The real issue with the language of the proposed New York shield law is less the law per se than placing a definition of a journalist on the books.
Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Alex Jones writes that the implosion of the business model for traditional media is creating a vacuum in the type of news gathering, analysis or revelatory investigation which is in the public interest.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
This is going out to the end of a very long limb, but contrary to the rumblings in progressive think tanks, let's suggest that AFRICOM must be given a chance in eastern Congo.
Beth Arnold | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
With yet another round of Dick Cheney disinformation saturating the airwaves, it boggles the mind how the Bush administration controlled the American conversation in the media for so many years.
HuffPost Citizen Journalists | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Over 2,500 HuffPost citizen journalists have helped provide comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos...
HuffPost Citizen Journalists | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
Over 2,500 HuffPost citizen journalists have helped provide comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos...
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
America's housing crisis has rocked the economy and continues to worsen, with tens of thousands of people facing foreclosure each week. The dialogue i...
Pauline Millard | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
I would worry about what these sites said about me and how they were monitored. Users post anonymously, and there are no checks and balances to investigate if any of the claims are valid.
Walter Isaacson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
I hope that 2009 will be the year when creators of valuable content start charging and readers begin paying for the journalism they want.
Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media
In March 2008, I asked readers of HuffPost to reach out to reporters and bloggers to help tell the story of Turk Sabri Bogday, who at the time faced unjust execution in Saudi Arabia.
Ari Herzog | Posted 02.25.2009 | Media
Twitter is a subset of new media. Your evening news and morning papers aren't quite there, lacking internet technologies, commenting, and synchronous interactivity.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 02.05.2009 | Media
We need a press powerful enough to rival other power centers, like government and the corporate state. And we desperately need a new economic structure to save newspapers.
Rob Kall | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media
Investigative journalism is at risk. And investigative reporting is not something that can be outsourced or depend upon other countries' workers to do properly.
Amanda Michel | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home
At HuffPost's OffTheBus, our specialty is covering the presidential campaign in new and exciting ways by having people on the ground write about their...
Amanda Michel | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home
The Obama campaign is holding public Democratic Party platform meetings across the country over the next two weeks. Attend your local meeting and send us a report on the effectiveness of the campaign.
Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media
NEW YORK -- Citizen journalists, MySpace and NBC News want you to help cover this summer's political conventions. MySpace, NBC News and MSNBC.com are...
Rachel Sterne | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
At an Indianapolis press conference, Obama struggled to draw a clear distinction for voters between his policies and those of Hillary Clinton. "It's tough," he said, "a lot of our differences get blurred."
Christine Escobar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
The value in the citizen journalist's account comes partly as a result of its being free. They are beholden to no one. They cover and opine and observe subjects but from their own perspective.
Pam Spaulding | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media