Outside the Beltway

Eleanor Clift reflects on her “final issue after 50 years at Newsweek.”

With key conservatives pushing for sanity, the grown-ups have a chance to take back the GOP.

Who should qualify as a “journalist” for purposes of a “Shield Law?”

The pioneering journalist David Frost has died, aged 74 years.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, but is still likely to spend most of his life in prison.

Conservatives are doing what the criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

Apparently, there was a culture clash at the Grey Lady.

Once again, a Federal Court rules that the First Amendment rules does not protect a reporter from being compelled to reveal sources or the results of an investigation.

The prominent media critic will no longer bother criticizing CNN for not living up to the standards of the profession.

Does David Gregory consider Glenn Greenwald to be a reporter deserving of protection, or “just a blogger” who may be a potential criminal?

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

Apparently, some people don’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.

Should bloggers be treated the same as “journalists” for the purpose of the protections granted by media shield laws?

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

Inside the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration investigation into the IRS scandal.

Senior DOJ officials from the previous three administrations back the Obama DOJ’s controversial subpoenaing of AP conversations.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

A generation of kids with massive student loans and no prospects is bad news for the status quo.

POLITICO is joining the stampede toward metered paywalls. In a twist, it will remain free in regions where it’s most popular.

The reality of gun violence in the United States is far different from the story the media is telling us.

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.

Yesterday was not a good day for the Cable “News” Network.

A Fox News reporter may go to jail for refusing to reveal a source. Should journalists have an absolute testimonial privilege?

Matt Yglesias has a smart push-back against the lamentations of the decline of journalism.

There’s no money in wri

So, whoever approves cover art at Bloomberg BusinessWeek thought this was a good idea.

The Hagel confirmation, like Obama’s election, was big news to some avid news consumers.

How he went from Juicebox Mafia member to the most important young journalist in DC.

The world’s most prolific blogger is leaving corporate media and opening the tip jar.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?

Did NBC’s David Gregory violate D.C. law on Sunday?

Alex Pareene’s annual hack list omits an obvious candidate: Alex Pareene.

There aren’t enough readers who want political reporting that’s “more substantive than POLITICO and much more sophisticated than C.Q.” and willing to pay for it.

As is often the case with sex scandals, pretty much everything ever written about General David Petraeus takes on an ironic double meaning in hindsight.

Is the triumph of political forecasting good for our democracy?