Does ESPN Have Room for Free Speech and ‘Monday Night Football’?

Allen Barra / Truthdig Oct 16, 2014 Popular sports commentator Bill Simmons was suspended by ESPN for violating editorial standards -- or was it because he criticized the NFL, which happens to have a $15 billion contract with the network?Popular sports commentator Bill Simmons was suspended by ESPN for violating editorial standards—or was it because he criticized the NFL, which happens to have a $15 billion contract with the network? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Golden Age of Journalism?

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Jan 23, 2014 Only in the years that shrank the screen to your desk, then your hand, now your pocket -- and one day soon on your eyeglasses -- did it became apparent that throughout the print era the newspaper had been misnamed. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Life and Times of Glenn Greenwald

Staff / Truthdig Oct 25, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: An intimate portrait of new journalism's banner carrier, how the shutdown affected people of color, lying liars and the economics of mendacity, the Green Party responds to the 60 percent of Americans calling for a third party and The Mantle's Shaun Randol on Africa and super-independent publishing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Apple Rigged Book Prices, Judge Rules

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jul 11, 2013 When Apple decided to get into the e-book business, it joined a conspiracy with major publishers to raise book prices as much as 50 percent, a judge determined Wednesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 17, 2013 The Other 98%, a group loosely associated with Occupy Wall Street, is trying to raise enough cash to outbid Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers in their efforts to buy the Tribune Company, owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, among other newspapers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Reports of Publishing’s Death Are Exaggerated

Susan Zakin / Truthdig Dec 8, 2012 Some people think the book business in on its last legs. But others think it isn't a business at all. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )

Cosmopolitan Editor Dies at 90

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 14, 2012 Helen Gurley Brown, the woman who remade Cosmopolitan magazine in the early 1960s to peddle advice on sex and landing the perfect man to female readers, died at age 90 in Manhattan on Monday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dugald Stermer Wanted to Change the World

Peter Richardson / Truthdig Dec 5, 2011 Dugald Stermer, illustrator and visionary art director of Ramparts magazine, the legendary San Francisco muckraker, died last Friday after a long illness He was 74The visionary art director of Ramparts magazine died last Friday after a long illness. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Behold the Triumph of the E-Book

Staff / Truthdig May 23, 2011 Although there are those purists out there who still insist on reading actual books -- as in the kind that come from trees -- Amazon's grand pooh-bah Jeff Bezos announced last week that sales of e-books have now surpassed that of their analog counterparts. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Falling in Love With the Kindle

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Sep 7, 2010 I hated Amazon's first Kindle as much as my dad, an avid reader, writer and collector of books, loved it. For him, it was delivery on a very old promise. For me, its monochrome screen, beige plastic body and single-mindedness represented a technological regression. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Competing Authors Pull a Karl Rove on … Karl Rove

Staff / Truthdig Mar 17, 2010 It's not too often that this combination of words issues from our fingers, but this ad is priceless The enterprising authors of "Rework," the book currently slotted in Amazon's No 2 position under Karl Rove's enormous, picture-free and heavy tome "Courage and Consequence," just might have pulled (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Larry’s List: Blizzard-Free Edition

Staff / Truthdig Dec 22, 2009 Curl up with some eggnog and click on to find out why Americans can't make things (hint: business school), why Michelangelo wasn't such a loner, after all, and more. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )