Media

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina wreaked profound devastation on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The Times-Picayune and other outlets were praised for their coverage of the aftermath, but with countless government meetings and public forums to cover, ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has produced a new series of public service announcements that seek to show that American Muslims were also victims of the September 11th attacks. CAIR's Legislative Director Corey Saylor says the PSA's are a r...

While controversy over "Burn a Koran Day" reached a boiling point in America this week, much of the rest of the world has been following the proposed stunt for over a month. Political science professor and Foreign Policy blogger Marc Lynch says that th...

Florida pastor Terry Jones organized what he called “International Burn a Koran Day,” scheduled to take place on September 11th. And then the media paid attention. Brooke considers the consequences.

On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and two other groups filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over its suspicionless border searches of electronic devices. While the government considers its authority to search laptops...

Koran burning, laptop searching and broadcast emoting

Koran burning, laptop searching and broadcast emoting

If you felt a sense of déjà vu when reading about the latest round of Israeli/Palestinian peace talks this week, you were not alone. The situation seems intractable but the reporting too often follows a well-worn template. JJ Goldberg, senior columni...

Throughout the war in Iraq foreign journalists have relied heavily on fixers, the local feet on the ground who translate, find sources and help provide safety. Though many have since left the country, for fear that their work with Western media has mad...

August was the 175th anniversary of the New York Sun’s Great Moon Hoax, when Richard Adams Locke created a sensation by writing a series of satirical articles, taken seriously by the public, about life on the moon. Matthew Goodman, author of The Sun ...

Earlier this week, Washington Post sports writer Mike Wise sent a deliberately false tweet about Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to prove to his audience that journalists will happily reprint rumors without confirming their veracity....

From the Million Man March to the Obama Inauguration to Glenn Beck’s recent “Restoring Honor” rally, estimating the size of a crowd is both scientifically difficult and politically fraught. ASU professor Steve Doig, Washington Post editor Dan Kea...