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.
"I've been abused worse than the detainees have been abused," J.D. Gordon, then the Navy's spokesman at Guantanamo Bay told The Washington Post in 2009, lamenting the lack of a media uproar over his accusations that a Miami Herald reporter was sexually harassing him.
The Fox News host on MSNBC vs. Fox and the quality he dislikes most about TV news anchors
Players: Gene Weingarten, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post who doesn't understand lolcats (or readers' infatuation with lolcats); Ben Huh, CEO of meme network I Can Has Cheezburger? which gave birth to the lolcat.
Today's gossip: Frances Bean Cobain is engaged, Charlie Sheen's show sells to FX, and your weekly dose of Hollywood trade publication brinksmanship.
James O'Keefe's lastest undercover investigation has blown the lid off the rampant liberalism at New York University: journalism professors Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen have been outed as opinionated men.
The reverend and MSNBC host explains his new-found love for Twitter and a long-time admiration for Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.
Less than 24-hours old, the Huffington Post's new parenting blog is already the target of legal action from The New York Times and insults from Times staffers.
"Leaking to the mainstream press. How safe is it? Not very," WikiLeaks tweeted last week—a bold statement after the organization's best source has spent two and a half years behind bars.
Michele Norris, public radio heavyweight and host of NPR's All Things Considered, is stepping down from hosting the network's flagship program as her husband, Broderick Johnson, accepts a senior advisor position with President Obama's re-election campaign, according to a memo Norris sent to NPR employees this morning.
A pair of writers unions are abandoning their seven-month-long boycott against The Huffington Post protesting the website's use of unpaid bloggers citing an agreement, but the web news giant says it's not changing its rules for unpaid writers.
Players: Edwin Chen, federal communications director for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a former White House correspondent for Bloomberg; The Washington Post, which has been writing about the National Resources Defense Council.
Would more House Republicans rather have John Boehner's job or Sean Hannity's? How many Republican presidential candidates would rather be in a Fox News studio than the White House?
Liberals are thrashing The New Republic for suggesting that the cable news doyenne is anything but marvelous.
Despite the New York Times's own Brian Stelter warning of decreasing ad revenue and a fresh round of buyouts, the New York Times turned in a profit last quarter.
The complaint among commentators that there have been too many Republican debates seems to have evaporated after Las Vegas.
Tuesday night is the eighth Republican primary debate of the 2012 election cycle, and while many pundits agree that this time the debates have mattered a lot more this cycle, will they run out of things to say about them?
The Dealbreaker editor explains what's bookmarked on her browser and tuned on her cable box.
The new New York Times executive editor is profiled by The New Yorker's Ken Auletta
Nevertheless, the Coalition Provisional Authority was pretty annoyed
Changing a controversial story without a correction was a "technical glitch"
He doesn't want the media covering Romney's Mormonism that his publication covers
Rock Center with Brian Williams adds the former Nightline anchor
Editor Jill Abramson called for up to 20 volunteers and ruled out layoffs
She dismisses the interest in her flap with Michael Arrington as our culture's "OCD"
Newspaper maintains that editorial integrity was what sunk the WSJ Europe Publisher
That's with an -er, not an -or; go tell your copy editors
The magazine's editors make the case that liberals should be wary of siding with the protestors
Les Hinton, will testify about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal later this month
The MSNBC host explains how Occupy Wall Street hijacked her media diet
On its 15th birthday, people are taking inventory of its nine years of news ratings dominance
The arbiters of visualizing cultural moments has spoken, err, published. What do you think?
Criticism of overly biased reporting is raining down on TV's bastion of objectivity
David Frum is no Erick Erickson
The Fox News chief has been unusually chatty as of late
A 'New York Times' report captures how the war in Afghanistan has moved from the ground to the air waves
Siegler is becoming a venture capitalist while Nick Bilton turned down big bucks
Did she say the White House "can't see around corners"?
Gary Knell says "NPR needs to do a better job of telling a story"
The media brands announced a wide-ranging content sharing deal
The animal rights group, known for its sexy tactics, likens it to "necrophilia"
A bevy of gay cartoon characters makes it the most inclusive broadcast
The publisher is already making excuses for its modest sales
The Peacock might be missing Keith Olbermann following its September ratings slump
Fishbowl DC's Betsy Rothstein thinks Ana Marie Cox's career is lacking
Paul Carr quit his TechCrunch job with great fanfare and is now starting a new company
After Perry's embarrassing debate performance, conservatives again ask Christie to pretty please run
A new survey offers tips on the dark art of SEO
The hyper-aggressive news site now has almost $14 million in funding
Michelle Obama's caught wearing diamond jewlery worth $42,000
Which probably explains why TV ad prices are rising despite declining viewership
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