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“This Woolly Primary Season”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 16, 2010 at 09:10 AM
That's the New York Times's description of our times, in a profile today of Delaware Republican primary winner Christine O'Donnell,... More
Washington Post: Fenty Defeats Gray!
By Justin Peters Sep 15, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Yesterday, city council president Vincent Gray defeated abrasive incumbent Adrian Fenty in D.C.'s Democratic mayoral primary. (Gray is all but... More
Journalists, “Media Professionals” Gave Over $469,900 To Political Candidates
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 14, 2010 at 04:24 PM
An analysis of FEC filings by the Center for Responsive Politics found that 235 people who "identified themselves on government... More
The Times’s Latest Interactive on the WTC
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM
If you visited the New York Times home page earlier this morning, you couldn’t miss the interactive feature “Reviving Ground... More
AP: Media Voice of Reason?
By Joel Meares Sep 9, 2010 at 05:47 PM
Last month, the AP ran a “fact check” on the “Ground Zero Mosque” story and cautioned its reporters against the... More
ProPublica Welcomes All Nerds
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM
ProPublica has just launched what they call their “Nerd Blog” to highlight their latest developments in news applications. (“So what... More
You Can’t Do That Online
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM
A piece in The New York Times Home & Garden section got a little bit meta on Wednesday. Anne Raver... More
The Case For The Confusing Headline
By Joel Meares Sep 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM
The Baltimore Sun reports today that a front page headline featuring the word “limn” drew some rather confounded feedback from... More
A “9/11 Widow” on the Press & Park51
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 8, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Back in May, when the words "Ground Zero mosque" began making headlines, CNN wanted to know: "As a family member... More
Parker Spitzer (Awkward Already)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 7, 2010 at 04:28 PM
CNN.com today posted this promo in which Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer pretend to argue over the name of their... More
AP: Election 2010 is “Bursting With Money”
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 7, 2010 at 03:56 PM
The AP today lays out evidence that "politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry,"... More
Reflections of an Iraqi Journalist
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 7, 2010 at 01:03 PM
Here's Faris al-Qaisi, a 47-year-old Iraqi cameraman for AP Television News, reflecting on "what it has been like to live... More
Federal Judge Says Website Not Liable For Comments
By Lauren Kirchner Sep 3, 2010 at 01:23 PM
From Online Media Daily, a small item about a libel case dismissed by a Southern District court U.S. District Court... More
NYT Advances Oval Office Gets New Rug, Chairs Story
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM
The New York Times today publishes its third piece on the recent "subtle redo" of the Oval Office. There was,... More
On Palin (“Off The Record?”)
By Liz Cox Barrett Sep 1, 2010 at 04:58 PM
Some excerpts from Michael Joseph Gross's, er, unflattering Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin -- a piece that brought Politico's... 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”
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
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
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.
