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A New Era for Books: The Random House-Penguin Merger Is Just the Start
The biggest publishing companies have an easy plan to save their industry: Get bigger
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Newsweek Might Be Doomed, but Newsweeklies Are Not
The failure of Newsweek to survive in print has been received as another sign that weekly news magazines are a dead business. But they're not. Just look around.
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Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well
Numbers show that the publishing industry is handling the rise of e-readers better than what folk knowledge might suggest.
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'Homeland' and 'No Easy Day' Make the Murky War on Terror Visible
Whether in fiction or nonfiction, audiences are gravitating towards media that makes America's enemies knowable.
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TV's Best News Show May Also Be Its Least Appreciated
Let's give PBS NewsHour the credit it deserves and needs.
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Remembering Ashbel Green, a Master of the Art of Editing
Green's patience and intuition made him a valued editor at Knopf for more than four decades.
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Paul Krugman and the Economics of Books
Depending on where you buy the columnist's new book, there's up to a $15 price variance -- one that hurts not just publishers and writers, but readers, too.
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Why the Public Still Needs Both the Media and the Conventions
The two supposedly irrelevant institutions both got an awful lot of attention over the past few weeks.
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The Cruel Paradox of Self-Publishing
Digital and print-on-demand technology has made self-publishing much easier. But for every self-published work that gains traction, the overwhelming majority of books don't.
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How 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Dominated Publishing
E.L. James' saucy novels sold 25 million copies in just four months--a benchmark that Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy didn't hit in four years.
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Fareed Zakaria and the Perils of Modern-Day Punditry
Is it really is possible to do so many things at once -- columns, daily blog posts, television appearances, Internet videos, books, and speeches? The journalists of old certainly focused their efforts more.
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Listening to Lyndon Johnson
The president's secret telephone recordings offer the world insight into his private views.
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Grim News, Any Way You Want It
So much has been written recently about the shortcomings of journalism, you would imagine that we are living in a virtual vacuum of information about world events. But is that really true?
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Adlai Stevenson, Even Today, Is Not Boring
Like Obama, the former presidential candidate was admired for his eloquence -- and went from obscurity to celebrity after he gave a speech to the Democratic convention.
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Forget Murdoch: British Journalism Is Still Great
Three terrific UK media outlets provide news to appeal to an audience with a serious interest in what is happening in every aspect of our immensely complicated world.
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In E-Book War, the Independent Publishers Strike Back
In the fight between Apple, Amazon, the government, and publishers to set prices for electronic books, independents were overlooked. Now, they're banding together and voicing complaints.
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Making News: Human Rights Watch
Starting from modest origins, the international arbiter has evolved into a well-respected -- and essential -- journalistic force.
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The Incredible Resilience of Books
Despite challenges faced by the publishing industry and past predictions, the written word has not seen its last day
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The Incredible Survival Story of the TV Advertisement
Technology increasingly allows viewers to skip advertisements all together. Yet networks are pushing back, and filing lawsuits, to maintain their revenue model. Which will win out?
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Is Philanthropy Print Journalism's Last Hope?
The Ford Foundation recently pledged $1.04 million to Los Angeles' struggling daily. We might be looking at the future of newspapers.
