Behind the News

Learning from Our Mistakes

Journalists must embrace their errors in order to avoid them in the future

By Craig Silverman   Oct 30, 2009 at 11:16 AM

They were guaranteed to fail. Participants in a psychological study were asked trivia questions and told to offer their best... More

FCC Taps Waldman to Study “State of the Media”

Beliefnet founder to make policy recommendations to ensure “a vibrant media landscape”

By Megan Garber   Oct 29, 2009 at 04:14 PM

Steven Waldman, veteran journalist and co-founder of Beliefnet, has been tapped by the FCC to lead an agency-wide initiative designed... More

“Not Here This Year”

Despite numerous setbacks, National Conference of Editorial Writers goes on

By Richard Benfield   Oct 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM

The sixty-third annual convention of editorial writers could hardly have met at a worse time. Only a few days earlier,... More

Man About Town

Meet Kery Murakami, founder of the Seattle PostGlobe

By Justin Peters   Oct 27, 2009 at 01:31 PM

Kery Murakami, reluctant news entrepreneur, is the founder of the Seattle PostGlobe, a nonprofit Web startup that provides reported news... More

Speed Demons

Press-conference pranksters reopen the “speed vs. accuracy” debate

By Craig Silverman   Oct 23, 2009 at 11:22 AM

The scene that unfolded in the John Peter Zenger Room at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. earlier this... More

Howard Kurtz, Missing in Action

Fox vs. the White House: Where’s Howie?

By Michael Massing   Oct 22, 2009 at 09:18 AM

Howard Kurtz scored a coup on his CNN show “Reliable Sources” two Sundays ago when White House communications director Anita... More

‘Salon’ Saga Continues at the Post

By Greg Marx   Oct 19, 2009 at 08:51 AM

If you’ve been enjoying a weekend-induced news hiatus, you’ve missed some strange developments in the Washington Post “salon” story. Here’s... More

Balloon Boy Takes Flight

Some magazine covers that will soon be among us

By Megan Garber   Oct 16, 2009 at 05:03 PM

So the bizarre, twist-and-turn-laden balloon "flight" of six-year-old Falcon Heene yesterday Captivated The Nation…by which we mean, of course, that... More

Meet the Tilburg Checkers

Dutch journalism students help keep local media in check

By Craig Silverman   Oct 16, 2009 at 11:35 AM

If all goes as planned, sometime today a journalism student in Tilburg, Netherlands will walk into the offices of de... More

The AP: Intimations of Politico

The news cooperative declares its new focus on news that gets used

By Megan Garber   Oct 16, 2009 at 08:39 AM

Every other year, The Associated Press holds a summit to analyze pressing issues facing the company—culminating in an executive strategy... More

Postcard from Chitrakoot

In a remote part of India, female reporters crusade for rural journalism

By Betwa Sharma   Oct 15, 2009 at 06:42 PM

On a scorching afternoon in Chitrakoot, a woman named Tabassum walks into a small, sticky government hospital and sits poised... More

Iraq’s Missing Iraqis

A good book’s great flaw

By Michael Massing   Oct 14, 2009 at 01:05 PM

David Finkel’s book The Good Soldiers, about the experiences of a US Army battalion during the surge in Iraq, is... More

SEJ Accused of Protecting Gore

Filmmaker’s criticism is self-serving and wrong, however

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 12, 2009 at 11:39 AM

An independent filmmaker accused the Society of Environmental Journalists of “protecting” Al Gore on Friday after the filmmaker’s mic was... More

The New Great American Pastime

It’s fact checking

By Craig Silverman   Oct 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM

Fact checking, along with its kissing cousin “calling bullshit,” is becoming one of the great American pastimes of the Internet... More

The Most Misreported Country

And the winner is…

By Michael Massing   Oct 7, 2009 at 09:37 AM

Which country is most routinely miscovered in the U.S. press? There are clearly many candidates, but for me one stands... More