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It's a story that's been dominating media coverage -- top to bottom -- from mainstream media to social media and everything in between.Baltimore Ravens…
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There's no doubt in anybody's mind that the beheadings of American journalists by ISIS extremists is news.But the distribution of videos of those…
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Why did Amazon just pay a billion dollars cash for a website most people have never heard of -- twitch.tv?And, for that matter, what they heck is…
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Rioting in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson -- after an unarmed teenager was shot to death by police -- has brought media attention the likes of which…
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It's just a journalism class. But the syllabus for this once a week class at Boston University went viral.No doubt that is, in part, because it is being…
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There's a new way to listen to national and local NPR programming.It a mobile app that tailors what you hear to your listening interests.It's called NPR…
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Is seven million views on the internet more punishment than being charged with stealing?That's the thinking of a man who caught two women stealing his…
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The 7-1 victory by Germany over Brazil in the World Cup generated the most activity around a single sports game on Twitter ever.Over 35-and-a-half million…
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Are internet comments sections the new town square, or cesspools of racism, sexism and worse?Whenever you scroll down through a comments section, at some…
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When you want to know something about somebody or something and do an internet search, where do you most often end up?Is it Wikipedia?The online,…
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The White House recently released a Task Force report on sexual assault on college campuses, saying one-in-five women on college campuses are sexually…
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New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd was in the state of Colorado a while back, a state that has legalized the recreational use of marijuana.She decided…