Behind a diplomatic tiff in the news business, a public duty
In an unusual dust-up, the top editor of the Washington Post has complained to The New York Times that it failed to credit the Post for work that preceded, and nourished, important stories that the...
View ArticleThe case the media should make for Edward Snowden
The news media’s silence while some of its boldest sources are prosecuted or jailed is something I’ve been protesting for some time, so naturally I was pleased when The New York...
View ArticleMedia focus on ‘moral injury’ masks disregard of civilian war...
Just before Christmas I heard a report on public radio concerning “moral injury” among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. That’s the psychic trauma caused by acting or...
View ArticleRobert Levinson case: Were the media right to expose a spy?
At first blush, the Robert Levinson affair seems like the epitome of reckless reporting on national security. The news media flat out blew a missing spy’s cover.
View ArticleAt last, an honest conversation over the Snowden leaks
Alan Rusbridger, editor of London’s Guardian, faced off with British legislators last week about his newspaper’s publishing secrets about official surveillance that were leaked by...
View ArticleGet ready — here come the Sixties again
The news media love anniversaries, and this month’s surge of commemoratives marking the assassination of President Kennedy is just the opening bell for a media observance that will go on for...
View ArticleNSA’s insatiable thirst for everything
President Obama might as well have had on his Nobel laureate coat and tails back in August. That’s when he weighed in on the revelations from fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden that...
View ArticleMeet the regulators of the unregulated Internet
Who regulates the Internet? If you answered “nobody” — because the government keeps its hands off — read on.
View ArticleNonprofit journalism struggles to keep its promise
As the head of a journalism school I have a strong, and obvious, interest in promoting the idea that people who decide to pursue careers as journalists are making a good choice — that...
View ArticleGovernment’s big win in the Manning case
All in all, it’s hard to see how the trial of Private Bradley Manning could have ended any better for the U.S. government.
View ArticleWill press power survive the Age of Amazon?
I won’t be leading The Washington Post day-to-day. I am happily living in “the other Washington” where I have a day job that I love.
View ArticleSnowden affair highlights gap between media and public
It’s unwise to put too much weight on polls, but a recent survey on the Edward Snowden affair suggests better judgment among the general public than our usual opinion leaders have been able...
View ArticleWhistleblowers aren’t treated so harshly everywhere
By the standards of other countries, the U.S. approach to official secrecy is ferocious.
View ArticleSecrecy, surveillance pose challenge to media
In recent weeks, the gleaming Digital Age has been flipped over, exposing a dank underbelly of post-9/11 secrecy and surveillance reminiscent of a mid-20th-century police state, implicating not just...
View ArticleGoogle’s Glass would keep an eye on all of us
Google’s launch of its dazzling Internet-connected eyewear, which it calls Glass, has been so understated that it’s tempting to mistake this wearable computer for just another...
View ArticleWhen ideological warriors join the news business
News and opinion parted company fairly late in the history of journalism, a split usually dated to the mid-19th century advent of steam-powered presses, paper mass-produced from wood pulp and a revenue...
View ArticleMedia: Getting it wrong in Boston
On the warm, clear morning of 9/11, with the towers still ablaze, a workmate and I set out on foot from our office in midtown Manhattan toward what later became known as Ground Zero. This was years...
View ArticlePrivacy invasion requires a good reason
Just how private is the closed-door talk of the powerful? And if the unguarded comments of politicians who assume they’re speaking in confidence are captured on tape, is it OK to make those...
View ArticleTwo cheers for the news ombudsman
Word that The Washington Post was doing away with the job of ombudsman after 43 years was greeted, by and large, with a shrug and a yawn by news habitués.
View ArticleWho pays ‘unpaid’ writers’ bills?
People who make their living by writing for publication had good reason to follow the recent hoo-hah over publishers who think paying writers for their work is optional.
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