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Roger Ailes tenure as the leader of Fox News may be coming to an end, according to a report by Gabriel Sherman of "New York" magazine.

By David Zurawik

Jul 18, 2016

ABC News can continue in its see-no-evil, hear-no-evil stance on George Stephanopolous and his undisclosed $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation forever if it wants. But I guarantee you the network is going to pay when it comes to credibility during the 2016 campaign season if it does.

By David Zurawik

May 24, 2015

Tribune Publishing names former New York Times exec to head up digital

Schaller's biased view of Fox News coverage

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

Hillary Clinton's word regarding her emails is not nearly enough given Clinton history, says Cal Thomas.

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

I had a ringside seat for this TV moment today when Fox News host Bill O'Reilly came out swinging on "Media Buzz" against Eric Engberg and a Facebook post the former CBS newsman wrote Saturday about O'Reilly's performance as a coprrespondent in Argentina as the Falklands War ende

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

French indignation over Fox News inaccuracies highlights our own waning capacity for moral outrage, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

The Ravens divisional round game against the Patriots has fans and the media in both locales buzzing, with anticipation to face a familiar foe taking hold in Baltimore while something resembling fear has swept New England.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 6, 2015

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

By David Zurawik

Dec 26, 2014

State Class 2A champion Douglass, of Prince George's County, took over the top spot in the final Maryland High School Football Media State Poll with No. 2 Northwest, No. 3 McDonogh, No. 4 Gilman and No. 5 Franklin rounding out the top teams.

By Katherine Dunn

Dec 9, 2014

Ben Carson video could foreshadow presidential bid

The Washington Post editor had a hand in the coverage of a Maryland political scandal, aside from Watergate

The death of the famous Washington Post editor is a loss to journalism

When it comes to getting information on politics and government, Fox News has a far greater hold on conservatives than any single media outlet has on liberals.

By David Zurawik

Oct 21, 2014

Stephen Hunter's 18th novel teams his favorite character, Bob Lee Swagger, with a newspaper reporter.

A wrongful-conviction lawsuit has been revived against Baltimore police featured in David Simon's "Homicide," who are accused of manufacturing and inducing perjured testimony at exoneree James Owens' 1988 trial over the murder of Colleen Williar, for which he served decades in prison. Ars Technica exposes the criminal hacker history of Home Depot¿s chief IT guy, Ricky Joe Mitchell, convicted of sabotaging the network of his former employer, EnerVest Operating. RuPaul is leading a drag queen revolt against Facebook's policy requiring the real, legal name of those who keep accounts on its site.

I only have 2 million other better things to write about. But after 24 hours of waiting for someone else to unload on Sean Hannity, the Fox News host who defines political stooge, I have to say something.

I thought I was over it. I promised myself I was not going to get outraged this election cycle when Fox News allowed its contributors to use their airtime on the highest rated cable news channel to test the waters of a potential candidacy and essentially raise PAC money on-air.

Tribune is just the latest multimedia news company to split up its broadcasting and publishing assets, joining Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and E.W. Scripps, which completed such a spinoff just last week. Such separation is gaining momentum as traditional media seek to adapt to the fast-evolving digital landscape.

Michael Kammarman, a product of the Laurel Boys and Girls Club soccer program, is getting a lot of stamps in his passport. The latest stop has been soccer-crazy Brazil, where the former Delaware soccer player is the press officer for the U.S. men's soccer team that is taking part in the 2014 World Cup.

We're in our second term of a style over substance presidency and can't handle another in Hillary.