PressEthic

Newspapers shouldn't ignore the 2,000 deaths in Iraq, even if the Pentagon says pretty please.

Good reporting is good reporting, just like good beer is good beer. It's so true, and yet so simple.

A white man's murder makes the front page of The Washington Post's metro section, and a black man's murder is hidden in the briefs. Should journalists expect readers to believe their intentions were pure?

First Amendment rights. Shield laws. Sourcing. But Judy Miller's biggest backlash may be against her sex.

Sometimes columnists' wit doesn't outlast their word count.

How not to think prime time TV is breaking news.

Are you a journalist? Is Sports Illustrated a magazine or a newspaper? They might seem like obvious questions, but when it comes to state shield laws, it all depends.

Blacks and Muslims already face stereotypes in the media. Now, meet the diversity-challenged residents of the Midwest.

ABC's trying to scare Michelle, and CNN's freaking me out too. Meanwhile, Bloomberg says I can still ride the subway. What?

Does my favorite columnist hate TimesSelect as much as I do? It looks that way.

By pushing a sensationalized account of Rathergate, Mary Mapes is giving us journalism students another reason to wonder if we'll ever get a job to pay off those loans.

Judith Miller is out of jail. So why doesn't The New York Times want us to know?

I always thought it was odd that public relations was taught in the journalism school at my university. Not that it’s an inherently bad profession. Some of my best friends are PR students and they’re good people - even though we always joke that one day we’ll despise each other for making the other’s job a lot harder.

But, in several vital ways, PR isn’t really journalism.

After Jayson Blair plagiarized her work, reporter Macarena Hernandez almost left journalism. The reasons why might not be what you think.

Technology has given us great ways for readers to get involved in their media outlets, from blogging and posting comments to submitting pictures from their cell phones. But are they heading toward the guilt that so many journalists already face?