Yesterday, The Economist posted poll numbers on global attitudes towards torture, pulled from 2008 research conducted by World Public Opinion. The Ec...
John Milewski | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Do we really need to be respectful of the views of the scarily unhinged, tragically misinformed, or strategically dishonest?
Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
"Us v. them" arguments do not engage our rational reflective capacities, but instead inflame us with an exhortation to battle.
Mort Rosenblum | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
The operative part of newspaper is news. If changing tastes prefer something different, why not? But online-only options are not ready, and TV hardly takes up the slack.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
A new day has dawned, and with it another study of marriage misrepresented in the media: as always, implying that getting married results in better outcomes than it actually does.
Lysandra Ohrstrom | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
Searching for a steady reporting job or freelance work is a lot like dating. We all know the euphemisms for getting dumped, but rejection in the job market is less obvious.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
As I don't plan to wait to be allowed to open school of digital journalism in order to realize this project, I will begin it with bureaucratic and legal formality.
John Farr | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment
In the wake of the revered Walter Cronkite's passing, I've attempted to isolate the ten best movies about journalism.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment
It's been more than a month since Michael Jackson's demise and still no burial, cremation, resting place, or any manifestation of "closure" for this fallen King of Pop.
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
Foreign bureaus are easy targets as newspapers make cuts to satisfy their budgets. Maintaining bureaus is incredibly expensive. But losing the coverage is beneficial to no one.
Editor & Publisher | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
NEW YORK Six digital innovations from The New York Times have earned it the $10,000 grand prize at the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journal...
Johann Hari | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
The Slumdog Kill-ionaire is back, and he is reminding us how exhilarating fiction can be when novelists finally leave their seminar rooms and dive into the real world.
Greg Archer | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
I can't help but wonder what that solid, creative titan of a man would have thought of 21st century broadcast media (and some print media) before he passed on.
Stephen Wilkes | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
It was on this day, the 20th of March in the spring of 1974, that the legendary Walter Cronkite granted us our first interview and a life changing experience.
News24 | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
Geneva - Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
The Associated Press is moving ahead with plans for a system to detect unlicensed use of its content and potentially create new ways for the 163-year-...
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
Walter Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" because he held as sacred his commitment to journalism that rigorously distinguished professional objectivity from personal opinion.
Tim Berry | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
Back in the old days, editors decided what was news, not advertisers and not readers. There was this concept called "news values."
Eric Deggans | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home
Why did the Today show -- by far TV's most-watched morning show -- spend its first segment this morning discussing what the president said about the arrest of a black scholar in Cambridge, Mass.?
Tim Berry | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media
You don't have to appear in print to be a journalist; but you do have to have a code of conduct.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
As we embrace Twitter and the blog, we must also be committed to forging a new pathway to the truth and the hard work of uncovering the information necessary to sustain a healthy democracy.
Norman Solomon | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
Despite the posthumous praise for Cronkite's February 1968 telecast that dubbed the war "a stalemate," the facts show that the broadcast came only after Cronkite's protracted support for the war.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media
Cronkite heralded an age that ha fallen by the wayside for ratings. The bitter irony is that the issues are as compelling today as they were fifty years ago, and we hunger for information and commentary that we can trust.
Don McNay | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media
Although I am sure that Walter Cronkite had friends in politics, he did not give money to political campaigns or actively support candidates. I won't either.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics