By Paul Laubacher via Worldcrunch The hunt lasted for more than a year. In February, the Spanish police announced that they had arrested 11 people suspected of belonging to one of the most sophisticated cybercrime networks in...

By Sarah Marshall via Journalism When a 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck in California at 5.28am on 1 February, the Los Angeles Times reported the news. The story was published at 5.36am, just eight minutes later, complete with a...

By Laurie Penny via Jacobin There’s no such thing as a view from nowhere. Almost a year ago, I stayed up all night waiting for the night coach to Chicago with a busload of young Occupy activists...

By Audrey Ann Lavallée-Bélanger and Ella Wind via Jadaliyya Bassam Haddad mentioned in his article entitled “The Triumph and Irrelevance of Meta-Narratives Over Syria: “Rohna Dahiyyah” that people writing about Syria are often detached from the pain...

By Mary Clare Jalonick via Washington Post A colleague of the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a defamation case brought against him by former government employee Shirley Sherrod,...

By Tom Cochran via Digiday Media doesn’t have a talent problem on the content side. Despite daunting economics, a lot of people — particularly young people — want to try their hands at writing for a living. What is...

By Evan McMorris-Santoro via BuzzFeed Freshly minted White House reporters these days are facing a surprising question from many of their fellow D.C. scribes: Why would anyone want that job? Although often thought of as the most...

By Jake Spring via Atlantic Six days a week, one of the world’s most exclusive newspapers goes to print at 3 p.m. Two hours later, it’s in the hands of just 50 white-collar Burmese: the same journalists...

By Eli Sanders via The Stranger The official answer is no—one of those outdated military rules that haven’t caught up to the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” But, this may be changing. Recently, an Air Force...

By Tracie Powell via CJR Up until a few short years ago, when recruiters with Al Jazeera attended American journalism job fairs, hardly anyone seemed to want to talk with them. They often sat at tables alone,...