Newspaper Endorsements Still Key In Swing States
This weekend, a slew of newspapers in key swing states including Ohio are expected to release their endorsements for the presidency and other elected positions.Such external validation is highly prized...
View ArticleSexual Abuse Scandal Rocks U.K.'s BBC Network
Transcript SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. The BBC, one of the world's most prominent broadcasters, is in an uproar over allegations that one of its most...
View ArticleMedia Circus: Fox Struggles With Obama's Win
Imagine a ballot Tuesday that confronted you not with a choice between candidates named OBAMA and ROMNEY, but that looked more like this:How much do you support the REPUBLICAN?Pick only one.Utterly...
View ArticleConservative Media Caught in the Blame Game
In the wake of last Tuesday's elections, a lively debate has erupted into the open over whether conservatives and the Republican Party were well-served by their favorite media outlets.Former Gov. Mitt...
View ArticleCoverage Rapid, And Often Wrong, In Tragedy's Early Hours
Nearly everyone reported so many things wrong in the first 24 hours after the Sandy Hook shootings that it's hard to single out any one news organization or reporter for criticism.Among the news...
View ArticleMedia Circus: The Football Star And The Will To Believe
One of the top collegiate football players in the country, Notre Dame's Manti Te'o, was lionized by the media amid stories of his perseverance on the field after both his grandmother and his girlfriend...
View ArticleNew York Times Plans To Sell 'Boston Globe'
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.The Grey Lady is shedding more of its assets. This afternoon, The New York Times Company announced that...
View ArticleCNBC Adopts Tougher Tactic In Booking Wars
CNBC is far and away the television ratings leader in the financial cable news business.
View ArticleMedia Circus: Ah, The President's Mean
The week's developments include a pope emeritus for the first time in six centuries, federal budget cuts seemingly designed by Sweeney Todd, and the visit by one of the NBA's all-time rebounders...
View ArticleNews Corp. Education Tablet: For The Love Of Learning?
The educational division of the media conglomerate News Corp., called Amplify, unveiled a new digital tablet this week at the SXSW tech conference in Austin, Texas, intended to serve millions of...
View ArticleWith Headline Bus Tour, 'New York Post' Takes Manhattan
One of the joys of living in New York City is laughing at the giant screaming headlines in the New York Post. When the former secretary of state knocked back a beer on one of her trips abroad:...
View ArticleNPR To Discontinue 'Talk Of The Nation'
NPR announced Friday morning that it will no longer produce the Monday-to-Thursday call-in show Talk of the Nation.It will be replaced by Here and Now, a show produced in partnership with member...
View ArticleNPR To Drop Call-In Show 'Talk Of The Nation'
NPR executives announced Friday that they will stop production of Talk of the Nation this summer. The call-in program will be replaced with Here and Now, a newsmagazine that will be a co-production of...
View ArticleGreat Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away
In the age of hundreds of cable channels, millions of 140-character bulletins and an untold number of cat videos, a fear has been growing among journalists and readers that long-form storytelling may...
View ArticleKoch Brothers' Newspaper Takeover Could Spark 'Culture Clash'
The Tribune Co., emerging from bankruptcy and looking to reshape itself, is now considering the sale of all its newspapers — including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, TheBaltimore Sun and...
View ArticleSome Immigration Terms Are Going Out Of Newsroom Style
Journalists make choices all the time that influence our understanding of the news — the choice of what stories to cover, which people to interview, which words to use. And major news organizations...
View ArticleBloomberg News Apologizes For Tracking Subscribers
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News is apologizing. That's after admitting his reporters tracked how subscribers use the company's famous financial data terminals. The...
View ArticleMedia Covers Itself In Privacy Debacles
Host Scott Simon talks to NPR's David Folkenflik about the Justice Department's seizure of phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors, and Bloomberg's secret monitoring of its sources' and...
View ArticleFox News Reporter James Rosen Caught Up In Federal Probe
There is word of another controversial leak investigation by the Department of Justice. The target is Fox News reporter James Rosen, who was monitored by the department after breaking a story about...
View ArticleJustice Department Told News Corp. About Fox Subpoena In 2010
Fox News officials professed indignation and surprise last week over the search of reporter James Rosen's records amid a federal leak investigationBut prosecutors told Fox's parent company of a...
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