Outside the Beltway

A generation of kids with massive student loans and no prospects is bad news for the status quo.

POLITICO is joining the stampede toward metered paywalls. In a twist, it will remain free in regions where it’s most popular.

The reality of gun violence in the United States is far different from the story the media is telling us.

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

A Fox News reporter may go to jail for refusing to reveal a source. Should journalists have an absolute testimonial privilege?

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

There’s no money in wri

So, whoever approves cover art at Bloomberg BusinessWeek thought this was a good idea.

The Hagel confirmation, like Obama’s election, was big news to some avid news consumers.

How he went from Juicebox Mafia member to the most important young journalist in DC.

The world’s most prolific blogger is leaving corporate media and opening the tip jar.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?

Did NBC’s David Gregory violate D.C. law on Sunday?

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

There aren’t enough readers who want political reporting that’s “more substantive than POLITICO and much more sophisticated than C.Q.” and willing to pay for it.

As is often the case with sex scandals, pretty much everything ever written about General David Petraeus takes on an ironic double meaning in hindsight.

Is the triumph of political forecasting good for our democracy?

Newsweek is joining US News in getting out of the printed magazine business, leaving Time as the last old American newsweekly standing.

Don’t blame the Defense Department for following a bad law.

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

There are signs that some Romney supporters have already decided their candidate is going to lose.

Not exactly journalism.

Good journalism? Or, bad ethics?

Public distrust of the media is at an all-time high. It’s easy to see why.

Seth Mnookin laments a series of embarrassing failures in science writing in recent months but rejoices in the rich dialog that followed.

Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.

NYT executive editor Jill Abramson is shocked that her outgoing public editor thinks her paper “virtually bleeds” a “kind of political and cultural progressivism.”

A culture of fact-checking, of honesty, is as important as the actual fact-checking.

When and how often must they disclose their relationship? And can we take them seriously at all?

Publishing unsubstantiated rumor is not journalism.

The campaign silly season took a trip across the pond.

Because of a culture where being first is more important than being right, ABC News made a few mistakes in its Friday morning coverage of the Colorado shootings.

Reporters covering the 2012 election are letting the campaigns control what they report to a disturbing degree.

Add journalism to the list of professions Americans don’t seem to have much confidence in.

The election is about the economy. The economy is awful. Yet the incumbent still holds a slight lead.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.