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The Scandal Beat

Does the press’s obsession with rule-breaking get in the way of real reform of college sports?

n December, Ohio State University suspended five of its football players for violating the rules governing intercollegiate athletics by... More

News for the World

A proposal for a globalized era: an American World Service

would be surprised if in future decades, people did not say that the end of the twentieth century and... More

Big Bird to the Rescue?

Public television remains largely indifferent to calls to boost serious news coverage

epresentative Earl Blumenauer stood before a microphone outside the Capitol building in February to make a passionate plea for continued... More

The Future of Public Television

Can Public Television News Step Up?

elevision has long been our most popular news medium, the format that unites us and brings the world to our... More

Signal and Noise

Trying to follow global news in America, a newcomer finds that something is missing

f you wished to see a vivid illustration of how the broadcast news media in the US are perceived in... More

Breathing Room

Toward a new Arab media

efore there was Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or even Al Jazeera, there was Hama, Syria. It was 1982 and an... More

English Lesson

The moment has arrived for Al Jazeera English, except in the US

[This is a sidebar article to the May/June 2011 cover story, "Breathing Room: Toward a new Arab media," which you... More

Tested

Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement

leven New York City education reporters were huddling on e-mail last October 20, musing over ways to collectively pry... More

Crossfire in Kandahar

Afghanistan’s new journalists navigate an ambiguous war

ne hot night in September, less than a week after Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, soldiers from NATO’s International Security Assistance Force... More

Reboot

An open letter to the FCC about a media policy for the digital age

Editor's Note: On June 9, 2011, the FCC's Future of Media Project released a report on the state of local... More

The Hamster Wheel

Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere

“Newsrooms have shrunk by 25% in three years.” —Project for Excellence in Journalism, “State of the News Media 2010” “A... More

A Second Chance

How mobile devices can absolve journalism of its original sin: giving away online content

Talk to people who are into mobile reading devices like the Kindle and the iPad, and a scene from... More

Look at Me!

A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding

hen I was nineteen and chose to accept the creeping suspicion that I would turn out to be a writer... More

Dumb Like a Fox

Fox News isn’t part of the GOP; it has simply (and shamelessly) mastered the confines of cable

ast December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health... More

Hot Air

Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change?

he small makeup room off the main floor of KUSI's studios, in a suburban canyon on the north end of... More

Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism

“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”

‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’

Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says

If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?

The story behind one of the best business models in the country

What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas

“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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