On the plagiarism panic
One of the first things I learned in my first newsroom job was how to use a thick, black pencil to transform an official press
September 18, 2012
One of the first things I learned in my first newsroom job was how to use a thick, black pencil to transform an official press
I’m badly out of step with my media brethren, since I find the fate of Wikileaks and its besieged founder, Julian Assange, a truly compelling
The media seem to move on from mass killings more quickly nowadays than they used to, and within three days of the Aurora, Colo., cinema
As a reporter, I was taught that people you interview give up control of their words the moment they’re spoken. This was the trapdoor model:
However droopy the rest of the news business might be, dishonesty has become a growth sector, with a steady churn of mini-scandals involving theft, pillage,
Jonah Lehrer is a science writer who at age 30 is at the top of his game. He has written three books, two of them
To the mainstream news business, social media are both an opportunity and an irritant. They enable reporters to learn more and learn it more quickly,
LONDON—The idea of “regulating” the news media plays quite differently on the two sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S. it’s unthinkable: Press regulation of
When President Obama addressed the American Society of News Editors convention last month, the real news was what didn’t happen. The watchdogs didn’t bark. No
Inside the nasty question of whether gratuitous mayhem is a strategic element of pro football is a question of a different kind. It involves former
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