The Kicker
More Songs For Amanpour
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM
One TV critic's "panache and briskness" is another's "shrill and showy." Some of the very things that the New York... More
Christiane, I wrote you a song
By Joel Meares Jul 30, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Among the many Christiane Amanpour tidbits doing the rounds in the lead-up to her debut on This Week Sunday, we... More
Karzai’s About-Face in the NYT
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM
On Tuesday, a New York Times front page story, “Leaks Add to Pressure on White House Over Strategy,” followed up... More
Obama on The View (On Afghanistan, On Snooki)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 29, 2010 at 11:14 AM
For anyone, like me, who happens not to right now be watching (and/or Twittering about), President Obama on The View... More
What We Need is a “Slow News Movement”
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 28, 2010 at 05:22 PM
Walter Shapiro over at Politics Daily considers how quickly the Shirley Sherrod hackjob spread, viruslike, from Breitbart to Fox News... More
“I’m here to tell you what it’s like to be a reporter at Guantanamo.”
By Clint Hendler Jul 27, 2010 at 03:29 PM
McClatchy is offering a very worth reading commentary, adapted from a speech recently given by The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg... More
For CNN: The “What Glenn Beck Said” Show
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Nancy Franklin On Television in the current New Yorker: Everyone, it seems, is a media hound and a media watchdog... More
The Summer of Alvin Greene?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03 AM
"People who write about Alvin Greene are going to get clicked on," [Democratic operative Wyeth] Ruthven explains to Politico's Jonathan... More
Be Joy Behar (What Would You Ask Obama?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 26, 2010 at 02:26 PM
A "non-traditional news show” is how the White House describes ABC's The View, in explaining to the New York Times's... More
Blog Reax to WikiLeaks’s Leak (Afghan War’s Pentagon Papers?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 26, 2010 at 01:48 PM
Once you’ve finished reading the 90,000-plus mostly classified Afghanistan-related U.S. military documents brought to you by WikiLeaks, you can read... More
Daniel Schorr, 1916-2010
By Clint Hendler Jul 23, 2010 at 02:31 PM
Daniel Schorr, the legendary CBS newsman who reinvented himself as an analyst and commentator for CNN and NPR, died this... More
NYT Reports on Gitmo Press Access Dispute
By Greg Marx Jul 21, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Jeremy Peters of The New York Times reports today on an ongoing struggle between press outlets and the Pentagon: After... More
Politico’s Memory Hole Grows Deeper
By Clint Hendler Jul 20, 2010 at 04:48 PM
Over at Slate, Jeremy Singer-Vine has just published the results of a three-week study on how often Politico modifies major... More
A Story in Screen Shots: Cable News Covers Lohan
By Liz Cox Barrett Jul 20, 2010 at 02:51 PM
A chronological summary, in screen shots, of the cable news coverage of Lindsay Lohan reporting to the Beverly Hills Municipal... More
Knight-Batten Innovation Award Winners Announced
By Lauren Kirchner Jul 19, 2010 at 04:52 PM
The Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism were announced on the J-Lab site on Monday. The $10,000 grand prize goes... 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.
