Outside the Beltway

Can ESPN cover sports while partnering with the sports leagues?

There are again reports of Chinese frustration with the Kim regime in North Korea, but change is unlikely to happen in the DPRK until Beijing is ready to let it happen.

A hostage crisis has been unfolding overnight at a cafe in Sydney, Australia that has apparent links to international terrorism.

An utter journalistic failure from Rolling Stone.

The next President will have a profound ability to shape the future of the Supreme Court, but that is unlikely to be the most important issue on voters minds in 2016.

The City of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho will not force two Christian ministers to open their wedding chapel business to same-sex wedding ceremonies.

The passing of a true legend in American journalism.

Rich guys are backing organizations that are taking over traditional party functions. Is that a problem?

The F.C.C. will be considering a petition to ban the word “Redskins” from the airwaves.

The nation’s newspaper of record is slashing its reporting team.

A major escalation.

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

A unanimous Supreme Court rules that the Fourth Amendment bars police from searching your electronic device without a warrant.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

The editors of our great newspapers are interchangeable.

The Associated Press doesn’t want its reporters to get too wordy.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.

The news gets worse.

Adding paywalls isn’t stopping the decline of the newspaper industry.

Politics, media, and the attention span of the average American haven’t really changed as much as we think.

Let’s think about how the media operates.

After eight years in a coma, Ariel Sharon has passed away.

Without a deal of some kind, it’s quite likely that Edward Snowden will remain beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement or some time to come.

The Justice Department is reportedly not planning to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in connection with the Bradley Manning case.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

For a guy who just bought a newspaper, Jeff Bezos wasn’t too optimistic about their future less than a year ago.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

A business move that signals the continuing death of the newspaper industry.

ABC News selectively edited their interview with Juror B29 to give a false impression of what she said.

A new study says Twitter doesn’t break news faster than the wires. But nobody claims it does.

The French were indignant about reports of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Now we know they have own of their own.

Public trust in the news media, along with many other institutions, continues to fall. That’s troublesome for many reasons.