journalism

Seventeen years had come and gone, and our roles had changed. By 1995, Bob Timberg was no longer a political reporter chasing suspected corruption in Baltimore

By Dan Rodricks

Sep 8, 2016

Robert R. "Bob" Timberg, a former Evening Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter and Marine Corps veteran whose 1995 book "The Nightingale's Song" about five Naval Academy graduates who served in the Vietnam War earned him wide acclaim, died Tuesday from respiratory failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 76.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 8, 2016

With the recent uptick of demonstrations and activism on college campuses — in Baltimore especially, but also nationwide as issues surrounding Black Lives Matter and Title IX come to the forefront — student newspapers have a vital, yet delicate, role to play. As Cody Boteler, editor-in-chief of The Towson Towerlight, says: "Often, if something truly significant happens on campus — like when a couple of students occupied the president's office, for example — nobody is

Dissent and protest, my fellow Americans, is in the very DNA of this country. Colin Kaepernick is therefore the ultimate patriot, caring enough about his very flawed nation to call it out for its failings and shaming the rest of us into engaging with the issues he raises.

By E.R. Shipp

Sep 6, 2016

Press credibility takes another hit with the disclosure that ABC's George Stephanopoulos donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

The Laurel High School newspaper staff has earned about 40 awards in just the past ten years, according to Robert Giuliani, an English and journalism teacher at Laurel High.

James L. Bradley, an influential and beloved English teacher who taught at Owings Mills High School for more than 30 years, died Saturday at Carroll Hospital Center of complications from Lyme disease. He was 67.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

May 4, 2015

Jonah Goldberg: Entitlement and machine politics fueled foreign donations and fees to the Clintons.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The GOP has cynically nurtured, used and manipulated ignorance for political gain.

After a week of cable and network news providing most of the best TV coverage of protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, the national outlets were mainly missing in action tonight when things got ugly.

By David Zurawik

Apr 26, 2015

Baltimore Sun crime reporter Justin George on April 21 was named a Public Service Journalism fellow at Marquette University and will spend the 2015-16 academic year in Milwaukee leading a team of student journalists to produce stories "with the potential to change policies and lives," the school said.

By Colin Campbell

Apr 21, 2015

A Baltimore Sun series about police brutality was recognized by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

We expect more from a publication like Rolling Stone, which has a professional editorial apparatus in place.

Rolling Stone screwed up. Its failure was a group effort, from editor-in-chief Jann Wenner on down. The best thing you can say about this fiasco is that there was little deliberate lying involved.

The sad truth is that, for all its power to foster commerce and connect us socially, the Internet is also home to repulsive and menacing forms of intimidation directed at both sexes. Its shadowy corners are safe havens for misogynists and other vile people.

By Thomas F. Schaller

Mar 31, 2015

Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg followed his blistering Facebook post on Saturday about Bill O'Reilly with an appearance Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

By David Zurawik

Feb 22, 2015

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has been denouncing a "Mother Jones" story questioning his combat reporting during the Falklands conflict in 1982 as a "partisan hit job" since it was published Thursday.

By David Zurawik

Feb 21, 2015

NBC should put Brian Williams back on the street as a reporter to regain credibility, says Jules Witcover.

Asking GOP politicians the evolution question is not about religion, but the culture war, says Jonah Goldberg.

Susan Reimer on how Jon Stewart changed the news, unpacking politics and current events for us while exposing pundits and politicians for the naked emperors they were.

By Susan Reimer

Feb 12, 2015

The confession of NBC news anchor Brian Williams that he lied — or as he put it "conflated" — about being aboard an Army helicopter shot down in Iraq in 2003 has revived the issue of a prominent television journalist's credibility, especially one sitting almost as an icon in one of today's coveted network anchor chairs.

By Jules Witcover

Feb 9, 2015

Centennial girls basketball player Anna Mitchell talks about this season, and her background in sports and singing

There are some who think of the events in Ferguson as isolated, as simply a moment in time. To me it seemed like part of the continuum in the struggle for progress in our country. When I interviewed King's aides, they were always quick to mention that the civil rights movement didn't die with King. And we still have far to go before we achieve full equality among America's citizens.

Saudi Arabia is not our ally in the war on terror. Their inhumane treatment of their own people enables, facilitates and inspires jihadists like the ones whose most recent targets were the journalists in Paris and the innocent clientele of a kosher grocery store on the outskirts of the French capital.

Without the freedom to offend -- even in the most outrageous way -- freedom is circumscribed and tepid.

Gilbert L. "Gil" Watson III, a former longtime Baltimore Sun editor who led the metropolitan staff during a period of groundbreaking watchdog reporting, has died.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 12, 2015

Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter, who made international headlines after threatening a local news reporter with a lawsuit over using his name in articles "without authorization," apologized Wednesday for his comments.

By Colin Campbell

Jan 7, 2015

Biggest stories of the year didn't need traditional news outlets

By David Zurawik

Dec 26, 2014

In the end, 'Serial' leaves Zurawik frustrated, even annoyed

By David Zurawik

Dec 18, 2014

56-year-old Ellicott City resident Bill Vanko is a wildlife photographer, training the lens of his Canon 7D on varied landscapes to capture and illuminate strikingly intricate images. His inquisitiveness, he notes, dovetails perfectly with his full-time job as a news anchor and reporter for WBAL radio.

The story behind her story of Adnan Syed, Hae Min Lee

Kudos to Tony Glaros for his November 13 column "A Visit With Mom is Sobering, But Also Fun."

There is more media than ever covering American political life. And with each major election, the coverage seems to get worse ¿ or, at least, more confused and misguided.

By David Zurawik

Nov 5, 2014