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Geraldo Got Goosebumps
By Liz Cox Barrett May 27, 2009 at 01:24 PM
Gail Shister interviewed Geraldo Rivera (last seen offering to buy Blagojevich dinner) on his personal reaction to yesterday's Sotomayor news... More
On Fox & Friends, Miss California Subs For Miss America
By Liz Cox Barrett May 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM
The day after the California Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gay marriage, proponent of "opposite marriage," Carrie Prejean... More
On Gatekeepers and InfoValets
By Megan Garber May 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Going on now: "From Gatekeepers to InfoValets: Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism," a future-of-journalism conference in Washington, DC. Convened by... More
Sounds… Familiar?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 27, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Per the AP: Twitter Inc.'s co-founders say the rapidly growing online communications company will eventually charge fees for its services,... More
Here You Go, Jeffrey Rosen
By Liz Cox Barrett May 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM
The New York Times, on its Web site, has posted "Selected Cases of Judge Sonia Sotomayor" (516 pages, pdf) for... More
Gibbs: You Didn’t Mind Anonymous Sources Before
By Liz Cox Barrett May 27, 2009 at 10:08 AM
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz has a piece today about, in part, how some reporters have protested background briefings like... More
Jon Friedman, MoDo, Glass Houses
By Liz Cox Barrett May 27, 2009 at 09:14 AM
MarketWatch media critic Jon Friedman weighs in on last week's Maureen Dowd controversy by skating around the most relevant issues... More
Froomkin’s “From Scratch” Online Newspaper
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 04:33 PM
For the Nieman Journalism Lab, Dan Froomkin imagines what a "from scratch" online newspaper started "today" might look like. It... More
Lapham’s Quarterly: Utne’s “Best New Publication”
By Megan Garber May 26, 2009 at 03:26 PM
Congrats to Lapham's Quarterly, Lewis Lapham's journal of history, which was awarded "Best New Publication" at the 20th Annual Utne... More
Sotomayor Has Been “Blessed”* In Many Ways…
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 03:21 PM
.... but "blessed" with children is not, as far as we know, one of them. Until this morning. When Politico's... More
The Gray Lady Talks Twitter
By Megan Garber May 26, 2009 at 03:06 PM
So today is, apparently, Social Media Day at The New York Times. In addition to announcing Jennifer Preston as its... More
NYT Introduces (Explains) New “Social Media Editor”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
From the internal New York Times memo introducing Jennifer Preston, the paper's "Social Media Editor" (h/t, NiemanLab): Jennifer will work... More
Matthews Sees “A Campaign”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM
On MSNBC Chris Matthews has been excitedly characterizing this morning's official Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination announcement as the start... More
MSNBC Quotes “Unnamed Former Clarence Thomas Clerk…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 10:45 AM
...and so it begins, writes HuffPo's Jason Linkins in "How the Media Will Smear Sotomayor." More
An Actual WSJ Article
By Liz Cox Barrett May 26, 2009 at 10:03 AM
As a co-worker said just now: you gotta hand it to The Wall Street Journal for their dogged pursuit of... 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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