Lonely Planet

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Apr 12, 2007 News organizations continue to close bureaus around the world at a time when Americans seem to know less than ever about other cultures. It's hard to know why they hate us when we're not entirely sure who they are. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Media Conglomerate Considers Bids

Staff / Truthdig Jan 21, 2007 Tribune Media, the conglomerate that owns the Los Angeles Times along with other major newspapers, TV stations and even the Chicago Cubs, announced it is considering offers for its sale. The economic wisdom of conglomeration has come under fire in recent years, but Tribune's troubles have raised concerns over the future of the newspaper industry in general. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Paper Drops Coulter’s Column

Staff / Truthdig Jul 13, 2006 An editor at the Cedar Rapids Gazette said that conservative readers felt she was misrepresenting their views. May a thousand newspapers follow suit. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iran Shuts Down Newspaper Over Cartoon

Staff / Truthdig May 24, 2006 No, it's not because of an image of Mohammed. Rather, an official paper published a cartoon that mocked Iran's Azeri minority and led to riots. Dig deeper

Katrina and Terror Coverage Win Pulitzers

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2006 Two Gulf Coast newspapers took home the big award for their hurricane reportage; Risen and Lichtblau of the N.Y. Times won for their stories on Bush's eavesdropping; and Dana Priest of the Washington Post earned a Pulitzer for reporting on secret CIA prisons. Full list of winners. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Word at War

Staff / Truthdig Mar 27, 2006 The Washington Post pulls back the curtain on the firm responsible for producing pro-U.S. propaganda in Iraq. (Hint: they call propaganda "influence.") Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Panic in the Newspaper Biz

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Mar 23, 2006 "I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Spineless in South Dakota

Staff / Truthdig Mar 10, 2006 The state's top newspaper refuses to run any editorial on abortion--despite the recent statewide abortion ban that may go to the Supreme Court. "Rather than change anyone's mind, we would create another controversy," says an editor. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lifting Weights With Otis Chandler

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2006 The former publisher of the Los Angeles Times and chairman of Times Mirror, who died on Feb. 27, approached weightlifting with the same kind of passion that animated the other endeavors of his life. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Jews Fight Fire with Satire

Staff / Truthdig Feb 16, 2006 In the wake of an Iranian newspaper's cartoon contest to mock the Holocaust, an Israeli cartoonist is asking Jewish artists to draw anti-Semitic cartoons themselves. We wonder: Is this sort of like African Americans reclaiming the N-word as their own? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Feeding the Cartoon Furor in Afghanistan

Staff / Truthdig Feb 8, 2006 Look past the cartoons, writes Christian Parenti of The Nation. The violence in Afghanistan stems from grievances over four years of occupation by U.S. and NATO troops and ineffectual foreign aid schemes. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Official Iranian Paper to Run Holocaust Cartoons

Staff / Truthdig Feb 7, 2006 The Tehran city council-owned newspaper says it is testing the West's arguments about freedom of expression. | storyMeanwhile, Four Afghans are killed in cartoon-related protests near the U.S. base in Bagram--the first time violence has been directed against America in the controversy. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )