Frederick County (Maryland) Councilman Kirby Delauter is upset with the local newspaper, the Frederick News-Post. In a Facebook post, he threatened to sue the paper for using his name without authorization. It’s po...

In Poynter’s annual roundup of the funniest,...  ...news sites, and blogs. Oh yeah, and some serious journalism

Text can tell stories, but a picture is worth a thousand words, and will provoke emotions in a way text cannot. You may recall how photographs and video from Vietnam turned the tide of public opinion against the war. Pho...

In May of 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies and ended the war in Europe. Big news, huh? It was news that the U.S. military wanted to censor, because they wanted to control the timing. It sounds ridiculous now, but...

(Photo: Ian Lamont)There’s putting words on...  ...and a world of difference between them. Longform journalism requires good writing and, specifically, good sto...

(Photo: Shubhra Gupta)There's dire news from India. The newspaper The Indian Express warns us that "headline awaited." It declared this fact in all eight regional editions, indicating that the entire nation faces this cr...

Two of the most popular superheroes work in journalism . Peter Parker (Spider-Man), is a photojournalist...

Anti-protest laws passed by the Ukranian government brought people to the streets of Kiev in a massive protest rally that has turned into a full blown riot with no end in sight.The Ukranian government has tried to limit...

North Korea is such a mysterious country that the information most people take as facts are simply myths and bits of misinformation, and the country’s cagey leader Kim Jong Un, like his father before him, wouldn&rs...

Ben Orlin at Math with Bad Drawings studied both math and psychology, so it only makes sense that he would look at sensationalist headlines with a jaundiced eye. He published a collection of typical headlines that would...