A messy quarrel between two Seattle papers has focused attention on the strange world of Joint Operating Agreements. These agreements make it possible for cities to be two-paper towns when they probably could support only one. Slate.com columnist Daniel Gross explains to Brooke why he thinks JOAs should go the ...

Since the Jayson Blair fiasco recently came to light, many have wondered why the mountain of factual inaccuracies in that reporter's stories hadn't raised a red flag earlier. Its probably because mistakes aren't all that uncommon -- about half of all newspaper articles contain at least one. OTM's John Solomon ...

Plenty of eyebrows were raised this week after The New York Times ran a front-page story about incriminating revelations by an Iraqi chemical weapons scientist. In the article, reporter Judith Miller wrote that "the terms of her accreditation" prevented her from interviewing the scientist, and required that she submit her ...

For Chicago's public housing residents, the biggest local story of the past few years has been the demolition of the city's infamous high-rise projects. One newspaper has diligently covered the story from the inside - literally. OTM's Ron Feemster has the story of The Residents' Journal - a paper that ...

Every so often, newspaper editors turn to their readers for advice on re-arranging their comic strips. But Cleveland Plain Dealer Features Editor Elizabeth McIntyre recently learned that many readers don't take the changes lightly. Why are the funnies so important to people? And why are they so…un-funny?

The New York Herald Tribune died in 1965, but the European edition survived and was jointly produced by The Washington Post and The New York Times… until now. After a bitter internal struggle between the two heavyweights, the Times beat out the Post and took sole ownership of the 115-year ...

Joining a local school board. Wearing a political campaign button. Participating in a protest march. These are some of the things that staffers at The New York Times will not be permitted to do under the paper's new ethics code. Brooke discusses the new rules with the Poynter Institute's Bob ...

In a series called "After the Media," reporters from the Allentown, PA daily newspaper, "The Morning Call" return to the victims of tragedy, scandal, and other media feeding-frenzies, so that they can describe the experience of being trapped in the camera's lens. Brooke talks with journalists Margie Peterson, who came ...

Tabloid papers like the New York Post depend on big, splashy headlines to push newsstand sales. And there's a real science to crafting them. Which headlines work better than others? Michael Shain and Mike Pearl, both veteran tabloid journalists, have created a card game called "Man Bites Dog," bringing the ...

With 32 stories in three months about the Augusta National's exclusion of women, many have accused the New York Times of leading a personal crusade against the golf tournament. When the Times spiked two recent stories that disagreed with the editorial page on the matter those same critics asked whether ...

The White House pool report is a brief synopsis of events, written by a designated reporter, to be used by the press corps. Whereas the pool report used to be circulated strictly among pool reporters, now the reports are circulated widely in email to just about anyone who wants it—journalist ...

Last week, the New York Times reported that attendance at Saturday’s peace protest in Washington fell below organizers’ expectations. Later in the week, the Times, along with several other news outlets that had reported similarly on the crowd estimates, corrected itself, reporting that actually the numbers had swelled far above ...

Josh Hammer, Newsweek’s Jerusalem bureau chief, has reported twice from Iraq this year. He says that print reporters face tremendous difficulty in Iraq, but that television reporters have it even harder. Josh Hammer speaks from Jerusalem with host Bob Garfield.

It doesn’t take international recognition to make a glowing obituary – just a fully lived life, and the right person to tell it. That’s what producer David Isay discovered, over a dozen years ago, when he dropped in on the obit-writing staff at the New York Times.

If the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction is true, it may be because fiction is often thoroughly researched. Laura Lippman, reporter-turned-mystery-novelist, recently noted that her fiction readers are far more concerned with accuracy in her crime novels than her newspaper readers ever seemed to be. Brooke speaks ...

House Majority Leader Dick Armey is flexing his political muscle when it comes to pushing policy that would force a major media property-owner in Texas to divest. Armey maintains that he's acting in the best interest of his constituency-but could the move have something to do with Armey's historical distaste ...

Twenty years ago this week, USAToday was born. The first national, general-interest daily newspaper revolutionized the way news was presented. Readers were drawn to its short stories and colorful graphics. Advertisers were not, and it took the Gannett company more than a decade to turn a profit. But it's profitable ...

When you read a newspaper, there are certain things you take for granted. The stories on the front cover, especially those above the fold, are usually the ones deemed by the editors to be the most important. So its confusing when a story hits the front page in, say, the ...

How did newspapers around the world react to the events in America this past year? Host Bob Garfield asks Alice Chasan, editor of World Press Review.

Sometimes journalism works. A loophole that the very rich used to avoid paying billions in taxes was closed just weeks after a story on it ran in the New York Times. Brooke talks to Times reporter David Cay Johnston about investigative journalism that gets results.