I'm not saying we shouldn't be interested in naked people. That's a biological impulse over which we have no control. Boobs are what kept us alive for the first couple years of our lives.
Posted 12.07.2009 | Media
From a boy not in a balloon, to the inauguration of the nation's 44th president, 2009 saw big and not so big stories dominate airwaves and front pages...
David Nordfors | Posted 12.07.2009 | Media
Journalists committed to the truth can link to important sources, but news organizations have never let that happen. What are the business models for the principles of journalism?
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
The first thing you do in a war is control and take out your enemy's communication system. Our news has been taken over by entertainment, propaganda and massive corporations. We need to to take back the media.
Jackson Williams | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
A. H. Belo has just announced in an internal memo that some "section editors" (news editors) at all of the company's papers, will now report directly to the corporate team of "sales managers."
Will Schwartz | Posted 12.02.2009 | New York
There's a good chance we're on the verge of entering a new financial era in New York State. An era that will be defined by the cutting, gutting, and slashing of our social services.
Maegan Carberry | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media
In some ways this is an exciting egalitarian victory for the kids in Kansas who could achieve with a blog from a Wal Mart parking lot what Tina Brown and Graydon Carter built on glossy pages in the hallowed halls of heroic skyscapers.
Alexander Howard | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
The traditional "high priests of journalism" -- newspaper and magazine editors -- controlled what was covered. No more, or at least not in online news.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media
Rupert Murdoch brought a strong message for members of Congress: Don't even think about bailing out journalism with taxpayer money! And then, Murdoch delivered a whole bunch of other, decidedly mixed messages!
Joel Arquillos | Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact
When a student like Cesar Guajardo takes the initiative to write about something he feels very passionate about, 826LA is there to help him develop his ability to express his ideas clearly and confidently.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
The new paths to media success are still being charted, and much remains uncertain. But this much is clear: we can't use an analog map and expect to find our way in a digital world.
Bryan Monroe | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago
This week, the FTC will be convening a hearing looking at "How Will Journalism Survive The Internet." I am going to talk about how white the Web is, and the threat that represents to journalism for our diverse nation.
Rep. Brad Miller | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
The financial crisis is a result of a failure of every institution of our democracy. Regulators failed. Congress failed. And the financial press failed abysmally. Mark was an exception.
Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Government employees sent more than 500,000 text pager messages In the hours before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At 3 a.m. (...
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
Twelve journalists in the southern Philippines have been slaughtered, in what will surely be remembered as the worst single day in the history of journalism.
Peter M. Shane | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
What would it be like to organize an entire college or university education around the idea of journalism?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?
Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
Donors tend to feel empowered after the donation. Donating seems to create a sense of belonging to the community, and the donors also feel a sense of participation in the journalistic process.
Lee Schneider | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media
When I was working at NBC and FOX News and ABC, we had helicopters, satellite uplinks, and video crews all over the world. Yet today, there are journalists doing much more with a whole lot less.
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Travel writing is mostly bad. It's partly the fault of the form. Sometimes, quality sneaks in. And every so often the glossies still let Paul Theroux into the works so as to keep their bonafides burnished.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Spencer Ackerman is a friend of mine and a reporter whose expertise and ecumenical fairness are resources I've come to trust. He's also demonstrated ...
Nat Benchley | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York
Anywhere there is printing these days (ink or pixels), you will find references to the Algonquin Round Table. So, what is it with the adulation of a bunch of "tipsy quipsters"?
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago
Cook County prosecutors continue their relentless attempt to discredit the work of the students of the Medill Innocence Project in their efforts to exonerate Anthony McKinney.
Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
New media guru Jeff Jarvis calls it the 'Holy Grail.' Michael Gluckstadt's Fast Company feature questioned its '$100 Billion Potential.' So what does ...
Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."
Whitney Cummings | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles