If you hear the word “Gulf” during a news broadcast by WBHM radio in Birmingham, or Alabama Public Radio, or WVUA 23 TV in Tuscaloosa, it refers to the Gulf of Mexico, not the Gulf of Tonkin. That hel...

Many people consider jury duty a burden, but one juror in the Lindsay Clancy child murder trial experienced the bonus of a local TV station splaying his personal-life misdeeds all over the nation. For...

If you wrote a bad Yelp review of your employer’s product, you’d probably get fired. But newsrooms are weird. Some of them tolerate dissent like that. AL.com, for one. John Archibald, the two-time Pu...

Mark Mayfield has read and respected The New York Times his entire adult life. Taught its journalistic standards in all of his media ethics courses at the University of Alabama. Yet in a federal court...

The best medicine is not a drug.

The student who stayed after class was in tears. Because of a test grade that wasn’t an A. On a test that counted as 3% of her overall grade. Many college students feel tremendous pressure to maintai...

The seemingly legitimate news article, which several people sent to me and was shared on social media by many more, carried a stunning headline: “The Ghost Paper That Ate Alabama: How a Media Startup ...

The first clue to my cluelessness about the current popularity of professional international soccer among Americans was the grandkid wearing a Lionel Messi shirt. He’s 9. That popularity is abundantl...

You’ve read here previously about the growing use of artificial intelligence to produce print/online news stories, but we need to also talk about its use in producing sports stories because, who...

“College journalism programs are failing to prepare students for the workforce.” “Journalism programs are decades behind.” “If you’re a student considering journalism, I’d skip that degree.” W...

Many press haters who like to point to errors and bias have added an even more cutting criticism in recent years: irrelevancy. It’s a fair question, as readership, viewership and staff size at newspa...

Politically right-wing media figures and organizations don’t always see everything the same way, as we’re witnessing now in their public bickering about the wisdom of the Iran war. But a constant, uni...

The future of journalism is being decided in college newsrooms as students and educators try to fight back

By force of habit that started with the first Gulf War in 1991, many longtime TV viewers turn to CNN whenever the U.S. engages in war. It is happening again now with coverage of war in Iran. CNN has ...

Because the ivory tower of academia repels reality, I’m going to intrepidly and unapologetically ask: “Why the heck can’t a billionaire owner operate a newspaper at a loss forever?” Jeff Bezos, who...

President Donald Trump has occasionally referred to news reports that he didn’t like as “illegal.” That’s a dream. But he’s trying to make that dream come true. In yet another attempt to frighten...