The denial of service attack happened in Belarus -- not exactly a beacon of the free press or free speech to begin with -- but also knocked out other websites ... Read More

The annual White House correspondents' dinner rolled around Saturday night, and everyone was anxious about what President Bush would say -- especially since the evening was his swan song. (And ... Read More

Ahh, the irony: Beijing hosts the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (wrapping up today) just a few kilometers from where its record number of cyberdissidents sit behind bars. To ... Read More

As most journalists must at some point or another in their careers, I covered the schools beat for a short time. This mainly consisted of sitting through arduous school-board meetings, ... Read More

A sobering reminder that, as the journey of the Olympic torch has so ably served to raise consciousness about the plight of Tibet, there are journalists and writers in need ... Read More

Here's the press release from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., who acquired Dow Jones after a long and stormy courtship last year: "Marcus Brauchli, Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal and ... Read More

But Hillary Clinton leads in the polls. So what does that say that about how much -- or, er, little -- weight the public places on the decision of an ... Read More

And not just that, but the Russian president's alleged intentions to marry a 24-year-old gymnast in a summer wedding. Vladimir Putin denied the story at a Friday press conference with ... Read More

Say what you will politically about the vice president, but one can't deny that Dick Cheney has a good self-deprecating sense of humor and knows how to yuk it up ... Read More

This raises some interesting questions about what newsies can do in the blogosphere, especially concerning sites that aren't officially linked to their newspapers. From Editor & Publisher: "Michael Tunison, who blogged ... Read More

Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi who began working for the Associated Press as a photographer in 2004 and was arrested two years later, is set to be released Wednesday, the U.S. ... Read More

This is a great way to protest the controversial reform of Slovakia's press law, which ensures that a government ministry has control over media coverage it deems sensitive: "Most of Slovakia's ... Read More

Not to mention the spectators and protesters -- including the ones in trees -- who showed up Wednesday to catch the Olympic torch coming through San Francisco. The original torch ... Read More

Ever since three folks climbed to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday to unfurl a pro-Tibet banner, the San Francisco Olympic torch run -- the only North ... Read More

Roger Ebert, the legendary Chicago Sun-Times film critic who has battled cancer affecting his salivary and thyroid glands, is returning to work after marking his 41st anniversary at the paper. ... Read More

On Jan. 31, automotive journalist Frank Washington, who runs the site AboutThatCar.com, was mugged walking near his Detroit home. Detroit Free Press columnist Mark Phelan has a touching column today ... Read More

Mugabe's government is still holding a New York Times correspondent seized Thursday, the same day opposition offices were raided. And they're showing no signs of intending to release Pulitzer Prize-winner ... Read More

The Web site UWIRE is accepting nominations through April 11 for the 100 hottest college journalists, with a focus on work done in the 2007-08 school year: "UWIRE is seeking to ... Read More

It was no April Fools' joke, but on Tuesday a major journalism journal was taking the media to task for not calling out Barack Obama on a campaign stump point: ... Read More

Did anyone really think that Robert Mugabe, even if he had only gotten one percent of the vote, would go down without a fight? Democracy, after all, isn't exactly in ... Read More

And this isn't a joke. Really. The 10,000-circulation Vail Daily took their tradition of printing a faux story or two on April 1 to new heights today, with an eight-page ... Read More