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Teleprompter Talks Back
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 25, 2009 at 04:01 PM
"What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?" asked the AP's Ron Fournier last night in his... More
A Presidency “Defined” (So Soon?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 25, 2009 at 02:34 PM
At The Daily Beast, Eric Alterman critiques last night's performance by the White House press corps, giving a thumbs-down to... More
“Progress,” “Patience”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 25, 2009 at 08:46 AM
A quick scan of the front pages of today's papers (thanks, Newseum) shows that President Obama's second prime time press... More
“Detached, Bite-Sized Yippety-Yap!”
By Megan Garber Mar 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Behold, a new genre of artistic expression: twarody (not to be confused with twatire)--fun had at the expense of the... More
Crawford to Be Obama’s Special Asst for Science, Tech, and Innovation Policy
By Megan Garber Mar 24, 2009 at 03:09 PM
Word has it that President Obama has tapped Susan Crawford--media-law scholar, OneWebDay founder, ICANN board member, and Net neutrality advocate--to... More
LeBron James Has His Pre-Game Powder Toss…
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 03:03 PM
... Ed Henry has his pre-prime-time-presidential-press-conference white notebook paper ritual. Henry, CNN's White House correspondent, "writes his [questions for the... More
Ask The President…about Student Loan Forgiveness
By Megan Garber Mar 24, 2009 at 02:59 PM
I wrote last week about the launch of Ask The President, a new initiative aimed at injecting the people's perspective... More
Dow Low, Sugar High
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 01:54 PM
Last week, the New York Times reported that "Whoopie Pies Are Having Their Moment," that the "cake-like sandwiches" have "finally... More
Klein: “Get Pissed At… Media Culture”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 01:06 PM
At Time's Swampland blog, Joe Klein offers some media criticism (er, "media culture" criticism): A certain newsmagazine--hint: not this one--has... More
Tonight: Will Obama Sell The Bank Plan? Make Gaffes? Get Ratings?
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 12:24 PM
"Some in Washington [are] wondering whether the president is becoming overexposed," writes the New York Times's Peter Baker (emphasis mine)... More
Morning Blago
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 24, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Tomorrow morning, from 7 to 9am, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will be guest-hosting "The Don Wade & Roma Morning... More
Forget Michelle’s Arms
By Katia Bachko Mar 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Yesterday on Fresh Air, Queen of the Question Terry Gross broke new ground in the bawdy body part banter when... More
Word Association
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2009 at 02:29 PM
If I told you that the word "flaccid" appeared yesterday on the New York Times op-ed page under one of... More
Another O’Reilly “Ambush”
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2009 at 01:54 PM
"My O'Reilly Ambush," made The Daily Show, your "O'Reilly Ambush..." has its own Facebook page... More
NYT on Spontaneous Story Combustion
By Liz Cox Barrett Mar 23, 2009 at 01:01 PM
I'm going to paraphrase my keen colleague, Brent: In the New York Times "Week in Review" there was an article... 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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A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
