Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

Walter Cronkite defined the role of the TV news anchorman and won America’s trust. We look at Cronkite and television news, then and now.

Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, imprisoned in Iran, and, her parents say, on hunger strike. We take up her case and the intrigue around it.

Vivian Schiller — the tip-top boss of NPR — joins us for a conversation on the future of public radio and to take your calls.

All attitude — TV, and the world after the late Tim Russert.

There was an amazing intergenerational moment on air last week, as former NBC TV news anchor Tom Brokaw faced cable talker Chris Matthews in the egg-on-the-face aftermath of the media’s New Hampshire miscall.
Clinton had won, not Obama as predicted, and Brokaw suggested that just maybe America’s political pundits were going to have to cool their [...]

When it comes to network TV news, we are not in Kansas anymore. We’re far from the high, proud heyday. This weekend, NBC News anchor Brian Williams will host Saturday Night Live. We wonder if Walter Cronkite will be watching.
For a solid string of decades, the networks’ evening news was the glamorous national campfire, where [...]