Amr Salama, an Egyptian fillmaker and a central figure in creating the alternative media universe during the revolution in Egypt, is finishing a doc...
Amr Salama, an Egyptian fillmaker and a central figure in creating the alternative media universe during the revolution in Egypt, is finishing a doc...
It's not every day that a former national security advisor recognizes you, taps you on the shoulder and apologizes for not returning your calls. But that's exactly what happened to journalist Shane Harris.
The main thing I draw from the Anthony Weiner incident is that the greater shame is in our puerile culture and how the media feeds the frenzy. On its own face their actions are ludicrous and the well-paid media honchos should be equally ashamed.
If states are the laboratories for democracy, as Thomas Jefferson famously said, towns and cities may be the Petri dishes that stress test the vitality of different species of online hubs.
A free App for the iPhone, which allows users to report and share local news developments, called Meporter launched on Tuesday in New York at the Te...
Liane Hansen got me to spill the beans to over 3 million listeners while making me feel like I was having a private conversation with a girlfriend, someone who's got my back. In an era of media hype and sensationalism, she showed me that good journalism endures.
I'm entirely sympathetic with the desire on the part of journalists and their editors to print honest and natural speech. But it seems to me that very few consumers of media realize that print interviews present unique opportunities for distortion.
Much to Reilly's and journalism purists' chagrin, writers are no longer bound by journalism's power structure. The Internet has provided a means for writers to hot-wire their way to the top through blogging.
Some who leak to the media are has-beens or wannabes who don't want to admit to the blogger/journalist/aggregator that they don't know anything about the topic under discussion.
Too many Western writers try to portray themselves as selfless, Mother Theresa-like figures who venture to an exotic and dangerous country to single-handedly save the natives.
The announcement late Sunday evening by President Obama that Osama bin Laden had been killed created extraordinary traffic for MSNBC.com, pointing to the emerging role of online video viewing in cable-connected homes.
I didn't buy a newspaper because I wanted to find out more about the operation in Pakistan. I bought it because it was tangible representation of massively important historic event, and I wanted to save it.
Gen. Boykin's disparagement of Islam is not ancient history, and he's not apologizing for it now. And he will be sharing a stage with a former vice presidential candidate who could be the next president.
With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a "great media company" in various content verticals, CEO Jim Bankoff tells Beet.TV in this interview.
Emma Larkin, a journalist from Thailand, went to Burma in the aftermath of Nargis to speak to the victims. Larkin painted a picture of towns full of rescue workers, who were trapped with no place to go.
Through the delivery of social media updates, we get news instantly. Can this help to bring about some working level of bipartisanship in Washington, D.C.?
SAN BRUNO, CA -- While YouTube is playing a unique role in providing raw video of the unrest in the Middle East to the Web, and to many of the the...
Unlike today's wars, which often unfold in open fields and urban streets under the media's glare, secrecy and national security were seen then as tools necessary to wage a war without recognizable battlefields.
To the list of photographers who have died while covering war and conflict, we must now add the names of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. It's a dangerous job they do.
I have an article in the new issue of The Forum with John Sides of George Washington University and The Monkey Cage about how reporters can use politi...