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Ed Madison: What Does Media Innovation Really Look Like?

Many established journalists are now challenged to learn the business side of media. It's unfamiliar, often resisted -- and yet a necessary evolution of the profession.

Art Brodsky: The Jack Nicholson Answer to Hollywood Moguls on SOPA and PIPA: ‘You Can’t Handle the Truth’

This is too important to hand over law making to one industry, as Congress did in the case of these bills. Too much is at stake to try to rework the bills in a slapdash manner, behind closed doors. That's the truth.

Art Brodsky: The Jack Nicholson Answer to Hollywood Moguls on SOPA and PIPA: ‘You Can’t Handle the Truth’

This is too important to hand over law making to one industry, as Congress did in the case of these bills. Too much is at stake to try to rework the bills in a slapdash manner, behind closed doors. That's the truth.

The New Walter Cronkite?

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was announced the winner of the prestigious John Steinbeck Award on Monday. In addition to being honored with the award, Maddow was...

Rachel Maddow: The New Walter Cronkite

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was announced the winner of the prestigious John Steinbeck Award on Monday. In addition to being honored with the award, Maddow was...

Advertising: Super Bowl Commercials, From Charming to Smarmy

Risk-taking, rule-breaking ideas were as hard to find among the more than 50 Super Bowl commercials as good taste in a GoDaddy ad.

NBC Spends Millions on the Buildup to ‘Smash’

Estimates are that NBC has spent as much as $25 million promoting “Smash,” a new series that the network hopes will be the hit it desperately needs.

New High-DPI UI Resources in 10.7.3

Have you noticed that Safari’s hovering-over-a-link pointing-finger cursor looks a little different in Mac OS X 10.7.3? It’s not just that the finger is at a slightly different angle — it’s a new UI resource that scales gracefu...

Artist Faces 15 Years In Prison For Recording His Own Arrest

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Tiawanda Moore didn't think she was doing anything wrong when she took out her smartphone and started recording a conversation with two...

Arizona State Lifts Ban On Change.org

Arizona State University infuriated activists when the school decided to block access to Change.org, a popular site that allows people to create and sign petitions...

Media Decoder Blog: ‘The Voice’ Follows the Super Bowl to Rare Ratings Heights

Propelled by the ratings for the Super Bowl - whose 111.3 million viewers made it the most-watched event in TV history - the NBC singing competition scored a 16.3 rating among the 18- to 49-year-old viewers and attracted 37.6 million viewers.

Bishop Eddie Long Apologizes To Jewish Groups After Video Surfaces Of Him Wrapping Self In Torah, Being Crowned King

It's been a rough couple of years for Bishop Eddie Long. The senior pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia spent parts of 2010 and 2011 facing down lawsuits from young men alleging that he coerced them into sexual acts. Long denied the allegations but the church settled the suits out of...