Apr 15 Watch Editors’ Views on Iraq Margaret Warner gets media perspectives from around the country on the Bush administration's responses to security concerns in Iraq, the decision to extend some U.S. troop deployments there and other developments from four editorial page editors. Continue watching
Apr 13 Justice Scalia Apologizes to Reporters, Revises Print Media Policy By Admin Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia apologized for the confiscation of two reporters' audiotapes by a deputy U.S. marshal during a public speech in Mississippi, and promised to allow print journalists to record his public speeches in the future. Continue reading
Apr 05 Pulitzer Prizes Awarded; L.A. Times Wins Five The 2004 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, with the Los Angeles Times taking home the greatest number of honors, including an award for its breaking news coverage of the wildfires that ravaged Southern California last fall. Continue reading
Apr 02 Watch Hidden Truth The Toledo Blade published a series about the atrocities the U.S. Army unit Tiger Force committed during the Vietnam War in 1967, but as quickly as the revelations came out, they quietly disappeared. Terence Smith looks at the Blade's determination… Continue watching
Mar 31 New Liberal Radio Network Debuts By PBS News Hour In a challenge to the dominance of conservative talk radio programs, Air America Radio, the new liberal talk radio network, went on the air Wednesday. Continue reading
Mar 30 U.S. Takes Responsibility for Shooting Deaths of Two Iraqi Journalists The U.S. Army accepted responsibility for the shooting deaths of an Iraqi reporter and cameraman near a roadblock in Baghdad earlier this month, but said soldiers were acting within the rules of engagement and killed the journalists by accident. Continue reading
Mar 30 Watch In Memoriam: Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke, a broadcasting legend on both shores of the Atlantic, died of heart failure yesterday in New York City. Cooke reported his radio program "Letter from America" each week for 58 years on the BBC, and American audiences knew… Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch Public Testimony President Bush agreed Tuesday to allow national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly before the 9/11 commission. Two members of the 9/11 commission discuss this about-face. Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch Public Testimony President Bush agreed to allow national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly before the 9/11 commission. Margaret Warner speaks with New York Times White House correspondent David Sanger about the bipartisan pressure which led the White House to reverse… Continue watching
Mar 29 Closure of Shiite Newspaper in Baghdad Sparks Protests U.S. troops on Sunday temporarily closed a popular Baghdad newspaper after coalition authorities accused the Shiite Muslim weekly of printing lies that incited violence. Continue reading