.S. State Department "instructions" for reporters... More
Well, Maureen Dowd’s “On Vacation…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 03:35 PM
...so in her absence it fell to someone else at the New York Times to call President Obama out for... More
“Case Study of How the Echo Chamber of Washington Works…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 02:21 PM
...NPR's description of Jeffrey Rosen's infamous "The Case Against Sotomayor" TNR article "blog entry" (h/t, Glenn Greenwald). Rosen won't be... More
What Obama White House “Feels Like”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 01:43 PM
A reader's question from today's chat with Ana Marie Cox and Tucker Carlson at washingtonpost.com: Q: Ana, you see this... More
Innovation Recommendation: OTM on Seattle’s New Media Landscape
By Megan Garber Jun 1, 2009 at 10:57 AM
If you missed On The Media this weekend, don't miss its "The Inheritance of Loss" segment--in which Brooke Gladstone explores... More
A “Long Shot Effort” by Star Ledger “Refugees”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 08:44 AM
In today's New York Times, David Carr writes up NewJerseyNewsroom, ex-Star Ledger reporters' "effort at creating an alternative source of... More
Is CNN “Fading?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 1, 2009 at 08:36 AM
CNN's prime time ratings are down, observes Politico's Michael Calderone. Some "staffers" are concerned. [Wh]ile being “nonpartisan” is something most... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
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The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
