The detention of journalist Iason Athanasiadis is a legal abomination -- and a breach of Iranian hospitality
By Sandy Tolan Jul 2, 2009
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Does female confessional journalism really harm women?
By Amanda Fortini
July 3, 2009
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I did internships, made connections, got clips, etc., but my parents are still paying my cellphone bill
By Cary Tennis
June 29, 2009
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"The Wire" creator David Simon and Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington debate the future of journalism.
By Katharine Mieszkowski, Caitlin Shamberg
May 6, 2009
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A smart thriller about the death of newspapers? Russell Crowe plays a reporter clinging to his job, and his principles, in this refreshingly grown-up film.
By Stephanie Zacharek
April 17, 2009
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Is going nonprofit the best way for journalism to get by? Take the word of leading editors who already have their hand out.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 13, 2009
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Newspapers have been battered by technological and economic forces, sure, but journalism has also delivered a one-two punch to its own jaw.
By David Sirota
March 28, 2009
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I feel guilty training kids in a trade for which the market is disappearing.
By Cary Tennis
March 17, 2009
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The Hall of Fame baseball writer quickly fires up a blog in the wake of the Rocky Mountain News' demise. "I never felt the Internet was a threat."
By King Kaufman
March 13, 2009
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If reporting vanishes, the world will get darker and uglier. Subsidizing newspapers may be the only answer.
By Gary Kamiya
February 17, 2009
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Journalists are supposed to fight it, not brag about it. Too many baseball writers don't seem to feel that way.
By King Kaufman
January 12, 2009
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The late buckaroo populist and freedom fighter would have had a ball with the insanity of this current news cycle.
By Anne Lamott
October 3, 2008
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Republicans and the press love revisiting Joe Biden's past, but everybody -- including the possible GOP vice-presidential candidates -- has one.
By Joe Conason
August 25, 2008
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As U.S. newsrooms shrivel, India's are booming. And they're hiring, not firing reporters and editors.
By Arun Venugopal
August 7, 2008
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From battlefield chaos to soldier-strength profanity, HBO's "Generation Kill" faithfully captures Marine Corps life during the invasion.
By Anna Badkhen
July 10, 2008
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The world's foremost defender of quality writing makes a fool of himself again.
By King Kaufman
June 20, 2008
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I've been doing well selling my writing but I seem to be running out of inspiration.
By Cary Tennis
June 2, 2008
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I'm a good writer. Everybody says so. So how come other people get hired?
By Cary Tennis
April 10, 2008
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The series creator on the show's majestic 5-year run, Sunday's finale and those pesky, "psychically wounded" critics
By Heather Havrilesky
March 10, 2008
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The overwhelmingly negative press corps may have rallied voters to Clinton's side and turned her narrow victory into a resurrection.
By Joe Conason
January 10, 2008
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Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 25, 2007
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His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 27, 2007
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She promised a raise and didn't deliver, and acts like I should be grateful!
By Cary Tennis
September 27, 2007
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Political columnist Katha Pollitt has been vilified for airing her romantic dirty laundry. What's wrong with serious women writers exposing their soft underbellies to the world?
By Rebecca Traister
September 26, 2007
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The world doesn't always conform to our impressions of it, and that's just one lesson to be learned from a bump on the head.
By Garrison Keillor
August 29, 2007