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.
Even as there are slow but steady steps forward in the way women's magazines talk to women, there are setbacks, like a recent offering from Glamour which we can add to the list of articles we wish journalists (female ones, at that) would stop writing for women.
David Brooks argues that President Obama is doing better than you'd expect in polls given the state of the economy because he possesses a very specific type of manliness: "ESPN masculinity."
On ABC's The View Tuesday, Obama made news by correctly answering a question about the Kardashians -- and people were impressed: how could the president possibly know about the Kardashians?! But the real question should be: has Obama ever not answered a pop culture question?
There were plenty of headlines on the Internet this morning like "War On Texting While Walking" (Gothamist) and "Stupid Laws: Text And Walk In Fort Lee, New Jersey, “Win” $85 Fine" (Gadgetsteria). But after a couple of phone calls were made by MSNBC.com's Rosa Golijan, it turns out there's no ban—and there never was.
The Time magazine cover on "attachment parenting" featuring a 26-year-old mom breast-feeding her nearly 4-year-old son—the one that we were all talking about Thursday—has made it to the Today show, along with the mom, Jamie Lynne Grumet, and her child, Aram.
At his fundraiser with George Clooney Thursday night, President Obama revisited one of his favorite themes -- that he's getting older, that he's getting less cool -- but with a very special twist: A reference to The Atlantic Wire.
The story of Mitt Romney's high school bullying -- he held down a gay kid and cut off his fancy hairdo, he led a blind teacher into a door -- has caused many political reporters to reflect on their own turbulent teen years, but they're not drawing the conclusions you'd expect.
The matter inflaming the Internet this Thursday is one of breasts. Particularly, a bare boob, tucked neatly into the mouth of a 3-year-old boy, on the cover of Time magazine.
Time Magazine really swung for the fences with its May 21st cover.
Remember that delicious "hell hath no fury" story about an angry dentist in Poland who pulled out all of her ex-boyfriend's teeth? You may be shocked to learn that it didn't really happen.
Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily reports that AOL is looking to unload two of its signature blog properties, Engadget and TechCrunch, after a year of messy public fights over their leadership.
The New York Post and the Daily News devote their front pages to the story of Michael Pena, who was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison yesterday on three counts of predatory sexual assault.
The editor of The Root tells us how the Internet has changed media aimed at African Americans.
This afternoon we get two bleak portrayals of how old-media is doing in this "new media" world.
Brian Stelter at The New York Times reports that the ratings for 60 Minutes have been fantastic this year, partly because of a youth movement in the show's talent. But perhaps it's the show itself that got younger?
In today's meta-media circular circle-of-circleness news, the journalist who wrote a book about former a Washington Post editor says The Washington Post won't write about him because there's too many people talking about The Washington Post. (Got that?)
In its bid to gain a competitive advantage over network rivals NBC and Fox, ABC News is launching an English-language cable channel targeting Hispanic Americans.
Just over a year after she was anointed queen of content, Arianna Huffington has been knocked down the ladder a couple of rungs at AOL.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
To assume that an entire nation of parents is great is as silly as assuming that an entire set of people born in under one birth sign are exactly the same. But that hasn't stopped the ongoing "Where is it better to be a mom?" debate.
Roger Ailes doesn't have any trouble getting face time with the nation's top conservative lawmakers because, conveniently, they're showing up in droves at his second floor office in the Fox News headquarters.
Inspired by a recent Wall Street Journal piece titled "Nine Rules Women Must Follow to Get Ahead," we compiled a list of eight other articles that journalists should stop writing. Wednesday, The Journal responded with a new post.
The New York Post has never been a fan of Occupy Wall Street, but the relish with which they tear at Occupy's reemergence on the scene with yesterday's May Day protests is fairly epic—even by Post standards.
Are you a woman who wants to "get ahead"? Perhaps you've seen a recent article in The Wall Street Journal titled, helpfully, "Nine Rules Women Must Follow to Get Ahead."
Perhaps the Daily News is taking seriously those allegations that they've gone soft. Maybe there really is a so-called "WAR!"on with the New York Post.
Dan Rather's new book (and accompanying media tour) is the perfect opportunity to lay it all out on the table and come clean about any and all regrets that he's had in his long career. But Rather regrets nothing.
One word we can't seem to get enough of these days—hint: not slacks!—is diaeresis, meaning those two dots that sit on top of a second vowel when two come right next to each other in separate syllables, as seen almost exclusively in The New Yorker.
The New York Times has been going easy on President Obama, according to the newspaper's public editor, but studies show the rest of the mainstream media isn't following suit.
Thursday I wrote an innocent post, proffering an opinion, the simple opinion of one blogger. I came down against the corgi.
If you could eliminate a single word from The New Yorker, what would it be?
It's been a pretty dramatic week for HBO's Girls. How do you keep up? Here's a recap of what went down to help you prepare for episode 2.
Michigan's former governor talks Tosh.O, right-wing radio, and her favorite 22-year-old blogger.
Two USA Today reporters became the targets of a ham-fisted online smear campaign after they started asking questions about the other ham-fisted propaganda effort being carried out by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We could argue all day about whether or not Time's annual 100 Most Influential List -- or any list for that matter -- really says anything relevant about what's happening now.
As much as we'd love to trust the Internet's favorite crowdsourced store of knowledge, it's time to face the truth: It's a flawed system.
Listen up for an important career lesson: If you're clever enough to co-create a meme that gets so popular, the Secretary of State lolz along with it, you're probably clever enough to work for one of the Internet's leading meme chronicler and generators.
The attorneys in the George Zimmerman case did not argue over sealing the case file from public view, nor did a judge resist signing an order doing so, but on Monday that order became the subject of a new legal kerfuffle as media outlets sued to open the court file.
For 24 hours, people cared so much about a mean thing Hilary Rosen said about Ann Romney that more people searched for "Ann Romney" on Twitter than "Justin Bieber," the tween Twitter god. This fake outrage -- the "Umbrage Wars"! -- is a terrible thing, according to lots of hand-winging reporters. They're wrong.
'Tis the season, apparently. The season for sitting outside in the sun, for long brunches or lunches, and especially, for long, boozy brunches or lunches. The season for day-drinking!
Last night, Fox News president Roger Ailes told an audience at the University of North Carolina's Journalism School that in "15 years we have never taken a story down because it was wrong," according to an account by New York's Gabriel Sherman. That's quite the fib.
There is a question tugging at the hearts and minds of all stylish humans: How to re-live an epic tragedy in the fashion to which you have grown accustomed?
New York Times employees are getting visibly restless as their CEO-less company struggles to chart its course through 2012, amid declining profits and rising costs.
The sex columnist explains his masochistic addiction to National Review and how the Internet became one big alt-weekly
A day after getting dismissed by National Review and hours after undergoing chemotherapy, John Derbyshire seems unperturbed by the uproar he caused with his awful "non black" version of "The Talk."
Like many high school rebels, Meghan McCain is prone to quoting the icons of like-so-don't-even-care-what-you-think teenage cool: Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain, and Hunter S. Thompson. The only difference is that Meghan McCain is 27-years- old.
There have been many tributes offered to legendary 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace, but the best way to remember his remarkable career is to simply watch the reporter in action.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange likes to complain about the media, and with the debut of his new talkshow next week, get ready to hear a lot more of it.
With another admission of illegal hacking by the British press this morning, it's getting hard to differentiate the scandalized newspapers from the non-scandalized newspapers.
As another tale of Ryan Gosling super-hero-dom makes its way across the Internet, we ask ourselves: Is Gosling too good to be true?
While the media focused on President Obama's attacks on Paul Ryan's budget yesterday, the president had a separate message for the press: Here's how to cover my re-election campaign.
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