Journalism

XXL Magazine announces the launch of their first official iPhone app, which features six special functions including a hip-hop news feed,lifestyle trends, Where They At? geo-tracker for finding friends, plus special Twitter functions and the ultimate hip-hop trivia.

Some Japanese are outraged by the alarmist tone and sensationalistic reporting of the earthquake-tsunami tragedy by foreign media. Some media sources have just plain printed factual errors.

New York Times announces a paywall for its digital content.

Bluewater Productions has made a Charlie Sheen comic book titled Infamous: Charlie Sheen that will document his life. It is scheduled for release this summer.

The following is a transcript of a nearly 20 minute conversation on February 22, 2011 between Ian Murphy, a columnist for the website known as The Buffalo Beast, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Murphy was posing as conservative activist David Koch.

An ex-aide to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has revealed e-mail messages from his former employer which he says show Palin closely tracking public opinion, expressing disgust with some broadcasters and explaining why she chose to grant interviews only to Fox news.

CBS reporter Serene Branson has shot up to popularity with Grammy gibber. A Youtube video shows the journalist's struggle with mangles speech, which sparked off speculation on alcohol and stroke.

Potential Republican candidates in 2012 presidential election who gathered in Washington for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) have launched an attack on major policies of the Obama administration as they pitched their respective cases. Here's a snapshot of the possible Republican challengers in 2012:

Humans were able to store at least 295 exabytes of information as of 2007, says a new study that estimated the world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute. In decimal terms, an exabyte is equal to a billion gigabytes.

The iPad-only digital newspaper from News Corp., The Daily, touted to usher in the age of subscription-based revenue model on the web space, has been launched by Rupert Murdoch and Apple Vice President of Internet Services Eddy Cue at a press event at New York's Guggenheim Museum.

Available today on the App Store, The Daily will be free to iPad owners for the first two weeks.

A series of investigative articles in British Medical Journal conclusively prove that Dr Wakefield falsified data and there were irregularities and discrepancies in his study

Bylines paved the way towards journalistic stardom, altering power relations within the news industry, finds a new study.

Huffington launched the news site more as a commentary outlet and an alternative to other conservative news sites by inviting Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to blog, who would fax his blogs. That's not blogging, Arthur used to criticise her. Now with the takeover by AoL, Arianna will become a boss of the entire editorial content of AoL channels.