Republicans running deceptive attack ads, slamming each other
With the Michigan primary still two weeks away, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are waging war against each other through televised attacks ads.The Romney-backing...
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Former New York Times executive editor remembers colleague Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid, long-time Middle East correspondent for The New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post, died in Syria Thursday, while covering the revolution there.Shadid, a two-time...
View ArticleJournalists allowed up-close look at efforts to dismantle Fukushima Daiichi...
Foreign journalists were allowed into the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant recently, for the the first time since the disaster there nearly a year ago.They donned protective clothing and masks...
View ArticleMyanmar loosens restrictions on press freedom
It’s an exciting time to be a journalist in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.Censorship is easing, taboos on what can be covered are lifting, and the current president, Thein Sein, has even talked...
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More Limbaugh advertisers cut support, while some businesses get caught in...
Rush Limbaugh's incendiary comments about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, calling her a slut and implying she was a prostitute, have cost his show more advertisers.According to the Associated...
View ArticleThis American Life retracts one of its most popular episodes: Mr. Daisey and...
In what can be described as no less than a stunning revelation, This American Life announced Friday afternoon that it was retracting its acclaimed "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory" episode.The...
View ArticleAfrican reporter confronted with violent threats after story on female...
Liberia newspaper reporter Mae Azango, working in the capital city, Monrovia, was going to do a story about midwives.But her plans got seriously disrupted. Azango had been working on an article about...
View ArticleIsrael passes law banning use of overly thin models
Israel passed a law earlier this week that bans local advertisers from using overly thin models in their campaigns.It also requires publications to disclose when images are altered to make models...
View ArticleMurdoch's News Corp accused of tech piracy in Australia
An Australian newspaper's investigation into a trove of 14,000 internal emails found that a News Corporation-owned company may have committed corporate espionage in order to gain a leg up in the pay...
View ArticleJournalism soldiers on in Pakistan despite obvious dangers
For the second year in a row, Reporters Without Borders has named Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world for journalists.Eleven reporters were killed there last year — among the latest,...
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Remembering iconic journalist Mike Wallace
It is hard to overstate the importance of Mike Wallace in redefining TV journalism.He interviewed everyone from Louis Farrakhan to Roger Clemens and even Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.When...
View ArticleAmerican comedian Bob Newhart never expected success
At 83 years old, Bob Newhart continues to perform comedy routines around the country. He's had an extensive career in the funny business.Newhart began his professional life not as a comedian, but as an...
View ArticleU.S. appeals court strikes down Congressional ban on political ads on public...
Public broadcasting doesn't have commercials — it has underwriting announcements, and few of them at that.That's about to change, now that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin case stirs debate over public access to 911 calls
Trayvon Martin was shot and killed Feb. 26, but it wasn't until mid-March that George Zimmerman's 911 calls were made public.Shortly after authorities released seven of the disturbing 911 phone calls...
View ArticleRomney faces high negative ratings as he turns to general election
It's no secret Mitt Romney will have to change his image moving from the primary season to the general election.In an ABC News/Washington Post poll released late last month, the presumed Republican...
View ArticleBBC reporter who stayed in Libya through civil war releases new book
This time last year, Libya was in the grip of a bloody civil war.Muammar Gaddafi was fighting to preserve his regime after 42 years in power. The rebels trying to topple him were struggling to fight...
View ArticleCritic doesn't object to Time breast feeding cover, but rather to words that...
This week's Time magazine cover is making a huge splash.It's been among the top three trending searches on Google for the past two days and it's led to more online subscription sales in a single day on...
View ArticleReports raise more questions about when Romney severed ties with Bain Capital
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are locked in a contentious debate over Romney's tenure at Bain Capital.Romney says he left Bain in 1999, when he headed to Utah to turn around the 2002 Winter Olympics in...
View ArticleRita Allen Foundation and Public Radio International announce “Immigrant...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:PRINCETON, N.J. and MINNEAPOLIS, MN, July 25, 2012 – In today's fractured news media landscape, the challenge of connecting audiences, producing news relevant to a global society,...
View ArticlePRI receives $400,000 grant to jump start "Immigrant Lives" initiative
In a pioneering collaboration, PRI's flagship public radio news program "PRI's The World®" will work with New America Media to uncover and produce stories about the immigrant experience in the United...
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