The Guardian

Journalist Won't Be Prosecuted Over Phone Hacking Reporting

Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012

LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - UK prosecutors investigating a phone-hacking scandal at a Rupert Murdoch tabloid have decided not to char...

Best Damien Hirst Burns

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.28.2012

This week White Cube Gallery exhibited a new collection of paintings by Damien Hirst entitled "Two Weeks One Summer." To say the exhibition was not we...

Robert Schwartzman's "Second Chances" Video Premiere, Plus Chatting With Trevor Rabin

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.11.2012

Mike Ragogna

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10 Key Takeaways From The Guardian's Activate Summit 2012

Craig Kanalley | Posted 05.04.2012

Craig Kanalley

There were a number of interesting insights shared at the event, held at The Paley Center for Media, but for those who missed it and are crunched for time, here are 10 key takeaways for the news business.

New Media and Tech Winning the Viral News War

Danny Whatmough | Posted 05.06.2012

Danny Whatmough

While Twitter certainly has a strong technology bias, Facebook is much more representative of the population. And it's therefore interesting to note that the sharing of news isn't quite as widespread as some might imagine.

Do We Do It To Ourselves?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 03.13.2012

Barbara & Shannon Kelley

An ugly little thought crept in: It's not just men who are responsible for our objectification. You have to wonder if we're sometimes responsible for our own misrepresentation.

Data Journalism: Facts Are Sacred

Pablo Mancini | Posted 02.26.2012

Pablo Mancini

Simon Rogers claims that data journalism is here to stay, because it is a standard of the industry and because, in spite of the changes it promotes and demands, at the end of the day it is all about making what we have always done: storytelling.

Who Is Your 'Woman Of The Year'?

Posted 12.22.2011

'Women of the Year' lists are funny things. Obviously, any superlative list is highly subjective, and there's no set guidelines for what to value most...

Egypt's Elections: Owning the Revolution

Eunice Roque | Posted 01.29.2012

Eunice Roque

For Egyptians, Tunisians, and anyone who has ever experienced life under a dictatorship, the sight of people lining up to vote is cause for jubilation and the most reassuring sign that the revolution is working.

Debating Press Freedom in Egypt, and Everywhere Else

Maurice Chammah | Posted 01.16.2012

Maurice Chammah

Freedom is not condensible. It's a complex mixture of history and the personal experiences of journalists themselves, who in countries both "free" and "not free" exercise varying degrees of self-censorship for varying reasons.

Murdoch's Wife Gives First Interview Since 'Pie' Incident

The Guardian | Posted 01.12.2012

Wendi Deng Murdoch cuts a dainty figure. Four months after she made headlines around the world coming to the defence of her husband, Rupert, as he wa...

The Guardian's US Editor: American Website Is For The 'Internationalist' Yank

Capital New York | Azi Paybarah | Posted 12.13.2011

One morning just a day or two into the new year of 2011, Janine Gibson was curled up on a couch in Soho, where she'd been staying for a winter vacatio...

Enemy Of The State. How A Guardian Reporter Became The Journalist Russia Hated

The Guardian | Luke Harding | Posted 11.29.2011

There could be no doubt: someone had broken into my flat. Three months after arriving in Russia as the Guardian's new Moscow bureau chief, I returned ...

UK Police Back Off The Guardian

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 11.20.2011

LONDON — London's police force said Tuesday it was dropping a demand that The Guardian newspaper reveal the confidential sources for its stories...

UK Government Pressured To Block Police Move Against Guardian

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 11.19.2011

British attorney general Dominic Grieve is facing mounting pressure to block controversial attempts by the London police to force journalists to revea...

Scotland Yard's Unprecedented Attack On Journalistic Freedom In Phone Hacking Case

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 11.16.2011

British police are trying to force the Guardian newspaper to reveal the confidential sources that allowed it to break a crucial story in the phone hac...

Johann's Industry Must be Judged Equally Guilty

Mark Donne | Posted 11.15.2011

Mark Donne

Reporters and commentators writing on issues including social deprivation and inequality who have lived and breathed social deprivation and inequality; good heavens, what would that look like?

Damien Hirst's Mythical Creatures Appear At Chatsworth House

The Guardian | Mark Brown, Arts Correspondent | Posted 11.09.2011

After sharks, sheep and cows in formaldehyde, Damien Hirst is moving on to mythical creatures, and while they may be unpickled, they are still not qui...

Are UK Cops Now Criminalizing Good Journalism?

guardian.co.uk | Dan Sabbagh | Posted 11.07.2011

A Guardian journalist has been questioned by police officers investigating alleged leaks of information from Operation Weeting, the police team pursui...

Hi. I'm Hacking. And I Deserve an Award

MP Nunan | Posted 11.06.2011

MP Nunan

Hi. I'm Hacking. Not Hacking Cough. Not Hack's License. Those are common mistakes. I'm just Hacking. My full name, really, is, "Using Illicit Means to Access Private Information With a Computer," but I go by Hacking for short.

Joshua Hersh

WikiLeaks Releases Entire Cache Of Secret Diplomatic Cables

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 11.02.2011

Less than a year after they began distributing private government documents to select media outlets, WikiLeaks has published its entire collection of ...

WikiLeaks Accuses The Guardian Of Major Security Breach

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 11.01.2011

The Guardian and WikiLeaks are embroiled in another row, this time over the leaking of hundreds of thousands of highly sensitive secret cables. WikiLe...

WikiLeaks: Breach Has Exposed Unredacted U.S. Cables

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 10.31.2011

LONDON — Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Thursday that its massive archive of unredacted U.S. State Department cables had been exposed in a se...

Why Google's Eric Schmidt Is Only Partly Right About Science & Tech Education

Ewan McIntosh | Posted 10.30.2011

Ewan McIntosh

It's a shame that Eric Schmidt he didn't Google a little more on the education system of the country in which he was speaking. Scotland.

'Turn Of The Screw' Is An Online Hit

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 10.22.2011

Even if you couldn't make it to England for the Glyndebourne Festival this summer, you can watch a full opera streamed from the site right at home. ...