Photographer Paul Hansen is fighting back against claims — from hackers calling it a composite, bloggers calling it a "fake," and still others questioning the meaning of news photography in a digital age — that his winning image for the "World Press Photo of the Year" contest is nothing but a computer-aided forgery. Even the World Press judges are doing some forensic second-guessing.
A leaked Associated Press memo offers a refreshingly candid assessment of how the 165-year-old wire service continues to struggle in navigating the increasingly tech-driven, real-time media landscape of the 21st-century.
The former First Daughter gave her first effort as TV news reporter last night, providing media pundits the chance to dissect the most high-profile debut in some time.
Buzzfeed co-founder Jonah Peretti played it pretty coy when we tracked him down to ask about how he lured veteran blogger Ben Smith startled to lead a new team of scoop-hungry journalists at fun-machine BuzzFeed.
It might be a turbulent time for the news-biz, but the media hasn't altogether abandoned perks for its employees, and after surveying the snack offering in newsrooms, tasty treats can say a lot about a company's priorities.
BuzzFeed, which has spent its life building an encyclopedia of other people's greatest Web hits, has hired away one of the key reporters from the website Politico, to be its new editor-in-chief and build their own original news division. Smith, who was one of the first hires at Politico five years ago, said there are plans to hire a dozen more reporters.
Rachel Maddow's chic eyewear and urbane demeanor may not evoke the image of a lifelong truck owner but the doyenne of cable news still has a few surprises up her sleeve.
If Herman Cain is good at anything, it's talking about his opinions and upsetting many people in the process. Obviously, this makes him a great candidate for one of those high-paying, freewheeling pundit jobs at Fox News.
An anonymous account of two Yeshiva University students' hot night in a hotel room in the campus paper includes no NSFW details, no naughty cameraphone snaps, nor even a bad word, but the the Orthodox Jewish university in New York City is nonetheless up in arms over the a pre-marital sex column.
The Moscow activists who protested the Russian elections in the streets of Moscow Tuesday did not do a good enough job of looking scary and violent, it seems, because Fox News cut its coverage of the protests with footage riot police and streets on fire -- in Athens.
Today, as both the President and Canadian PM announced a new border deal that will supposedly make crossing the border easier, more secure and better for trade all at the same time, a Toronto Star reporter asked White House officials why the U.S. media wasn't paying attention to its northern neighbors.
Last weekend, a bunch of journalists met up at this year's News Foo conference in Arizona to discuss, among other things, what to do in the event of an apocalypse.
Now that we know the name (Newsroom), basic plot line, and character sketches for his cable news drama, Aaron Sorkin's new HBO series sounds a lot like all of his old network shows.
"The Beast is on a roar!" tweeted Tina Brown on Thursday afternoon, reporting the best traffic month ever for her website and a welcome victory for her recently gutted editorial team.
Last night, Brian Williams did another thing that firefighting blogs might chide a former volunteer firefighter like himself for doing: he concocted a fake alarm to interrupt Jon Stewart during a clip reviewing Williams unflappable on air alarm moment on Tuesday.
Whatever the outcome of Herman Cain's multiplying sex scandals, the extensive (and defensive) coverage on Fox News, especially by their female commentators, has not made the news network sound like a pleasant place for women to work.
In just a few days the iPad will be 18 months old and Jann Wenner will release Rolling Stone's first app -- nothing too flashy. Given Wenner's reputation as the biggest naysayer of tablet editions, it would appear we're entering a new era of the iPad magazine.
Laura Lang, head of the digital advertising powerhouse Digitas, will soon be named as Time Inc.'s new CEO, and with her Wharton degree and busy background in forward-thinking marketing strategy, she'll be expected to bring in new dollars.
Facebook just published a list of the most-shared U.S. news stories of 2011 and right behind understandable links to Japan earthquake coverage and parenting advice is the now notorious story about people's zodiac signs changing.
The host of This Week explains her love of radio and what bothers her about the mainstream media.
The Department of Homeland Security will take things from here.
A lot of people have no idea that the word "uppity," when applied to black people, has racist connotations, but it's getting harder and harder to understand how public figures, in particular, are able to maintain their ignorance of the term's history.
The search for the most alarming fried turkey tutorial stops in Texas, Thanksgiving greasefire capital of America.
Michael Bloomberg is the 21st-century Monopoly man, minus the monocle, who peddles information and influence instead of colorful real estate.
Shreveport's KSLA 12 cuts the season's most explosive turkey frying promo.
Jim Romenesko, patron saint of aggregators and online journalists, has launched his new eponymous site and in case you missed it, opened the blog with a long read of his side of his fallout with Poynter.
From Arkansas, the least-safe Thanksgiving safety video we've seen this year
Despite the media-gazer chatter about Nick Denton selling Fleshbot as his company's next grown-up move, the porn site hasn't legally been a part of Gawker Media for two years.
The NYPD's treatment of journalists covering its raid on Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday has been criticized not only be news outlets and press watchdog groups but by the top New York City officials.
That's William Shatner beneath those computer-generated flames.
The MSNBC host vents on his hatred for Wikipedia and his faith in the staying power of liberal talk radio
Newsweek Daily Beast executive editor Edward Felsenthal became the third high-level hire to leave the company in the span of a few hours, a grim sign that chaos still rules at the magazine-web hybrid.
Millions of Americans will deep-fry their Thanksgiving turkey this year, but only one video of exploding poultry will be good enough to be win The Atlantic Wire's award for holiday public service announcements.
Last week, CNN sacked over 50 staffers, many of them camera-lugging photojournalists, in part because it will lean more heavily on its citizen journalism outfit iReport for more, better content.
The Fox News anchor talks Twitter and how she snagged the first post-scandal Herman Cain interview
Chelsea Clinton just got hired to report for NBC News, The New York Times reported, saying that she'll immediately "begin work on stories that NBC expects to use as part of its 'Making a Difference' series."
CNN is passing out pink slips in their DC, New York, Atlanta, Miami and Los Angeles offices following a three-year long review of the company's workflow.
Robert Crumb has revealed the politically charged New Yorker cover over which he quit over a year and a half ago, making The New Yorker look cowardly for rejecting his controversial image.
It only took him three tries, but after 12 years, the legendary media blogger and journalism evangelist Jim Romenesko is finished with the Poynter Institute.
Everybody made fun of The Los Angeles Times when they hired a former General Mills executive as CEO, which was the right thing to do since he ran the company into the ground with his zany ideas.
Turns out that practically none of the media reporters that Poynter Institute editor Julie Moos wants to protect from being over-aggregated by Poynter's own lauded and soon-to-be-semi-retired Jim Romenesko feel particularly ripped off.
The "We Are the 99 Percent" ripoff Tumblr craze is spreading, and naturally disgruntled editors and reporters are joining the trend.
Even though there's a Tumblr dedicated to pointing out its questionable headlines, The Huffington Post almost never apologizes for offending people.
Herman Cain said he's not going to "point any fingers" at who might be conspiring to destroy his reputation with sexual harassment allegations, but the Internet is happy to fill that void.
The New York Times-Huffington Post media spat over Lisa Belkin's Parentlode blog just got legal after The Times filed a lawsuit against the news website.
Hell hath no fury like a journalist who can't freely retweet. The Associated Press is facing a wave of backlash today following the release of its new guidelines for Twitter usage.
Blaming James, family appointments with a psychologist over who succeeds Rupert, Elizabeth calling for the heads of Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton--it's all in Vanity Fair's preview of its December issue.
Herman Cain's conservative supporters have two defenses of to his sexual harassment claims -- liberals are trying to destroy him with racist stereotypes and Cain's comments barely count as flirty -- that seem to contradict each other.
There's (a little) good news and there's (a lot of) bad news in AOL's third quarter earnings report out Tuesday, leaving some to wonder if Tim Armstrong's big turnaround is still stalled.
After half a decade of declines, the newspaper of record saw a boost in home-delivery subscriptions for the print version of the Sunday Times — a 0.2 percent boost, that is.
It hasn't stopped raining on the Newsweek-Daily Beast comeback parade, and a new Adweek report suggests the dark clouds might take years to lift.
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