The Kicker
“It’s Exhilarating To Be Fired At Age 86…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM
... is how Liz Smith winds down her final New York Post column today. "It's emasculating" to be fired, Smith... More
Kenneth’s Response to the “Internet Hoo-Hah”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 26, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Jack McBrayer, the actor who plays 30 Rock's Kenneth The Page, the character to whom many bloggers compared Gov. Bobby... More
Parallel Thoughts
By Katia Bachko Feb 25, 2009 at 04:30 PM
In last night's not-State of the Union, President Obama set out some ambitious goals for American eduction, saying "I ask... More
WaPo On The End of Big Pimpin’
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 03:56 PM
The Boston Globe recently brought us the story of people "Laid Off And Loving It." Today, the Washington Post introduces... More
Calderone Gets To The Bottom of “Oh God”-Gate
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 01:14 PM
Politico's Michael Calderone solves the mystery of "Oh God"-Gate -- that is, which MSNBC anchor's voice could be heard last... More
First Lady’s Arms Inspire Envy, Suspicion (And Fear?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Michelle Obama Goes Sleeveless, Again" is the annoyed-sounding headline on Jodi Kantor's post on The Caucus Blog at NYTimes.com, observing... More
“We Will Recover…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 09:55 AM
... is the phrase from President Obama's speech last night that seems to have grabbed headline writers at newspapers across... More
Cooper: “I Guess The Republicans, Then, Are 50 Cent?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 25, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Cut the deficit in half...."Restart the engine of our prosperity"... Health care reform... The question on many cable commentators lips... More
Betwixt and BeTwitter Prefix Obsessions
By Sara Germano Feb 24, 2009 at 05:09 PM
All this twalk about Twitter has left me feeling twoverwhelmed. Two tweeks ago, the NYC Twestival (attended by CJR staff... More
Stephanopoulos’s Twitter Misunderstanding
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 24, 2009 at 03:00 PM
"The bass not served w cannabis! 'Pot' short for potato!" read an urgent tweet minutes ago from ABC News's George... More
Take Our Pundits To Work Day
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs brought MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski (and Morning Joe viewers) on a "behind... More
Columbia Journalism Review to Launch First Comprehensive Study of Online Practices of Print Magazines
By The Editors Feb 24, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Every significant magazine in the U.S. either has or is about to set up its own Web site, but according... More
Friedman’s Got Fallon’s Back (Strange Column Alert)
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Marketwatch's Jon Friedman regrets his harsh assessments back when of Katie Couric's first night anchoring The CBS Evening News and... More
NYT’s Incomplete Snark Review
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Yesterday, the New York Times reviewed David Denvy's book, Snark... minus the chapter (yes, chapter) taking down Times columnist Maureen... More
Column Advice For Paul Krugman
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM
In Ryan Lizza's New Yorker profile of Rahm Emanuel, the White House Chief of Staff and "political John McEnroe" offers... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
