Journalism

Iran Iran: "The guest is God's friend"

The detention of journalist Iason Athanasiadis is a legal abomination -- and a breach of Iranian hospitality
  • Boobs, bulimia and breakups

    Does female confessional journalism really harm women?
  • I studied print journalism: Now what?

    I did internships, made connections, got clips, etc., but my parents are still paying my cellphone bill
  • Senate hearing pits newspapers against the Web

    "The Wire" creator David Simon and Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington debate the future of journalism.
  • "State of Play"

    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.
  • Spare change for news

    Is going nonprofit the best way for journalism to get by? Take the word of leading editors who already have their hand out.
  • All the news that's fit to be birdcage liner

    Newspapers have been battered by technological and economic forces, sure, but journalism has also delivered a one-two punch to its own jaw.
  • Why teach journalism if newspapers are dying?

    I feel guilty training kids in a trade for which the market is disappearing.
  • Tracy Ringolsby on the death of his newspaper

    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."
  • The death of the news

    If reporting vanishes, the world will get darker and uglier. Subsidizing newspapers may be the only answer.
  • Ignorance is not a sportswriting skill

    Journalists are supposed to fight it, not brag about it. Too many baseball writers don't seem to feel that way.
  • What's missing from this election? Molly Ivins

    The late buckaroo populist and freedom fighter would have had a ball with the insanity of this current news cycle.
  • If we must discuss plagiarism, let's talk exorcism too

    Republicans and the press love revisiting Joe Biden's past, but everybody -- including the possible GOP vice-presidential candidates -- has one.
  • Journalist seeking paycheck? Try India

    As U.S. newsrooms shrivel, India's are booming. And they're hiring, not firing reporters and editors.
  • True grittiness of Iraq

    From battlefield chaos to soldier-strength profanity, HBO's "Generation Kill" faithfully captures Marine Corps life during the invasion.
  • Bissinger contrite, but still bashing blogs

    The world's foremost defender of quality writing makes a fool of himself again.
  • I need more ideas! Where do they come from?

    I've been doing well selling my writing but I seem to be running out of inspiration.
  • How can I get a writing job?

    I'm a good writer. Everybody says so. So how come other people get hired?
  • David Simon on cutting "The Wire"

    The series creator on the show's majestic 5-year run, Sunday's finale and those pesky, "psychically wounded" critics
  • How bashing Hillary backfired

    The overwhelmingly negative press corps may have rallied voters to Clinton's side and turned her narrow victory into a resurrection.
  • Journalism and its discontents

    Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero.
  • Dan Rather stands by his story

    His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
  • I'm working for a cokehead at a free arts magazine

    She promised a raise and didn't deliver, and acts like I should be grateful!
  • The feminist who made me blush

    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?
  • A good hard bump

    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.
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