NEW YORK -– Before The Daily Beast fired Howard Kurtz on Thursday, newsroom staffers had been wondering why their Washington bureau chief appeared t...

NEW YORK -- Howard Kurtz, the Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, has been regularly contributing to, and heavily promoting, a l...

Here they come, all the critics mocking the news coverage of Hurricane Irene, the storm that seems to have made some cynics think it was all about politics and Nielsen ratings.

If we can't rely on news institutions to rationally explain the complicated (and extremely important) issues of the day in a way that will reach people, than why do we need them at all?

Meghan McCain has seemingly been everywhere lately — Rachel Maddow, The Daily Beast, Fox & Friends, Twitter... One place she didn't show, howev...

The notion that we old media institutions are still the big boys, so much more important and heftier than these pesky digital newcomers sounds familiar: we thought the same thing about CraigsList.

In terms of how the press has treated the last two new presidents, there's the Democratic model (i.e. overly hostile), and the Republican model (overly docile).

So big cheese media critic Howard Kurtz has spoken: The business media is partly to blame for our economic crisis. "As in the savings-and-loan scand...

Howard Kurtz is the self-styled prince of American media reporters, a writing, blogging, book-writing machine who has covered the press for the Washin...

ABC's Martha Raddatz was taping a stand-up report in Islamabad last week when a Pakistani police officer grabbed the arm of a top lawyer organizing an...