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The idea that reporters have a duty to protect their sources has an honored place in journalistic lore. It goes without saying that Woodward and Bernstein would never have burned Deep Throat. In The Insider, 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman is tormented by the possibility that the tobacco industry whistle-blower he tried to shield might be harmed. And now, one of the more troublesome issues in...

When Carsten Juste decided to publish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten in September, he could not have imagined the fallout that would drag on almost to the year-end. A Pakistani fundamentalist party has announced a bounty for murdering the Danish cartoonists. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) made an issue of it at its recent summit. Srinagar downed shutters...

GWALIOR: You might have come across several newspapers writing on the plight of women, but have you ever heard about a paper run by women, for women and to women? If not, then come to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh to read through 'Mahila Paksh', India's first women centric newspaper, covering issues and subjects ranging from atrocities on women to their achievements in various fields. With reporters...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type -- the most popular software used to create professional blogs -- said on Sunday Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses. The partnership is the latest in a string of deals by the world's largest Internet media company as it seeks to embrace so-called "social media," the new...

NEW YORK - Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL and one of the main architects of the disastrous AOL-Time Warner combination, now says the world's biggest media company should be broken up into four business units. Case, who became a lightning rod for angry investors following the debacle, laid out his argument for breaking up Time Warner Inc. in an essay published in The Washington Post on Sunday...

OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS, marketers have enthused non-stop about the potential of blogs as an ad medium. They've gushed over the authenticity of bloggers' voices, heralded the diversity of viewpoints, and rhapsodized about the affluent, educated audience blogs attract. But when it comes to actually pulling the trigger on ad deals, many online media firms--epecially those representing companies in...

More than anyone else in the media universe, author and Washington Post editor Bob Woodward, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, Detroit Free-Press sports columnist Mitch Albom and Newsweek magazine had a year to forget. Woodward and Miller were Pulitzer recipients. Albom is an award-winning sportswriter and a best-selling author to boot. Newsweek won the magazine industry's coveted...

PEOPLE may not be keen on consuming the fruits of journalism - ratings, circulation and polling numbers make that plain - but put them in a darkened movie house and the craft suddenly becomes riveting. Journalists play a role in a surprising number of movies that are rounding out the year and may well be around at Oscar time. "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Capote" take journalists as their chief...

The students in my advanced reporting class are among the few students at Emory University who hold a newspaper (other than the campus semi-weekly) in their hands when they read it. The only reason they do is because I require them to bring The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to class, rather than access it online, and I give them occasional pop quizzes to make sure they're reading it. They don't...

It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility. A man in Nashville has admitted that, in trying to shock a colleague with a joke, he put false information into a Wikipedia entry about John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. Brian Chase, 38...