May 30 Watch 5:57 Hulk Hogan, media ethics and the battling Internet moguls By PBS News Hour When Hulk Hogan won $140 million in court from millionaire Nick Denton’s Gawker Media after it published video of him having sex, the verdict raised serious questions about journalistic ethics. Hogan’s suit was funded by Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder… Continue watching
May 26 What does the billionaire-funded Gawker suit mean for media? By Joshua Barajas, Corinne Segal Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire, revealed this week that he funded Hulk Hogan's winning $140 million lawsuit against Gawker Media. Continue reading
May 19 Morley Safer, CBS newsman for over five decades, dies at age 84 By Laura Santhanam Veteran journalist Morley Safer died at age 84 after a period of declining health, CBS News reported Thursday. Continue reading
May 10 Senate Republicans ask Facebook to explain reports it excluded conservative topics By Associated Press Senate Republicans on Tuesday demanded an explanation from Facebook after reports that former company staffers excluded links to conservative political stories. A senior Facebook executive said the company has found no evidence to back up the anonymous allegations. Continue reading
Apr 27 Column: Why click-bait will be the death of journalism By Jeffrey Dvorkin Journalism is once again in crisis, and this time, the sky really does seem to be falling. What went wrong?… Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch 6:51 This online pioneer sees a future where everything is internet By PBS News Hour In the 30 years since Steve Case co-founded AOL, the global tech landscape has seen immense growth and change. What new developments wait in the near future, and what does the rapidly expanding online world mean for human life? Case… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch 6:01 How the AP uncovered secret slavery behind the seafood in your supermarket By PBS News Hour An 18-month investigation into the use of slave labor in southeast Asia to bring seafood to American restaurants and supermarkets earned the Associated Press a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Since the report was made public, more than 2,000 slaves… Continue watching
Apr 19 Watch 6:28 Washington Post honored for deep dive into fatal police shootings By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch 11:33 How Donald Trump turned media spectacle into campaign wins By PBS News Hour Donald Trump, front-runner for the GOP nomination, has been able to turn celebrity and controversy into nearly $2 billion in free media attention this election cycle. What’s driving his appeal and how has the electorate changed? Gwen Ifill talks to… Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch 6:40 How TMZ is changing the business of celebrity gossip By PBS News Hour Of all the gossip sites, TMZ goes beyond many of the tabloids by offering documentary-based celebrity news, where claims are backed up by evidence like court documents and raw cellphone footage. The New Yorker's Nicholas Schmidle sits down with Jeffrey… Continue watching