September 23, 2025
Paul Steiger talked about collaboration and competition in journalism Tuesday at the National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C. Steiger, the 2007 winner of the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award, also serves as president and chief executive of ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
At midlife, in a soft job, and nagged by questions that no one was answering, Carol Dysinger boarded a plane from New York to Dubai and then caught a connecting flight into Kabul. It was May 2005. She was a film professor at New York University and wanted to know about Afghanistan.
Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.
AOL is planning to hire hundreds of journalists, editors and videographers in the coming year as it builds out its content-first business model.
Mikhail Beketov had been warned, but would not stop writing. About dubious land deals. Crooked loans. Under-the-table hush money. All evidence, he argued in his newspaper, of rampant corruption in this Moscow suburb.
As The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bash each other, the Financial Times, led by its sharp, glamorous new U.S. editor, Gillian Tett, intends to become a status symbol of American business.
Citizen journalism is the fifth estate and media censorship is an exercise in futility, experts said this week at Dubai’s 9th Arab Media Forum despite objections from traditionalists resisting the inevitable.
Headlines in newspapers and magazines were once written with readers in mind, to be clever or catchy or evocative. Now headlines are just there to get the search engines to notice. In that context, “Jon Stewart Slams Glenn Beck” is the beau ideal of great headline writing. And both Twitter and Facebook have become republishers, with readers on the hunt for links with nice, tidy headlines crammed full of hot names to share with their respective audiences.
In “A Mosque in Munich,” Ian Johnson examines how the Muslim Brotherhood found a haven in Europe. Matthew Kaminski reviews the book for the WSJ.
Gawker Media said that computers belonging to one of its editors, Jason Chen, were seized from his home as part of what appeared to be an investigation into the sale of a next-generation iPhone.
