Database may uncover conflicts of interest for TV doctors January 23, 2015 By Paul D. Thacker Free lunches, paid speaking gigs & free drug samples are often not disclosed by media physicians
21st-century censorship January 5, 2015 By Philip Bennett and Moises Naim Governments around the world are using stealthy strategies to manipulate the media
PR agencies can pay for journalist ‘dossiers’ January 5, 2015 By Chris Ip Some obscure profiles from NewsBios get factchecked
Jesse Brown punctures Canada’s media bubble January 5, 2015 By Simon Liem The independent journalist uses his website and podcast to break stories that might otherwise go unpublished
Fox News’ open-door policy January 5, 2015 By David Uberti The cable giant lets some of its contributors leave and return for the sake of politics
Why is ‘burgeoning’ used in so many news articles? January 5, 2015 By Merrill Perlman It’s a word rarely said aloud
The New York Times‘ changing racial labels January 5, 2015 By Lene Bech Sillesen Using the paper’s Chronicle tool, a linguistics student examines how various words were used in history
Understanding ‘the right to be forgotten’ January 5, 2015 By Lene Bech Sillesen Here’s a look at what Google did and didn’t remove
The importance of protecting freelancers January 5, 2015 By Alexis Sobel Fitts James Foley’s murder thrust GlobalPost into the middle of an industry-wide debate about the ethics of working with the inexperienced, poorly paid freelancers who increasingly cover the world’s wars
Confronting a digital tug-of-war January 5, 2015 By Elizabeth Spayd How to think about censorship in the digital age; what to do about the plight of inexperienced freelancers at the front
Boosting Bloomberg’s ‘shares’ January 5, 2015 By Christopher Massie Joe Weisenthal on what he learned at Business Insider, his love for charts, and his new job
A prominent gathering in Georgetown January 5, 2015 By James Boylan Gregg Herken’s new book suggests journalists got cozy with influential individuals during the Cold War
How postmodernism destroyed journalism January 5, 2015 By Julia M. Klein A review of Scott Timberg’s new book, Culture Crash
Why it pays to work the fringes January 5, 2015 By Vanessa M. Gezari Photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s intimate account of "life and love in war"
Dreaming of Michael Lewis January 5, 2015 By Mimi Swartz The New New Thing could have aged poorly, but it endures as an example of the author at his understated best
Leaving Kolkata January 5, 2015 By Christie Chisholm Photographer Ashok Sinha captures the tiny and disappearing Jewish community in his hometown
Jill Abramson on putting the public interest first December 22, 2014 By Jill Abramson Defying the White House, from the Pentagon Papers to Snowden
Why podcasts make sense December 18, 2014 By The Editors Serial‘s popularity brings mass attention to the medium
Mathias Döpfner, digital counterrevolutionary November 20, 2014 By Corey Pein Axel Springer chief predicts US will eventually join Europe in the fight against the dominance of Google, Facebook, and other tech titans
War and conspiracy October 31, 2014 By James Boylan Molly Guptill Manning and Kati Marton’s latest books reviewed
Who’s hosted Meet the Press? October 31, 2014 By David Uberti Meet some anchors who sat in the iconic desk
Chuck Todd’s Obama book says more about the author than it does about the president October 31, 2014 By Elbert Ventura ‘The Stranger’ underscores a broader problem with the way we cover politics
Mana Neyestani reflects in ‘An Iranian Metamorphosis’ October 31, 2014 By Chris Ip The political cartoonist details his struggles in graphic-novel memoir
Embedding with a homeless family October 31, 2014 By Christie Chisholm Joe Amon of The Denver Post talks about his experience
Letters to the editor October 31, 2014 By The Editors Readers weigh in on the September/October issue