Aug 16 Watch Author Disconnects From Communication Devices to Reconnect With Life In this day and age, much communication is done by e-mail, text messages, Twitter and other forms of digital communication. William Powers, author of "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," explains how… Continue watching
Aug 13 Leaning Left and Right: Why Labels Won't Help This Year OK, folks, it's time for another of my periodic forays into definitional politics. To accomplish this, I have to take my own profession to task - and then rise to its defense. The problem: we reach too easily for shorthand. Continue reading
Aug 11 Pew Report: U.S. Broadband Adoption Slows, but Blacks Gain Ground The Pew Internet & American Life Project released its Home Broadband 2010 Report Wednesday, revealing a dramatic slowing of broadband adoption by Americans this year, but showing notable growth in use by blacks. Among the findings were statistics… Continue reading
Aug 02 Arizona Dispatch: SB 1070 Through a Photojournalist's Lens PHOENIX | When Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070, was signed into law in April, it was just a normal day for Arizona Republic photographer Nick Oza. He was out shooting other events for the newspaper when he got the… Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch Jean-Michel Cousteau Dives Into Tales of Famous Father's Legacy Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of the famous oceanographer, has written a new book, "My Father, the Captain: My Life With Jacques Cousteau," about his father's legacy and his relationship with him as a friend, confidante and employee. Jeffrey Brown has more. Continue watching
Jul 30 Poynter Editor on WikiLeaks' Global Leverage, Playing by Its Own Rules By Hari Sreenivasan On this edition of NewsHour Plus, we check in with Steve Myers, managing editor of Poynter Online, a training facility for journalists, who wrote this week about how WikiLeaks is changing the power structure in the news… Continue reading
Jul 30 Gwen's Take: Toxic Conversations By Gwen Ifill A few years ago, my friends Mark Halperin, now of Time Magazine, and John Harris, now of Politico, coined the term "freak show" as a catchall for the fever that overtakes those of us in the information gathering business from… Continue reading
Jul 27 A Closer Look at WikiLeaks' Past, Future By Dave Gustafson While some cheer the mission of the WikiLeaks website and the secret material it has disclosed, the site continues to rankle U.S. government officials who say it poses threats to national security, lives and diplomatic matters. Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch Wartime Security Breach of Afghan War Files Concerns Senators Jim Lehrer speaks with Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Republican Kit Bond of Missouri about national security concerns about WikiLeaks publishing sensitive information about the Afghan war and potentially helping enemies. Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch WikiLeaks Documents Go Public: Where Should Journalists Draw the Line? Some have questioned whether WikiLeaks and major news organizations publishing the secret documents compromised the safety of American lives. Judy Woodruff gets perspective from two journalists on what is considered when publishing sensitive information. Continue watching