Rebecca Adelman on the photos of drowned 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, questions of ethical spectatorship, and how much of the debate surrounding the images obscures the complexities inherent in any act of looking at casualty photos.
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This new form of serialized nonfictional podcasting is both compelling essential listening, and a challenge to our expectations for journalism.
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With its reliance on speculation, dependence on simulation, and occasional swerves into absurdity, CNN's coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370 indexes the incomprehensibility of this disaster, marked by the failures of so many systems that seemed to promise safety, visibility, and order.
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Wednesday morning left both the electoral map and Republican politicians feeling a little blue, yet there was another group in need of collective introspection: political journalists, commentators and pundits.
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Antenna introduces a new series on the mediation of Middle Eastern politics, edited by Matt Sienkiewicz and articulated through the side-by-side perspectives of bloggers and academics.
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Ira Glass' iconic voice seems to be everywhere, and offers insight into contemporary radio culture and stardom.
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On Radio is a new Antenna column dedicated to contemporary radio programming and other issues surrounding the medium in all its forms. Here, in the series' first entry, Andrew Bottomley offers a critical appreciation of the radio feature Radiolab.
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Thoughts on the retirement of one of America's great journalists, Bill Moyers.
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Ten things worth checking out online from this past week
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Last week Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced his intention not to run for reelection (big) if and when a vote is held. This isn't the forum to discuss the political significance of this move, but I thought I'd throw out some quick observations on the international media side of the story.
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