Adam Hochberg, Bill Krueger, Steve Myers and Latoya Peterson explain the emerging ways that information is created and consumed, from the Fourth Estate to the Fifth Estate.
Terrible events such as yesterday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon have always meant “all hands on deck” for news organizations, with staffers pulled off their regular beats to contribute.
But the endpoint of the newsgathering and reporting is no longer … Read more
The media question of the day is why the Philadelphia trial of Kermit Gosnell is not garnering national media attention.
Gosnell is a Philadelphia doctor on trial for murder for performing late-term abortions that resulted in living babies that he … Read more
When reporters want my advice about whether to grant a source anonymity, this is the question I ask them: Is your story significant enough that you’re willing to spend six months in jail?
When they’re working on a substantial story, … Read more
A little more than a year ago, BuzzFeed made the leap into the realm of serious journalism. It hired some known journalists and a lot more hungry young writers, expanded its verticals, and announced a plan to create serious content … Read more
Momentum is building against CNN for clumsy things anchors said about the teenagers convicted of rape in Steubenville, Ohio.
It’s a misplaced anger that will do nothing but further confuse the public about issues of rape and sexual assault, particularly … Read more
A photo essay vividly documenting domestic assault lit up the Internet this week after Time Magazine published it as part of its LightBox series.
Ohio University graduate student Sara Lewkowicz didn’t set out to take pictures of domestic violence. Instead, … Read more
Dave Itzkoff of the NYTimes asked me last week to look at a 30-second video of a cute little pig rescuing a cute little bleating goat that was somehow trapped in a pond.
My first reaction was: fake. Yet several … Read more
Three and half years ago, the Seattle-Tacoma area was paralyzed as police searched for a cop-killer, much like greater Los Angeles this past week. On a Sunday morning in 2009, a gunman walked into a coffeshop in Parkland, Wa., … Read more
Facebook pages are springing up in support of Christopher Jordan Dorner, the former Los Angeles cop now wanted for three murders and the subject of a massive manhunt in California. They raise interesting challenges as journalists in Southern California … Read more
The Internet blew up with righteous criticism of the New York Post for publishing a photo of a man about to be crushed by a subway train and the photographer who took that picture.
Any one of us could be … Read more