By Russell Brandom via The Verge It’s hard to root for the FCC. Even by the standards of government agencies, it’s slow, bureaucratic, and frequently pro-corporate. Its cousin agency, the FTC, will occasionally take on corporate greed...

By Matt Stempeck via Nieman Lab Too long, didn’t read: You can use this Ruby script to query Archive.org’s recently-launched TVNews archive and download JSON files with the results. It’s great for tracking how frequently a person...

By Danny Schechter Thomas Wolfe wrote “You Can’t Go Home Again” years ago,  and its core truth keeps popping up in my life even as I tend to retrace some of my life journeys, in an endless...

By Max Rivlin-Nadler via Gawker Veteran journalist Greg Mitchell is claiming an assigned piece he wrote for the Washington Post that outlined the failure of the media (including the Washington Post) in reporting on the lead-up to...

By Greg Sandoval via The Verge The Register of Copyrights needs a drink. Maria Pallante heads up the US Copyright Office, which helps establish practices and standards for copyright registration. During a speech at Columbia University two...

By Alexey Eremenko via RIA Novosti Asked about atheism in Iran, a group of women at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran said they were unfamiliar with the concept. “Maybe there are people like that abroad,”...

By Stephen L. Carter via Bloomberg Thirty-odd years ago, in between college and law school, I spent a summer as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal. For three weeks, I was assigned to the police beat. Each...

Via RT The US government is inconsistent in its policies and the job of a journalist is to point out that inconsistency, AP journalist Matthew Lee told RT. A crackdown on whistleblowers is also a worrying trend...

By Graham Cluley via Naked Security Is it ever acceptable for a journalist to hack into somebody else’s email? It’s an interesting question – and one that has recently come to the fore because of the alleged...

By Giselle Abramovich via Digiday When Steve Wildstrom left Businessweek in 2009, he’d spent 35 years there as a journalist, including 15 years of which he spent writing the “Technology & You” column. It wasn’t the most...