I've been wondering lately what it would be like to have just arrived on earth from another planet and turn on CNN for the first time. What would these intergalactic travelers conclude about life on earth?
Noah Kass | Posted 05.08.2012
The news has become noise, massive chatter that's transmitted at lightning speed. Here are a few tips to tune out the drone and listen to only what's essential.
Garrett Goodman | Posted 04.20.2012
The research of authors Nicola Bruno and Dr. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen suggests that being successful in the online news world is as challenging for the smaller, and often more agile, start-ups as it is for the major media incumbents.
David Johnson | Posted 04.11.2012
As news media grapples with shifting audiences and new competition for attention, headlines need to grab attention to draw page views. But they must also be clear, truthful and accurate.
Eric Alterman | Posted 05.23.2012
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets -- without the hope for "next year."
Michael_Young | Posted 04.16.2012
Hilarious and insightful, Alan Murray gives us his take on the future of news, telling a few stories about the development of the WSJ app and what it feels like to be Twitter famous along the way.
Mastin Kipp | Posted 03.14.2012
If I was letting the news media paint my opinion of the world, my life would probably suck. Crazy things do happen in the world every day, but it is up to us to apply the meaning to the events.
Stuart Muszynski | Posted 12.05.2011
How can we reclaim civility, decency and harmony when they are at best unnoticed or worse, ignored? As we debate our nation's future, we need the news media to ask the hard questions, not the sensational ones.
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 10.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- A White House photographer was allowed to take and widely distribute a photo from the ceremony Tuesday for the return of the remains of ...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.31.2011
I have found it ironic and frustrating that environmentalists generally haven't included the necessary alarm about and investigation into the human climate of divisiveness, distraction and denial.
Diane Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
In Israel earlier this month, my graduate journalism class and I repeatedly confronted a basic question: What is news and by whose authority is it defined?
Sen. Chris Coons | Posted 05.25.2011
There's a certain formula that goes into a speech like the one I gave Wednesday night in my comedic debut at the Washington Press Club Foundation's Congressional Dinner.
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
While not a conventional news organization, Denver-based Examiner.com may be the world's largest by the sheer size of its writing stable and the amo...
Priscilla Warner | Posted 11.17.2011
I've learned to let thoughts and emotions pass through my mind like clouds while I meditate. Surely I can do the same with news items.
Michael W. Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011
With the struggles of many old-line news media, it's easy to forget how important real reporting is to informing citizens and defeating the forces of secrecy and propaganda.
Julie Gray | Posted 05.25.2011
No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.
David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011
The human risk perception system evolved to deal with simple dangers, like wolves and bad guys with clubs and the dark, not complex long-term threats involved in the unsustainable way we live on the planet.
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 05.25.2011
Media critic Howard Kurtz lamented "journalism as blood sport" guilty of "hyper-partisanship." Both sides are guilty, but the sensible middle that Kurtz celebrates is really the center-right. What a distortion.
Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism | Posted 05.25.2011
Take a look as some leading media-makers debate coverage of human trafficking. What hinders good reporting on human trafficking? What do journalists fear when they report on slaves and slavery?
Dan Reimold | Posted 05.25.2011
College media censorship has a lot in common with Mystique. The mutant supervillain associated with the X-Men is best known for her duplicitous shape-shifting aimed at doing harm.
Joe Gandelman | Posted 05.25.2011
"A defining moment..." A phrase as cringe worthy as chalk scratching a blackboard. So who determines a "defining" moment? Today the phrase is trotted out by anyone who feels self-important.
David Ropeik | Posted 11.17.2011
Sooner or later, the leak will stop and we'll move on. It makes sense to worry most about what threatens you now, but it's a lousy way to assess the risks we really face.
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
Trust is required for media to survive. There's a window of opportunity now for restoring trust, but it won't last forever. The winners will be serious about fact checking.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011
We're living in a transition stage -- a very exciting time in which the "me" in "media" continually and more effectively flexes its muscles. The media's resurrection depends on its understanding of that reality. Not on the shiny, new iPad.
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 05.25.2011
CNN, once a "respected name in news," has hired RedState blogger Erick Erickson as a so-called "political contributor," desperately trying to pull up its ratings by turning into Fox News Lite.
Dr. Cheryl Pappas | Posted 05.21.2012