On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the ...

I’ve written previously for Poynter about my fondness for covering the quadrennial Democratic and Republican conventions. Recently, I realized that some of my souvenirs from those conventions ...

The death of Kerri Abatti is a tragedy of the highest order. A life has been lost, a family has been irreparably harmed, and a community is left searching for answers. Nothing about that reality ...

William Randolph Hearst wasn’t just the scion of the Hearst dynasty—he was a king-making media magnate. But his penchant for sensational “yellow” journalism, rivalries with competing newspapers, and ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today's essay is by Brad Davis, associate ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 1992, a writer named Douglas Rushkoff signed a contract for Cyberia, his book about the internet subcultures of the West ...

The Georgia Bulldogs have an opportunity to make series history this year in their rivalry with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The final week of the college football regular season has arrived, ...

1. THE BEGINNING (1859 – Early 1900s): The history of journalism in Nigeria dates back to 1859, when Rev. Henry Townsend, a missionary of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), established the first ...

For years, the annual edition of the Old Farmer’s Almanac hung from a nail in my grandparents’ downstairs bathroom, and I was very upset to briefly believe on Friday that it was shutting down after ...

WSJ’s Dov Lieber reports from Gaza as the U.S. considers a plan to divide it into separate zones. Photo: Dov Lieber GAZA CITY—The Israeli military is digging in along the cease-fire line inside Gaza, ...

It's almost impossible to understand the significance of most news events without having a grasp of history. Whether you are trying to understand what it means to have military troops patrolling ...