William Powers

Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay are giving Hollywood celebrities a run for their money.

Tech news these days is a sort of comfort food—happy talk about happy new products.

Government and media are always struggling for power. So who's winning now?

Journalists have been making savage love to Google for several years now. Will it last?

Bad news for the media: The real estate bubble is fading away as a story.

Why are some journalists giddily celebrating Bob Woodward's fall from grace?

Barack Obama is the one Democrat who elicits a McCain-like swoon from media people.

If you can stand the narcissism, it's instructive to watch Baby Boomers grow old through the media.

Why is the race to be first still such a dominant force in journalism? After all, times have changed.

There are good reasons to view media scandals as encouraging developments.

When it comes to scandals, The New York Times and the Catholic Church have a lot in common.

The controversy over her nomination highlights the credentialism debate at issue throughout society, including the news business.

In the media's telling, the Bush White House is becoming That '70s Show.

When there's a real disaster, celebrity journalists can distract needlessly from an urgent story.

The Wall Street Journal's new Weekend Edition, which made its debut last Saturday, is like a scary cyborg of The Journal—it has a convincing, lifelike resemblance, but no heart or soul inside.

Mega-stories have their own life cycles. And they often disappear before we should be done with them.

Katrina let news people step into the classic roles journalists have been playing since time began.

The media are missing the mark in using Peter Jennings's death to lament the state of network news.

The BBC News Web site feels the way great newspapers have always felt—vital, intelligent, crisp, and lucid.

David Shaw of the Los Angeles Times helped change the way the media covers the abortion debate.