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Did Blago Make “Self-Condemning News” On Maddow’s Show?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, directly after her interview with Gov. Blagojevich last night, wondered on-air: Did he just confess to me... More
Calling All “Enlightened Philanthropists…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 28, 2009 at 09:45 AM
On today's New York Times op-ed page, David Swensen and Michael Schmidt (an investment officer and a financial analyst, respectively,... More
Kindle 1.0: Fired
By Megan Garber Jan 27, 2009 at 04:45 PM
In "The Future of Reading," Ezra Klein gave a mixed review to the physical aspect of Amazon's Kindle. The screen... More
“The Epidemic That Wasn’t” (Even If We Said It Was)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 03:54 PM
Maybe you're old enough to remember the media coverage of "crack babies" back in the '80s and '90s? Allow the... More
“Dream” Deferred?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 03:24 PM
Earlier this hour, the following weather-related headline appeared on the NBC News Washington Web site: Moments after I took that... More
Rabbit at Rest
By Megan Garber Jan 27, 2009 at 02:03 PM
John Updike, celebrated novelist and literary critic, has died of lung cancer at 76. Updike's Wikipedia page was updated to... More
Fox Fumbles Geography
By Katia Bachko Jan 27, 2009 at 01:51 PM
CJR reader Dan writes in with a tip about a recent Fox News segment called "Terrorists in Your Backyard," in... More
Want To Be “Envelop[ed] in a Multimedia Web of [Rick] Warren’s Message”?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Then you'll want to pay the $30 subscription fee Reader's Digest is charging for Pastor Rick Warren's new quarterly magazine,... More
Franklin: “By Watching [The Inauguration] On TV, I’d Missed It”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I recommend (after a colleague recommended it to me) reading Nancy Franklin's "On Television" column in the current New Yorker... More
Woodward Tells Matthews Something He Doesn’t Know
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 27, 2009 at 09:30 AM
I am sure, though I can't find a link at this moment, that I have complained before about the "Tell... More
Could Knowing Everything The Obamas Eat Be Good For You?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 26, 2009 at 03:17 PM
From a recent Associated Press report: The country's top chefs, several of whom traveled to Washington for Obama's inauguration this... More
Blago to Geraldo: “Is That Ethical?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 26, 2009 at 01:57 PM
Fox News's Geraldo Rivera was promised a "2:00 interview" with Gov. Blagojevich. Snubbed by the governor's "sleazy PR guy," Geraldo--... More
Coincidence? Synergy? Swans!
By Megan Garber Jan 26, 2009 at 01:44 PM
So I couldn't help but notice, reading The Swan Song Heard 'Round the World just now, an odd collusion between... More
Miss New York: Palin, Pageant Misunderstood
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 26, 2009 at 12:50 PM
During the question-and-answer section of Saturday night's Miss America pageant, Miss New York, Taylor Smith, fielded this question: In Governor... More
How To Handle Blago’s “Out-of-Context” Comeback
By Liz Cox Barrett Jan 26, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Those words have been "taken out of context" seems to be Gov. Blagojevich's go-to reply when asked by reporters about... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
