According to an alarming report published by The New York Times on Friday, reporters at the company were for decades not only permitted, but frequently and forcefully encouraged, to monitor potential story subjects with the terminal software's UUID function.
Washington controversies that involve the invasion of privacy and terrorism have a way of clarifying, with uncommon speed, what exactly the town's leaders and critics believe. Here are the politicians and pundits coming to the NSA's defense the day after the Verizon news broke.
Arguing that print reporters and freelancers can replace a staff of nearly 30 professional photographers, the Chicago Sun-Times laid off their entire photojournalism team today.
Two days after the temple of journalism announced its intent to honor Hussam Salama and Mahmoud al-Kumi, who were killed in November while working as cameramen for the Middle East-based Al-Aqsa TV, the museum has decided not to recognize them, citing their employer's deep ties to Hamas.
Government officials in Pakistan have expelled 39-year-old New York Times reporter and Islamabad bureau chief Declan Walsh for participating in unspecified "undesirable activities."
An undercover BBC journalist surreptitiously entered North Korea with group of students attending the London School of Economics. Was he right to do so?
The credibility of The Daily Caller's report that New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez had sex with prostitutes during a junket in the Domincan Republic took yet another blow on Monday afternoon as The Associated Press reported that police in the Dominican Republic have determined that an attorney named Melanio Figueroa paid three women a couple hundred dollars each to make the claims on camera.
Someone's not telling the truth about the detainment of director Emad Burnat, and for now, Buzzfeed is on the losing end of this one — burned by an anonymous source at Los Angeles International Airport.
After an Oscar night uproar over a tweet that used the c-word to describe Quvenzhané Wallis, The Onion's new CEO is attempting to put the incident behind the paper of satirical record. But beyond the offensiveness, can The Onion still be The Onion now?
The Knight Foundation, a journalism institute based in Miami, now say it's sorry for paying the shamed science writer $20,000 to speak at a conference. So why was he paid in the first place?
In one of the most talked-about columns on social media today, The Week columnist Matt Lewis tries to explain how he got trapped in the "prison" of Twitter's apparent decline — even though he's really just trapped himself, by way of a really bad Twitter feed.
As news arrives today that some of its most familiar (and familiarly loud) faces are on the way out and some new (and potentially household-name) anchors may be on the way in, the future of CNN is starting to take shape under its powerful new boss. Here's what that might look like — no Sarah Palin allowed.
The influential tech site watched its editorial integrity spiral out of control Monday, with staffers quitting and editors were left to explain themselves in the wake of explosive new charges over its annual CES awards — a scanda that goes to the top of its corporate umbrella, and could shake the entire ecosystem of online tech journalism.
The veteran reporter will be remembered for his award-winning work covering the 1988 presidential campaign and the Middle East.
Few people were better at digging up secret information than the late 60 Minutes veteran Mike Wallace, and now CBS News has honored that memory by posting his FBI surveillance file online.
Sullivan announced that the independent version of his blog raised about $300,000 in 24 hours, with reader payments from pretty much everywhere but the great state of Arizona. What gives?
The backlash continues against the Journal News, but the most notorious local paper of the year doesn't seem to be backing down.
Andrew Sullivan is leaving The Daily Beast to launch up an independent, reader-funded publishing company based around a new kind of pay "meter," and he needs your help to start it — a lot of your help.
The Putnam County Clerk says the Journal News's feature on where gun permit owners live is "clearly wrong," and won't release more records without a fight.
We may never know whether imposed silences by their parent organizations helped NBC News's Richard Engel or The New York Times's David Rohde escape, but the Agence France-Presse is now trying the opposite.
Employees of the Journal-News, which recently published a map of gun owners in two upstate New York counties, are receiving the same treatment — sort of.
ABC News's senior White house correspondent is leaving the network to become an anchor at CNN, and we play the guessing game for which slot he'll fill in new CNN boss Jeff Zucker's lineup.
What Engel and NBC didn't tell us about was missing technical support staffer Ian Rivers. We didn't know about him until NBC released a statement Wednesday morning.
Forbes took a look at how Slate is trying to figure out its revenue options, and, judging by its chief's instant freakout, those definitely do not include charging readers for access to every story.
In the dystopian world of the news business the gamemakers at The Kansas City Star have offered two tributes, ahem, reporters, the choice in deciding who stays and who goes: if one stays, the other gets laid off — and vice versa.
Jeff Zucker isn't going to be starting as the boss at CNN until after the new year, but we can still ask who he's firing, what the new lineup will look like, and today's big TV-news news: Is he going to hire America's favorite jilted anchor?
It's important to remember that he isn't suing for the network's coverage of the larger Trayvon Martin saga. No, Zimmerman's suit entirely focuses on his accusation that NBC manipulated his 911 call to make him look like a "hostile racist."
"G-Dawg splashes out tax cuts like P Diddy with Dom Pérignon in his Blingiest giveaway," reads the headline of Jonathan Guthrie's column today regarding the British economy. Seriously. (We think?)
If you want an explanation from R. Umar Abbassi — why he didn't lend a hand, say — you're going to have to pay him, as CNN found out Tuesday evening.
There's one big question about today's intense cover of the New York Post: Why didn't anyone help him?
In 12 days, Rupert Murdoch's tablet publication The Daily will be shutting down, and for one simple reason: The world's first bold foray into iPad-only newspapering wasn't making money.
Margaret Sullivan has already half-revealed that even though she supports this idea — and even though there are bigger questions at hand — well, maybe this whole thing was kind of a bad call.
We're not here to debate whether or not North Korea's supreme leader is the sexiest man alive. No, we're here to snicker that The Onion fooled the official paper of China's communist party into thinking it so.
Last night the maker of lovable Twitter account @NYTOnIt announced that the actual New York Times got Twitter to suspend (it's since been reinstated) the account because they said the @NYTOnIt avatar violated copyright laws. Really, New York Times? Really?
Rupert Murdoch can apologize (as he sort of did) about his "Jewish-owned press" tweet, but he still can't take it back. And because that tweet is out there, the big question now is which press, exactly, he was referring to.
Reporter Sharon Udasin is not a military or political correspondent, but she's learning the hard way how difficult it can be to cover anything else—pets, specifically, and now, more than ever—when your world is consumed by the throes of war.
We're all supposed to hate Tina Brown. We get it. She's the queen of shock covers, she talks on the Amtrak quiet car, and completely sunk one of the most iconic magazines she was paid a lot to fix. So when we sat down with New York's Q&A with the Queen of Chaos last night we were prepared to hate but ....
After seeing the departure of its editor-in-chief Chris Anderson on November 2, Wired has announced that Scott Dadich—the magazine's former creative director from 2006-2010—will take over the magazine
Last night The New York Times dropped a blockbuster story: their new CEO Mark Thompson, who is just finishing his first week on the job, might be lying about how much he knew about sex abuse allegations while he was running the BBC. This morning all we can wonder about is how long we'll be referring to him as CEO.
There is a 100-percent chance that after spending years and many blog posts predicting the outcome of the election, Nate Silver did not vote, he said during a Q&A on Deadspin.
There's a reason Australian "reporter" Andrea Yu is China's favorite foreign journalist. It's because they're using her to skew the Communist Party Congress coverage.
The Washington Post is, like many papers, in bad business shape. That's a given. But today is one step at looking forward, as they found an editor in The Boston Globe's Martin Baron to replace executive editor Marcus Brauchli.
Bloomberg Businessweek has been getting high marks as of late for being funny, smart, and witty. However, this past weekend all that went missing when it asked where the hottest girls go to business school.
Occasionally, the headline writers for the New York Post and the New York Daily News are presented a story that will challenge their pun-making skills and gives them an opportunity to try and out do each other. The Petraeus affair has them both in rare form.
It wasn't very difficult to figure out, but New York City's tabloids figured out that yesterday's nor' easter was really just the worst. And one of them figured throwing some breasts at you might make you stop complaining and feel better.
Well, that sort of settles it.
What I'm paid to do is be your news junkie. Hurricane Sandy made that impossible for the last two days.
Hurricane Sandy is here. Well sort of, she's not making landfall until tonight. But you probably would've known all that and about her warm core and sustained winds if you were following some of the country's best weather blogs.
The deal for Variety is done. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Penske Media, which bought Deadline.com from Nikki Finke, has acquired the 107-year-old showbiz news source and trade publication for a cool $25 million.
While an optional, 15-minute walkout at The New York Times might seem pretty polite as labor actions go, it is the biggest step the Times newsroom has taken at showing their displeasure with the progress of contract negotiations on wages and benefits.
Courtney Rubin's New York Times trend piece on the death of college bars today is brimming full of falsity—drinking blue liquor out of fishbowls is sadly real—starting with the Cornell "seniors" she interviewed who don't actually exist.
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