The Kicker
Where’s The Beef?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 03:14 PM
President Obama offered to buy burgers today for the journalists covering his spontaneous lunch trip with Vice President Biden to... More
“Act Like Those Underdog Newspapers of Years Ago…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 01:48 PM
...says Martin Kaiser, editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and newly-named president of the American Society of News Editors, in... More
Meacham’s Quarterly Weekly?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 01:01 PM
Don't these things usually go inside? Behold, the wrap-around, faux-front cover* of the current Newsweek (the new Newsweek, for "thinking... More
Want the Flyover Photos? FOIA ‘Em.
By Clint Hendler May 5, 2009 at 12:54 PM
This is just plain annoying. CBS Radio’s White House correspondent Mark Knoller, a prolific twitterer, passes on word that the... More
Today In White House Press Corps “News”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Who's bringing whom, so far, to the White House Correspondents Dinner? According to FishbowlDC's count: the Emanuel brothers are divided... More
“Five Good Years Left, If That” For Talk Radio?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 5, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Talkers magazine's Michael Harrison talks about the present and future of AM/FM radio with the Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby. More
Big Hairy Turnoff
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 04:40 PM
The extent of what I learned from today's Washington Post article, "Getting Their (Wireless) Lines Crossed," the latest in the... More
SupremeStakes Begins
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 02:04 PM
With word that Supreme Court Justice David Souter will soon retire, so begins SupremeStakes 2009 (frenzied press speculation of the... More
8 Minutes In Heaven (Or: Left Behind)
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM
From a Saturday night Associated Press report (emphasis mine): The first couple took full advantage of the cool spring night.... More
More Grades
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Results from last week's "unscientific" TVNewser poll asking readers to grade the White House press corps for its First 100... More
“Print Media Savior” Coming Soon?
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Here it comes to save the day? Large-screen Kindle is on its way. Maybe this week, even, reports the New... More
About Newspaper Readers
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM
According to a study by a "psychographic-research company" called Mindset Media, "personality is often a more effective prediction tool for... More
“Journalistic Ambien…”
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2009 at 09:29 AM
... is Jack Shafer's assessment of Cokie Roberts's regular Monday NPR Morning Edition"analysis" segments. "Roberts doesn't just voice the conventional... More
Because it’s Friday
By Clint Hendler May 1, 2009 at 03:56 PM
Here's a pretty astounding "debate" between Fox Business host Stuart Varney and Robert Frank, an economist who had the temerity... More
Two-Hour Teaser
By Katia Bachko May 1, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Cable news is infuriating in its tendency to tantalize and tease viewers by hinting at a juicy story right before... 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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Questions and exercises for journalism students.
