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.
We predicted this. Or, at least, we predicted the impending backlash to our nation's growing obsession with yogurt—Greek yogurt, specifically. Now there's a New York Post trend story on the subject. Backlash machine, activate!
Today Doree Lewak takes on prenups in the New York Post, and they are crazy! It says it right there in the article headline, "New York's craziest prenups." So it's gotta be good. What are they? How nuts, exactly? And what does it mean?
Variety, the struggling but steadfast Hollywood trade publication, is close to finding a buyer, and if all goes as the Los Angeles Times says it will, that could very well be the Penske Media Corporation.
Cuomo has had a strained relationship with the media over the years, owing in part to a reputation for closely controlling his public image, but on Sunday he invited the press corps along for a field day, at a newly acquired parcel of 69,000 acres in the Adirondack State Park, the largest addition to the park in the last 100 years.
Punctuation can be both the great love and the occasional bane of a writer's existence, and it's not strange that a love affair may crop up with regard to one of those marks—or, contrarily, perhaps a great hatred may grow.
A topic near and dear to our hearts—quarters are close, there—is the ongoing discussion of small apartments in urban environments. If there's one real estate thing glass-half-full people enjoy marveling over and glass-half-empty types love to judge and condem, it's tiny, tiny apartments.
The owners of Village Voice Media (and the original founders of one of that company's 13 alt-weekly newspapers) have decided to sell all their publications in order to distance the news from their controversial adult services website.
CNN failed to disclose they got tips for their reports on Ambassador Chris Stevens' thinking before this death from his personal diary they found in Libya, and now there's conflicting stories over whether or not they had permission, or the right, to use it.
Journalist-turned-immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas has a new cause celebre: Discouraging news outlets everywhere from using the word "illegal immigrant" in news articles.
Another of New York City's iconic establishments, the University Restaurant diner on University and 12th Street, has closed. If we lose the diner, where do we get our pitch-perfect slices of life?
Mitt Romney's campaign is finally changing its strategy after a flood of free advice following the secret tape of him writing off 47 percent of Americans. Is he going to follow any of it?
Someday, we'll all be reading online, you'd imagine, but for now we have an Internet overly populated by youngs, particularly when it comes to blogging and revealing the ins and outs of their dating lives and oft TMI sexual exploits.
In three short weeks, America's favorite frenemies Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart will trade insults and intellectual niceties once again in a 90-minute debate.
For more than a deacde, we've been busily populating the World Wide Web with everything new under the sun, but the time has come to start retrieving the old, too.
Little did Betty Smith know that her novel about Irish immigrants living in Williamsburg would go on to inspire hundreds of articles that have nothing to do with her book at all, like this story in the New York Post headlined: "A tree (pose) grows in Brooklyn."
Mitt Romney's campaign so thoroughly believes in the power of its no-apologies-for-America foreign policy that it bought an ad on a Twitter hashtag mocking it.
They broke even. Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Sports Group, announced tonight that NBC, somehow, didn't make any money off the Olympics. Well, we shouldn't say somehow. They didn't make anything off the Olympics because they paid way too much for them.
This campaign is so boring, pool reporters told us today. The excitement is gone and everyone's focusing too much on gaffes. They're alls starting to feel burnt out from the non-stop, non-existent news cycle. Pool reporters, we're here to tell you, "it get's better."
If the country is focused on one thing this election year, it is how much I hate my job. Well, not my job -- I love my job. But other people who get paid real money to write about the most important thing happening on Earth? They hate it.
He's only got three days left on the job and New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane is making them count: For the second time in a week, he's dinging the Grey Lady's ethical standards.
For everyone who didn't get special access to information about the Osama bin Laden raid, today was a little bit discouraging as new e-mails revealed CIA officials gushing over Hollywood filmakers at the expense of trained reporters and documentarians.
The boys on the bus are kind of a boys' club, as a new study from the Women's Media Center and the 4th Estate Project found that 72 percent of newspapers articles covering the general election between April 16 and August 25 were written by men.
The Huffington Post is no longer just an oasis for laid off print journalists, it's also one for rain-soaked Tampa conventioneers.
Today in the New York Daily News, with enough time to give you plenty of room for discourse prior to your Benedict-and-Bloodies date tomorrow—say, 1-ish? No sense having to get up too early!—Alexander Nazaryan writes that we need to get rid of brunch, because brunch is, he says, ruining America.
Random House of Canada has launched Hazlitt, a new online magazine that's part of the publisher's revamped digital strategy. This is no Fox News Magazine.
About.com is killing The New York Times, yet Barry Diller, head of IAC just outbid Answers.com with a $300 million offer for a website that often muddles our Google search results, yet looks so, so not authoritative.
Recently, we learned that just about the worst thing a person could ever do in a bar is to—I don't even want to say it—order that foul concoction, the mojito. Whatever to drink instead?
We feel strongly about the punctuation we interact with in our daily lives. Today, we learn something about the @ that we did not know, leading us to wonder about the personality traits of our other favorite grammatical marks?
It's rather a fact of life that we will all grow up to think that the generations coming after us are spoiled, have it too easy, are entitled, know nothing about the rough life we had, couldn't have hacked it in the old days, are completely and totally self-absorbed, and so on and so on. There's a bit of "Get Off My Lawn" in all of us.
The government of Myanmar is ending a 50-year practice of requiring journalists to submit all their stories to a censor board before publication, but there's a catch, of course.
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins has surpassed J.K. Rowling's seven-book Harry Potter series as the best-selling books of all time on Amazon.com.
One of the most immediate reactions to the announcement that Paul Ryan would be Mitt Romney's V.P. was the ensuing debate over whether he was hot or not. Today, The New York Post's Andrea Peyser has a column on our dirty little habits.
Yesterday, those outside the inner echelons of the competitive Scrabble-playing world were shocked to hear of a scandal beyond anything we could have imagined, cheating at Scrabble Nationals. Some of those within the scene were less surprised.
Today, real estate mogul, Reality TV star, birth certificate verifier, and theater critic Donald Trump discovered that attacking liberal bloggers doesn't have quite the same effect as attacking, say, going after moderate Republicans.
Helen Gurley Brown has died at the age of 90. Before she started her Cosmopolitan magazine there was her bestselling book, Sex and the Single Girl. Published in 1962, it sold 2 million copies in 3 weeks.
Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and the woman most often credited with building it into an international empire, has died, according to the magazine's publisher, Hearst Corporation.
Today The Huffington Post launched its web television operation, HuffPost Live, an online news video hub that asks a lot of the watcher compared to the average TV network.
Drew Magary — Deadspin/Gawker columnist, GQ correspondent, and author of The Postmortal — really needs a smartphone.
Because it's August and because the New York Post loves a double entendre, we get a special gift today: The cover of today's issue, "Buzz Kill" refers to a troubling situation in New York City lifestyle politics. The people demand vibrators!
The Oxford American is embroiled in a scandal. The short story: sexual harassment. The long story, as always, is far more complicated.
CNN botched an exposé about white power rock bands by including the group Hatebreed (not a white power group) among a list of white supremacist bands. CNN eventually posted a correction but not before its fans made an impassioned defense: Sure this band has hate-filled songs, but not racist, white supremacist hate-filled songs!
Cat Marnell's been the topic of a lot of writing lately, but Sarah Hepola tackles the polarizing figure in a piece in Sunday's New York Times Magazine in a new way, exploring our fascination this time from a slightly more personal angle: the idea of writing about oneself.
A couple of weeks ago NPR Books posted their summer poll of the year, seeking to identify the greatest teen novel ever from thousands of nominations submitted by readers. The results are in—let the debates begin anew.
The following A to Z list of most-disliked words is culled from your comments, emails, tweets, and occasionally from our own strong opinions. Actually, honestly, we're not even kidding, honey.
In the ongoing debate over the byline gender gap, the July 29 issue of the New York Times Book Review, the "How-To" issue, has attracted some attention, inspiring a Tumblr of How-Tos from women.
One way to get Mitt Romney to talk to the press more is yell, "WHAT ABOUT YOUR GAFFES?" as he walks to his car. Another way is to write about what a sweetie-pie his press secretary Rick Gorka is.
There is a very important question being tackled again by certain smart people of the Internet, and that question is this: What, exactly, is the worst word on the entire planet?
Elizabeth Spiers, the founding editor of Gawker hired to give The New York Observer and its website a kick in the pants in 2011, is out as editor-in-chief, the weekly newspaper announced Thursday.
Nathan Adrian, 23, the U.S. swimmer who won the 100-meter freestyle Wednesday and set a world record, is the team's breakout star. We think he should get more attention.
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