On June 28, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Both CNN and Fox News, in an effort to break the news qui...

Imagine you had lived all your life without TV, but after seeing it once, you had to explain television to other people who had never seen one. Buzzfeed collected clips from newspapers that announced the new technolo...

The Onion, as most of you know, is a satirical news site that publishes fictional news stories that hits uncomfortably close to home. Every once in a while, some news outlet unknowingly uses it as a source, with major em...

Here at Neatorama, we try to link to the original work whenever possible. For science stories, this is sometimes impossible because original science research papers are often unreadable. It makes more sense to link to an...

What is going on in this photo that briefly appeared on the website of The New Hampshire Union-Leader? Thanks to a screenshot grabbed by Jason Linkins of The Huffington Post, we know that the caption read: Firefighter...

You laughed at the correction we posted yesterday,  but now we have the full story. The author of the New York Times article, Amy Harmon, explained how it all came about. The Times’ rule is, we correct anything that...

Simon Eroro, an Australian journalist, really want...  ...at he went to to get the story, Eroro won a local journalism award: In his subsequent reporting for the Pos...

This headline shows why it is so important for journalists to read their work before submitting it in order to make sure it comes out right. That or else these really were some incredibly hip microbes. http://lord...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Giant 10th Anniversary Bathroom Reader. The media's power to "create" news has become a hot topic in recent years. But it's nothing new. This true story, from a book calle...

In the days before the internet (actually 1912-1963), Bostonians could get news headlines at a glance by dropping by the storefront office of The Boston Globe. Handwritten signs and blackboards had the top stories, break...