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Headline News From Lauer’s Obama Interview
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 2, 2009 at 02:08 PM
What news was made during Matt Lauer's Super Bowl Sunday interview with President Obama on NBC? What's the headline? Depends,... More
Groundhog Tweets
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 2, 2009 at 09:48 AM
Looks like Gen. Beauregard Lee has finally found a way to get out from under Punxsutawney Phil's shadow: "Georgia groundhog... More
“Thank God The Newspaper Exists…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Feb 2, 2009 at 09:23 AM
...said Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Novaya Gazeta, "an independent newspaper that has established itself as one of the... More
Fun With Slideshows
By Katia Bachko Jan 30, 2009 at 05:10 PM
From the Forewords, described as "a musicless PowerPoint band" comes an excellent slideshow of obscure trade magazine covers. I'll say... More
Barry’s (Black)Berry
By Katia Bachko Jan 30, 2009 at 02:56 PM
The Economist has the skinny and the tech-talk on President Obama's much-discussed, but not-so-slim BlackBerry: President Obama may have surrendered... More
Guess Who’s Twittering?
By Katia Bachko Jan 30, 2009 at 02:34 PM
Answer: The Library of Congress. The tech-savvy folks at the LOC have blogging for some time and now they've jumped... More
California No More?
By Jane Kim Jan 30, 2009 at 01:54 PM
Kevin Roderick at LAObserved reports that the Los Angeles Times is closing down its California section: Publisher Eddy Hartenstein has... More
Updike Remembered
By Katia Bachko Jan 30, 2009 at 01:35 PM
Reflections on the passing of John Updike abound this week, and here's a smattering of some noteworthy eulogies. Granta collects... More
David Pogue’s “Twitter Experiment”
By Megan Garber Jan 29, 2009 at 03:21 PM
So, yesterday, The New York Times's David Pogue spoke at a conference in Vegas. "The topic was Web 2.0," he... More
Pulitzers, in 1s and 0s
By Megan Garber Jan 29, 2009 at 02:58 PM
Hey, all you journalistic procrastinators: the deadline for submitting entries for the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes is this Monday. And since... More
Politics Fix
By Megan Garber Jan 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM
One of the more fascinating--not to mention entertaining--aspects of Robert Gibbs's nearly daily press conferences has been the emergence of... More
Nightline’s Future (Per “People With Knowledge Of Meetings”)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM
The New York Times today reports: "ABC Said To Consider 'Kimmel' in 'Nightline' Slot," (that is, moving comedian Jimmy Kimmel's... More
Joan Walsh “Could Never Be” Dick Armey’s Wife (So There!)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 29, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Chris Matthews sort of lost (or failed to take) control of Hardball last night . What happened? During a loud... More
End Of (Book) World?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 29, 2009 at 09:24 AM
After February 15, the Washington Post will no longer publish Book World, its stand-alone print book review section. Books coverage,... More
Bow Reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2009 at 04:56 PM
Do you know this Lego woman? Look familiar, at all? The LA Times explains. SF Weekly offers additional images. The... 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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
