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Hoarse to Horse: Health Care Coverage “Storyline Shifted Last Week”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Per PEJ's News Coverage Index, "the debate over health care proved to be the No. 1 story" for the fifth... More
Found: Another “Calm,” “Respectful” Town Hall Questioner
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 26, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Yesterday, New York Times readers met Bob Collier, a man who did not yell while expressing at a recent town... More
Kennedy: An Obituary in Multimedia
By Megan Garber Aug 26, 2009 at 09:35 AM
The Boston Globe has a powerful multimedia retrospective of the life of Teddy Kennedy -- complete with photo slideshows, videos,... More
Photo Quiz: Guess the Topic of This MSNBC Segment
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2009 at 03:09 PM
What is this? What was MSNBC reporting on here? Yes. This is an image of MSNBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman (playing... More
And Maureen Dowd’s Webinar Will Be On?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2009 at 01:40 PM
Per Nieman Lab: School’s in session at The New York Times this fall, and the professors include some big bylines... More
NYT Profiles Man Who Uses Indoor Voice at Health Care Town Hall
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Today, a (non-TV) news outlet profiles a "calm," "respectful questioner" from a health care town hall. (Not that yelling and... More
“Template For Future Newspaper” on Russia’s “Extremism List”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 25, 2009 at 10:03 AM
From the Moscow Times (via Passport blog): Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Winnie the Pooh share a dubious honor: Anyone... More
The NYT’s Too-Polite Headlines
By Greg Marx Aug 25, 2009 at 09:39 AM
What’s up with the milquetoast headline writers at The New York Times? Two weeks ago, when reporters Jim Rutenberg and... More
In Which “Glamping” Becomes a Thing
By Megan Garber Aug 24, 2009 at 03:44 PM
Warning: the following is not from The Onion. The following is from The Wall Street Journal, and from the mind... More
Hoyt: NYT Must Laugh With (Not At) Readers
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 01:53 PM
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt hears readers' complaints (including "fat hatred" and "class bias") stemming from that bitingly... More
Contest: Non-Newsiest News From Obama’s Vineyard Vacation
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 01:06 PM
The president goes on vacation; the press goes with him (some, literally). And so "news" will be filed. See a... More
Couric on Cankles
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM
In Katie Couric's "Notebook" today (which I was tricked into reading via a Twitter promo-link posted by Couric or Couric... More
Embeds: The Good, The Bad, and The Accurate
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM
From Charlie Reed of Stars and Stripes, reporters embedding with U.S. forces in Afghanistan are subject to a background profile... More
More Details on Blackwater’s Role
By Greg Marx Aug 21, 2009 at 07:47 PM
Should’ve flagged this much earlier: James Risen and Mark Mazzetti’s front-page story in today’s New York Times, chock-full of juicy... More
Richard Florida’s “Stimulus Map”
By Greg Marx Aug 21, 2009 at 04:46 PM
Atlantic correspondent Richard Florida put up a post yesterday, drawing on data collected and initially mapped by ProPublica, that purports... 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?
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“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”
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A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
