David Zurawik

The media critic has engaged our readers for decades. He will be missed.

Tucker Carlson's celebration of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán might not be so alarming if American democracy was not at such a precarious point.

While the term talking heads is often used with some derision, I think this is where the real power and credibility of some of the best documentaries resides. And this HBO production on the life of Barack Obama is no exception.

Instead of an agent of intimidation, Rep. Jim Jordan is becoming an object of media ridicule.

As powerful as the opening day testimony was, don't expect the hearings on the Jan. 6th storming of the Capitol to change anything in Washington. It's a media thing.

It is now clear that Dr. Walensky and the White House clearly oversold what vaccinated people could safely do.

Veteran journalist and educator Jacqueline Jones is named dean of Morgan State University's School of Global Journalism and Communication.

“Audible” starts out looking like it is going to be a sports film about the football team at the Maryland School for the Deaf. But it turns out to be so much more.

After 50 years in television news, WBAL anchorman Stan Stovall says he will retire in 2022.

The solutions to our problems are not going to be found in suborbital space or in blindly celebrating rich guys like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.

The new season of "Unforgotten" starts with the discovery of a headless corpse that might have been in a freezer for 30 years. How’s that for a cold case?

WEAA-FM talk show to “showcase analysis and commentaries by former mayors Sheila Dixon and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, former police commissioners Darryl De Sousa and Anthony Barksdale and a variety of other officials," according to a station new release.

There will be no healing in this country as long as Mr. Trump is out on the stump preaching his gospel of lies to his army of angry and aggrieved disciples.

Through interviews with artists and attendees, keen historical analysis and archival film beyond that of the festival, director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson has created a musically-charged social document that captures what it felt like in the summer of 1969 to be young and alive at a time of great cultural change in music, fashion, politics and, most of all, civil rights.

In decades of writing about media, outside the world of tabloid journalism, I have not seen a title for a public affairs program quite like WBFF's “Baltimore is Dying."

“If we allow Agent Orange to be forgotten, then the tragedy of pesticides will continue," Tran To Nga, one of the protagonists of the documentary "The People Vs. Agent Orange," says in the film that premieres Monday on PBS.

I want to thank Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Maryland U.S. Rep. Andy Harris for providing me with some clarity. Really.

A friendly interview on "Morning Joe" and 262,000 views for the launch video on Twitter give Wes Moore a strong media start.

Maybe the reason that American TV is so devoid of highly moral characters like Ted Hastings in the Brit police drama "Line of Duty" is that too many of us have lost or chosen to ignore our moral compasses

Why can’t C-SPAN put a clear warning on the screen about Trump’s proven lies when it carries his speeches?

Facebook's action might sound tough, but is not nearly enough given the perilous moment our democracy now finds itself in thanks in large part to Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.

There is a reason TV viewing and streaming subscriptions soared during the pandemic. We relate to those screens in deep and fundamental ways. That’s about us, just as much or more than it is about TV.

Public radio listeners feel a sense of ownership of stations like WTMD. You can bet listeners will let its new owner know of their displeasure at pledge time if they don’t like what they hear at 89.7 on the FM dial.

WYPR, which specializes in news and talk, will allow WTMD to continue its musical format, according to a joint release from the stations.

"Tulsa Burning" and "Dreamland" are in part about dominant culture and who controls the power to tell the stories of our past or decide which ones should be hidden or never told.

Reporting isn't always enough. You have to clearly condemn words and actions like those of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia.

PBS and NBC programs on Tulsa's racial history show how streaming helps make us smarter about our shared past.

Has any TV drama ever used music as effectively as "This Is Us," which ends Season 5 Tuesday?

Progressive coalition tells advertisers in open letter: "Stop funding lies and hate; don’t buy ads on Fox News.”

The awful response by medical and public health professionals leading our response to COVID has been a huge and dangerous problem throughout the pandemic.