Radio’s roles in safety and community make it an essential and relevant technology.

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

Although the Court has said that the FCC can regulate fleeting expletives, it has also overturned FCC sanctions, not on First Amendment grounds, but because of vague policies.

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George Chuvalo was an extraordinary athlete. He might not have won the world’s heavyweight championship, but he could absorb pain like few humans on this planet.

An important anniversary in TV history hits this Friday, and then on Sunday a new version of an old show debuts

The Long War on Civilians — Installment 2

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NBC News President Reuven Frank's "Out of Thin Air" tells the story of the F.C.C. rule that turned "60 Minutes" into a goldmine

There is a strange nostalgia in realizing that something once so immediate now belongs increasingly to people who know it only as the past.

9/11 marked the final gasp of the ministerial anchorman.

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An important anniversary in TV history hits this Friday, and then on Sunday a new version of an old show debuts

Steinem was an energetic global representative.

A journalism staple is rendered useless when everybody is everywhere all the time. Nobody cares what Greg Packer tells the newspapers anymore.

The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page embraces an AI submission. Plus: Tracking the expulsion of climate science from Florida textbooks, and putting out prison fires.

The secret to the commentator’s success wasn’t likability — it was trust, earned the hard way.

Right-wing super PACs and left-wing political operatives have created several misleading and politicized social media accounts posing as Maine news sources.

When great Americans died in the broadcast TV era, the networks would run instant specials to celebrate their lives. Dolly Parton got the Jack Benny treatment on CBS last night.

A Harvard and a UC Berkeley faculty member admitted to writing opinion essays with help from AI. Experts say their decision sends a message as students are disciplined for AI use.

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I applaud ABC for sticking up for all U.S. broadcasters with their lawsuit. I think filing it comprises an important public and civic service. But I also think they’ll lose.

Twenty years ago, the Camp aesthetic and mass culture still existed in parallel while being mutually interactive. Today, when the President dances to "Y.M.C.A." something subversive's been co-opted.

The network says attacks on the news division and Jimmy Kimmel are part of a Trump administration "retaliatory campaign" to curb its free speech.

I wrote a book about an event that occurred at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, the first truly global broadcasting event. Here's what the race sounded like when American radio listeners tuned in.

Philosophy & Public Affairs recently---and knowingly---published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic's LLM. The article's thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of phil...

At the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, the Fleshtones celebrated their fiftieth anniversary with a roomful of friends

I wrote a book about an event that occurred at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, the first truly global broadcasting event. Here's what the race sounded like when American radio listeners tuned in.