Celebrity death reporting on the Internet can be tricky. USA Today learned that lesson the hard way on Tuesday. The newspaper tweeted out that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy had died, only to quickly learn that it had been fooled by a fake … Read More
Paper bad. TV good. Platforms dominant. That’s the overarching message of the Pew Research Center’s “State of the News Media” report issued on Wednesday. The annual study takes a close look at the U.S. news industry. It’s a particularly big … Read More
August 1908 “Newsboys waiting for the Baseball edition, in a newspaper office. Bad environment… Indianapolis, Indiana.” Image: Lewis Hine/Library of Congress In the early 20th century, Lewis Hine photographed thousands of child laborers in the name of progressive social reform, … Read More
As Belgium reeled from Tuesday’s deadly terror attacks, the Wednesday editions of newspapers across the world paired the terror with the indelible images now associated with the attacks. SEE ALSO: Stunned survivors try to make sense of Belgium attacks Have … Read More