Politico's Jonathan Martin, who has been with the publication since its earliest days, is leaving for the New York Times, according to a memo obtained by The Huffington Post.

Martin will become the paper's new national political correspondent, a storied position once held by the legendary R. W. Apple....

President Obama said Thursday that he is “troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable.”

In a major speech on national security, Obama said that the “Justice Department’s investigation of national security leaks offers a recent example of the challenges...

The Obama Justice Department has come under fire over the past week following revelations that investigators secretly seized AP phone records in one leak investigation and accused Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen of possibly being a criminal "co-conspirator" for doing basic reporting in another....

NEW YORK –- The White House press corps is up in arms over the Obama administration’s aggressive tactics in investigating leaks, from secretly seizing journalists’ phone records to likening basic reporting to criminal conspiracy in order to obtain a journalist’s personal email account.

NBC chief...

WASHINGTON –- The Justice Department seized phone records for numbers associated with Fox News and the White House as part of a leak investigation, according to an October 2011 court filing.

The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza first reported Tuesday that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration’s Justice Department has moved beyond investigating and prosecuting leaks at an unprecedented level to claiming in court documents that committing a standard act of journalism may itself be criminal.

In 2010, FBI agent Reginald Reyes described a reporter, recently identified as Fox News'...

NEW YORK –- In 1971, Max Frankel, then-Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, described how journalists and government officials routinely work behind the scenes to balance national security interests and press freedom.

In a deposition in the Pentagon Papers case, Frankel wrote that a “small and...

NEW YORK –- When Attorney General Eric Holder took reporters' questions Tuesday afternoon, several asked about the Justice Department’s sweeping seizure of Associated Press phone records, a move condemned by prominent journalists, media outlets and civil liberties advocates.

New York Times reporter...

In ABC News' blockbuster story Friday on the shifting Benghazi talking points, chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl wrote that his network had "reviewed" White House emails referenced in the article.

By describing White House emails as having been "reviewed by ABC News," the reader would understandably assume...

NEW YORK –- Associated Press Washington bureau chief Sally Buzbee was among the journalists targeted in the Justice Department's sweeping seizure of phone records that has drawn widespread condemnation from members of the media and free speech advocates, an AP spokeswoman confirmed to The Huffington Post.

NEW YORK –- The Associated Press revealed Monday that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of reporter and editor phone records from the spring of 2012, the latest and most illustrative example of the Obama administration's unprecedented war on leaks.

AP president and chief executive officer Gary...

NEW YORK -– At a Monday news conference, AP reporter Julie Pace asked President Barack Obama for his response to an emerging scandal over the IRS disproportionately targeting tea party groups. The story broke into the mainstream on Friday, gained traction over the weekend and on...

NEW YORK -– The Newseum announced Monday that it will not honor two cameramen killed while working for Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV, reversing a Friday decision to include them on a memorial for fallen journalists following pressure from conservative media outlets and organizations supporting Israel.

“Serious questions have been...

NEW YORK -- The Newseum announced Friday that it will continue with plans to honor two Hamas-linked Palestinian journalists killed during Israeli airstrikes last November, despite criticism from conservative outlets and a pro-Israel think tank over adding the names to the museum's Journalists Memorial.

On Monday,...

NEW YORK –- Politico announced Thursday that the Beltway-based political news site is going to experiment with a metered subscription model in a half-dozen states and abroad to find out if readers will pay for the online publication.

Politico already has a subscription service focused on more wonky policy...

NEW YORK –- As the world watched the Green Movement protests erupt following Iran’s disputed 2009 presidential election, the regime responded by brutally cracking down on journalists and opposition figures.

Joel Simon, the executive director for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said during a panel discussion Wednesday night that...

NEW YORK –- The CIA on Tuesday selected a man to become the agency's next director of the National Clandestine Service, a key position that involves overseeing spy operations around the world, over the woman currently serving in the role on an acting basis.

News organizations acknowledged on...

BuzzFeed hired Reuters' Peter Lauria in March to launch a new business section and added Bloomberg's Sapna Maheshwari a few weeks later.

Now the site is continuing to expand and has added reporters Matthew Lynley, of the Wall Street Journal, and Mariah Summers, of the Financial Times...

NEW YORK – On Sunday’s “Reliable Sources,” CNN host and media critic Howard Kurtz apologized for falsely claiming that NBA player Jason Collins didn’t reveal that he was once engaged to a woman when coming out last week in Sports Illustrated.

The since-retracted Daily Beast...

NEW YORK –- On CBS, Dan Rather called the Mobro barge “the most-watched load of garbage in the memory of man." Over on NBC, Tom Brokaw described how the “homeless garbage barge” from Islip, N.Y., was refused entry in North Carolina, while a network colleague said it had been "chased...