Turning a Critical Lens on Television News
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A former producer at "20/20" mimics Michael Moore in his aims but not his showmanship in this messy broadside against network news divisions.
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How an irreverent Internet news channel is shaking up British politics
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Most of American journalism pays at least lip service to the idea that news reporting should be impartial. But New York Cityâs tabloids do not always feel bound by that rule.
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Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
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24-hour television news culture prizes emotion over reasoned argument and live reportage over uncovering stories, claims presenter.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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NBC, CBS and ABC - have provided news and entertainment to American television viewers for decades. Each network broadcasts the evening news at 6
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.
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As television viewers paid increasing attention this year to the presidential race, they often sought out more politically opinionated talk, at least on cable.
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Following the news can really get you bruised.
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In Rupert Murdoch's world, not all journalism is created equal.
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Can newscasts retain the college crowd beyond the elections?
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A US study compares the news agenda of the mainstream media with that of three user-driven sources.
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The week in review from our media and entertainment editor.
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How two words illuminate the shift of power from the media to the people
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AOL presents its own take on blogging the news.