Where does one start with a 40th anniversary? Not our marriage. That was two years ago. How about: Paris student demonstrations. Tet offensive. LBJ refuses to run for reelection. Chicago police ri  

Recent unrest in Tibet and protests over the appearance of the Olympic torch show the value, indeed the necessity, of obtaining information from a variety of sources -- and treating all of them wit  

Religion is hot news because Pope Benedict XVI is coming to the United States next week. He'll be accompanied by a deluge of news media cliches and ignorance about the papacy, his relations with Ca  

Journalism has consequences. That's the ethical issue that faces reporters on certain kinds of stories. Is all information good? Or is some information more harmful than good? My colleague, Ben L.  

To her credit, Harvard professor and Pulitzer-winning author Samantha Power doesn't deny calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" during an interview with journalist Gerri Peev from The Scotsman. Unlik  

The Sunday, March 16, edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer answers the question: Why should we read newspapers? It's because of articles such as "Story Behind the Lockdown in the 2004 Vote" on page A  

Xenophobia and self-censorship bedevil the news media. It begins and ends with Matt Drudge, the blogger who became indespensible after sleepy Washington reporters caught his scoop on the president’  

I recently received a press release from the Northern Kentucky Convention & Visitors Bureau that I found interesting for a variety of reasons — none of them having to do with the intended purpose.   

Friend, broadcaster and stockbroker Chris DeSimio loves this quote from John Adams' Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials in December 1770: "Facts are stubborn things; a  

Our lives are inundated by noise, some of it auditory, some visual, some both. It's hard to realize how unquiet our lives are until we temporarily step outside the familiar regimen of constant inpu  

It appears our Sole Surviving Daily is recovering its will to pursue stories beyond the usual sources — e.g., Eileen Kelley's stories from Mexico on four illegal immigrants murdered in Sharonville.  

James McNair has been unfired. "My termination of last August has been converted to the voluntary acceptance of a buyout,¨ McNair wrote in an e-mail last week. "That's all I'm legally able to  

Today a scoop usually means stumbling on a story or digging through data to piece together a picture no one has seen before -- in short, luck or grunt work. In the old days, scoops meant an advent  

Media watchdogs to watch during our quadrennial masochism include www.factcheck.org and www.mediamatters.org. Rather than stenographically report campaign charge and countercharge, they identify   

One or two words can make all the difference in what a news article says — or doesn't say. People have been complaining about bias in news stories for as long as newspapers have been around. Co