On the Media

In late July, Facebook reached another milestone, surpassing 500 million users. In reporting his recent book, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, David Kirkpatrick received unprecedented access to the comp...
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The Death of the Internet, the misnamed "Ground Zero Mosque," and breaking up over new media.
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What's the future of journalism? Amidst countless conferences, anxious op-eds and much hand-wringing, longtime journalist Loren Ghiglione believes he might have found some answers in an unlikely place - science fiction. Despite his initial disdain for...
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Israeli director Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished" is a movie about a movie. It's a documentary about the Nazi propaganda footage known as "Das Ghetto," shot in the walled-off Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of 1942. Hersonski says that in a world satur...
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We all know that Orson Welles drew his inspiration for the film “Citizen Kane” from the life of William Randolph Hearst. But over time, the character called Kane has become so conflated with the man named Hearst that we tend to think of the movie a...
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When the atomic bomb exploded over the port city of Nagasaki, Japan in the late morning of August 9th, 1945, tens of thousands of civilian Japanese died immediately. By October, many thousands more were dying of a mysterious disease, but journalists we...
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Despite Hollywood's appetite for drama, it has almost never depicted one particularly epochal moment in U.S. history: the dropping of the atomic bomb. Nation magazine contributor Greg Mitchell explains how the first film about the bomb, in 1947, set th...
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This week saw yet another sally in the battle over net neutrality. Verizon and Google jointly proposed that wired access to the internet remain open and as is, while mobile access ... well, it's complicated. And so we offer this musical allegory to hel...
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A look at net neutrality and what we've learned about the reporting of the dropping of the atomic bomb, 65 years later.
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Al Jazeera reaches hundreds of millions of homes around the world, in spite of facing fierce opposition by the governments of the Middle East and the United States. Wadah Khanfar, Director General of Al Jazeera, explains how the organization continues ...
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