"I sat in my bed and stared blankly." "My nerves were overwhelmed." "I had a raised heart rate, increased anxiety and was panicking." "It felt as though I was being tortured." "Emptiness overwhelmed me."

How would you feel if you had to go without media for 24 hours? A thousand...

Imagine you are Walter Isaacson.

You are the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, "a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC," (according to its own website). You were previously the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. You...

with Megan E. Fromm

If you have to ask, it's probably time to revisit your high school journalism class. Oh, sorry. You can't. It's been eliminated.

As the world media debates whether Julian Assange is a cyber-terrorist or the next Daniel Ellsberg, and the U.S. government scrambles...

Today another world record is in the bag for Iraq. This time, it's the country to go the longest - 208 days - between holding a parliamentary election and forming a government. (The Dutch were the previous record holders, dating back to 1977 when attempts to...

Bling is once again in the news. Blood diamonds, of course, and the stories are all the more sensational for featuring a supermodel and one of the world's most heinous leaders.

It's hard to know how to understand what has been going through the mind of supermodel Naomi Campbell...

Want insight into your relationship with your son or daughter at college?

Take a look at 24 Hours: Unplugged, a new study out today about how 18-22 year olds use media.

The research from the International Center for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) concludes that most...

I used to live in Boston, and as anyone from Bahsten will tell you, the iPad is "wicked fast." But what I'm increasingly thinking about is how great the tablet will be for "slow journalism."

By now most folks have heard of "slow food": the movement that...

Ok, hands-down, the hottest tech story of the day (month? year?) was Steve Jobs' iPad roll-out demonstration. The traffic from all those in the tech world who couldn't get in to see the show in person practically shut down the seemingly zillion live blogs that were covering the rock-star-ish event....

Today's your last chance to win a million bucks. The clock is ticking.

Don't throw your money away on a lottery ticket. Instead just write, shoot and submit a Super Bowl XLIV commercial for Doritos by midnight central time today (Monday, November 9th.)

If you make...

The online world as Americans know it is about to change. Big time.

The decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin alphabets, taken by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN), the international organization that oversees Internet domain names, is not just...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - After sending a text message to say "I'm fine," what do you tell family, friends and colleagues back home about the place you're in that has just been struck by a suicide bomb that has made front-page news around the world?

I'm puzzled about what to say...

PARIS - The ladies bathroom on the 13th floor of UNESCO's building in Paris has the best view of any restroom in the world. As you clean and dry your hands (the stalls are around the corner), your back is to a large picture window that looks over the rooftops...

"Journalists of your generation," said British playwright Tom Stoppard yesterday to a roomful of students gathered at the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change, "very often and quite rightly are considering things you'd like to change in the world -- if possible, by Tuesday. You could hardly...

It's not just Iran. Getting news out of countries in the throes of political turmoil has always been dicey.

And getting the news out has often turned on using the most recent technology to thwart the authorities.

Recall during the Tiananmen protests in 1989 the exchanges of faxes...

Or otherwise known as How Iran is Reframing Islam.

Last night, for the fifth straight evening, those protesting the Iranian election went to the rooftops of Tehran to shout "Allah O Akbar!" The cries of "God is great! God is great! God is great!" echoed across the city--and have been...

It's hard to know what to be more scared of these days: the Taliban gaining hold of loose nukes in Pakistan, commuting next to someone who looks a little feverish and has a persistent cough, answering a Craigslist ad posted by a med student, or losing one's job.

The web is buzzing about The Washingtonian magazine's choice to put a paparazzi photo of a buff and shirtless President Obama on the cover of its May issue.

The frenzy of comments about The Washingtonian's decision are running across the gamut, from a...

Consider a few of the most viral stories in the US media the past several weeks: Britain's Got Talent frowsy-haired singing phenom Susan Boyle, the toned arms and zeitgeist fashion sense of Michelle Obama, and Bo, the bouncy First Puppy.

If over 19 million people on YouTube have...

with Eric Newton

The G-20 leaders are looking to save the world. What are the levers to get us out of the global financial crisis? They are not just fiscal. Reforming the US education system is critical to the long-term health of the US economy, said Obama in a policy...