Past Articles by David Folkenflik
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Fox News Reporter James Rosen Caught Up In Federal Probe There is word of another controversial leak investigation by the Department of Justice. The target is Fox News reporter James Rosen, who was monitored by the department after breaking a story about North Korea's nuclear weapons program in 2009. |
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Fox News Reporter James Rosen Caught Up In Federal Probe There is word of another controversial leak investigation by the Department of Justice. The target is Fox News reporter James Rosen, who was monitored by the department after breaking a story about North Korea's nuclear weapons program in 2009. |
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Fox News Reporter James Rosen Caught Up In Federal Probe There is word of another controversial leak investigation by the Department of Justice. The target is Fox News reporter James Rosen, who was monitored by the department after breaking a story about North Korea's nuclear weapons program in 2009. |
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Bloomberg News Apologizes For Tracking Subscribers Bloomberg News' Editor in Chief Matthew Winkler has apologized for the use by reporters of proprietary data about subscribers to the company's business terminals. The practice was entrenched in a newsroom that was carved out of the lucrative terminals leasing division. |
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Koch Brothers' Newspaper Takeover Could Spark 'Culture Clash' David and Charles Koch, billionaires known these days for their politics, are interested in acquiring a collection of daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun. If they bought those papers, what would they do with them? |
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Koch Brothers' Newspaper Takeover Could Spark 'Culture Clash' David and Charles Koch, billionaires known these days for their politics, are interested in acquiring a collection of daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun. If they bought those papers, what would they do with them? |
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Koch Brothers' Newspaper Takeover Could Spark 'Culture Clash' David and Charles Koch, billionaires known these days for their politics, are interested in acquiring a collection of daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun. If they bought those papers, what would they do with them? |
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China Seeks Soft Power Influence in U.S. Through CCTV China Central Television's American offshoot has set up shop just two blocks from the White House. Some say the government-owned English channel is helping redefine acceptable media coverage in China, while others see it as a soft Chinese power play. |
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China Seeks Soft Power Influence in U.S. Through CCTV China Central Television's American offshoot has set up shop just two blocks from the White House. Some say the government-owned English channel is helping redefine acceptable media coverage in China, while others see it as a soft Chinese power play. |
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Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away In the age of digital media, many newspapers have been forced to gut their staffs, leading some media analysts to sound the death knell for enterprise reporting and long-form storytelling. Not so fast, say the craft's most passionate advocates. |
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NBC Has More Problems Than Just 'Tonight Show' Hosts NBC announced Wednesday that Jimmy Fallon will take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno next spring. But NBC has a raft of other problems including a rocky ride in prime time. Plus, it fell from first place last fall to fifth in February — behind not just the other broadcast networks but the Spanish language Univision. |
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With Headline Bus Tour, 'New York Post' Takes Manhattan The New York Post, with its brazen and sometimes hilarious, sometimes cruel and punishing headlines, is now promoting itself with a bus tour of Manhattan. It drives by spots where reporters covered the scandals, murders and sensations that make New York City such a competitive tabloid town. |
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After Investigation, No Evidence 'Wall Street Journal' Bribed Chinese Officials The Wall Street Journal's China bureau was the subject of a Department of Justice inquiry into allegations that the bureau had been bribing Chinese officials in exchange for information. Investigation by the parent company turned up no evidence to uphold the claim. |
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News Corp. Education Tablet: For The Love Of Learning? The Amplify tablet is specially designed for K-12 classroom interaction. While the company touts the ability to improve teaching and learning, critics have questioned News Corp.'s motives. |
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News Corp. Education Tablet: For The Love Of Learning? The Amplify tablet is specially designed for K-12 classroom interaction. While the company touts the ability to improve teaching and learning, critics have questioned News Corp.'s motives. |
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News Corp. Education Tablet: For The Love Of Learning? The Amplify tablet is specially designed for K-12 classroom interaction. While the company touts the ability to improve teaching and learning, critics have questioned News Corp.'s motives. |
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Media Circus: Ah, The President's Mean The White House-Woodward spat is part of a longer story about the professional life of one of America's most famous journalists. |
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Media Circus: Ah, The President's Mean The White House-Woodward spat is part of a longer story about the professional life of one of America's most famous journalists. |
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CNBC Adopts Tougher Tactic In Booking Wars CNBC is far and away the ratings leader in the financial cable news business — and its executives, producers and reporters are working hard to keep it that way. They're telling some guests they can't appear on rival channels amid breaking news. |
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CNBC Adopts Tougher Tactic In Booking Wars CNBC is far and away the ratings leader in the financial cable news business — and its executives, producers and reporters are working hard to keep it that way. They're telling some guests they can't appear on rival channels amid breaking news. |
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New York Times Plans To Sell 'Boston Globe' The New York Times Co. announced Wednesday that it plans to sell The Boston Globe and its related properties. |
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'New York Times' The Target Of Chinese Cyber Attack The New York Times says hackers in China infiltrated the newspaper's computer systems. The Chinese government closely watches and censors Chinese media reports about policy and officials but it is less able to do so with the foreign press. The attack on the Times may signal a tactic that can be used against foreign news organizations. |
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The Manti Te'o Story: Why The News Media Let Its Guard Down The media lionized the football star amid stories of his perseverance after the death of his girlfriend. Now the girlfriend's existence has been called into question, casting an unflattering light on the practices of the media. |
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'Carefully Choreographed Dance': Armstrong's Complicated Media Past At his peak, Lance Armstrong alternately charmed, manipulated and strong-armed the media. He transcended the world of cycling, and much of the coverage from nonsports media was adulatory. The now-disgraced cycling champion is turning to a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey for redemption. |
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Oprah Interview Adds To Armstrong's Complicated Media History Lance Armstrong — who has walked away from his seven Tour de France titles and his cancer charity because of a doping scandal — has apparently admitted his guilt in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. NPR's David Folkenflik reports on the media strategy behind the interview. |
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Tribune Co. Moves Toward Entertainment, Cable TV The Chicago-based Tribune Co., the corporate owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and 23 local TV stations, emerged Monday from bankruptcy after a messy four year process. The Tribune's future is expected to look very different from its newsy past. |
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Coverage Rapid, And Often Wrong, In Tragedy's Early Hours Much of what Americans learned from the news media Friday about the events in Newtown was wrong. Journalists know early accounts of crisis events are often misleading and incomplete, but often are compelled to pursue them without waiting for authoritative confirmation. |
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Coverage Rapid, And Often Wrong, In Tragedy's Early Hours Much of what Americans learned from the news media Friday about the events in Newtown was wrong. Journalists know early accounts of crisis events are often misleading and incomplete, but often are compelled to pursue them without waiting for authoritative confirmation. |
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Rupert Murdoch Reveals Plan To Split Conglomerate Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is still reeling from the phone-hacking scandal that forced the closure of one of the company's U.K. tabloids and has mired it in government and police investigations. One side will include the newspapers and publishing house while the other will contain its profitable television properties and movie studios. |
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Rupert Murdoch Reveals Plan To Split Conglomerate Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is still reeling from the phone-hacking scandal that forced the closure of one of the company's U.K. tabloids and has mired it in government and police investigations. One side will include the newspapers and publishing house while the other will contain its profitable television properties and movie studios. |
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Mark Thompson Takes Over At New York Times Co. This week marks the start of Mark Thompson's tenure as the new chief executive officer at the New York Times Co. It is facing financial head-winds, and is hoping Thompson can recapture some of the success he enjoyed in leading the BBC. But there's concern within the Times that its new leader has been tainted by scandals at his old employer. |
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Baron Named Executive Editor At 'Washington Post' Martin Baron of the Boston Globe has been named the new executive editor of The Washington Post. He replaces Marcus Brauchli who came to the Post in 2008 from The Wall Street Journal. |
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Conservative Media Caught in the Blame Game Some Republicans say Romney's loss is partly the fault of conservative media that kept overstating the candidate's real strength. |
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Conservative Media Caught in the Blame Game Some Republicans say Romney's loss is partly the fault of conservative media that kept overstating the candidate's real strength. |
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Media Circus: Fox Struggles With Obama's Win Analysts and reporters focused on the dip in optimism from the election four years ago. But at virtually no point did they appear to entertain the idea that President Obama may have won voters' trust on a personal level, identified policies that voters found appealing, or notched any worthwhile accomplishments. |
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Newspaper Endorsements Still Key In Swing States Newspaper editorial endorsements of candidates are watched especially closely in swing states. Last week the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio endorsed Mitt Romney. But what does it achieve? And why do campaigns want them in an era when the hard copy paper is widely derided and often ignored? |
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Newspaper Endorsements: Prized, But Often Ignored Voters say they put little to no stock in the editorials, even when they fervently agree with those endorsements. That's reflective of newspapers' status in many markets. But one Republican expert says a newspaper endorsement can be effective at persuading undecided voters. |
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Media Circus: Tone Trumps Content In Final Debate The final presidential debate left many viewers scratching their heads. It's not that the candidates invoked unimportant issues. It's not that the two held so elevated a conversation mere mortals could not understand. It's that they were debating almost entirely in tone rather than content. |
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After 80 Years In Print, Newsweek Goes All Digital Newsweek editor Tina Brown announced Thursday that the magazine will abandon print in 2013. Brown's weekly printed magazine could not compensate for plummeting circulation and advertising amid a 24-7, digitally-driven news cycle, and will reformulate for a paying audience on tablets and online. |
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After 80 Years In Print, 'Newsweek' To Go All Digital The magazine's editor, Tina Brown, announced that Newsweek will abandon print in 2013. Brown's weekly printed magazine could not compensate for plummeting circulation and advertising amid a 24-7, digitally driven news cycle and will reformulate for a paying audience on tablets and online. |
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Media Circus: Candidates Brawl, Pundits Reverse Course Yet Again Pundits fretted that the town hall format for Tuesday's presidential exchange would yield tepid results: undecided voters posing questions with little more than a passing touch from the moderator. The media's storyline quickly shifted, however, from the pressure facing the president after the previous debate to his more energetic performance. |
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Media Circus: Who Won? The Moderator With guns blazing, Martha Raddatz took over the reins of Thursday's vice presidential debate and never let go. While Vice President Biden and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan engaged in an intense face-off, Raddatz kept the debate moving, ultimately becoming the one uncontested winner of the evening. |
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Advice For Moderators: Keep Order, Out Of Spotlight Jim Lehrer was slammed for losing control of last week's presidential debate, and Martha Raddatz is confronting criticism in the lead-up to Thursday's VP battle. But how much control can a moderator exert over ambitious and strong-willed candidates, especially when the stakes are so high? |
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Lights, Camera, Action (zzzz), Tweet! There was plenty of media spin and punditry in Wednesday's debate, not just in Denver but on Twitter. The candidates appeared to be lacking in real zingers. Instead, it turns out the real conversation was happening through social media. |
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CNN Defends Reporting On Slain Ambassador's Diary A CNN reporter recovered Christopher Stevens' diary from the ruins of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. The network is under fire for using the diary in its reporting - without the permission of the ambassador's family. But CNN says it carefully balanced empathy for Stevens' family with the public's right to know. |
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Smaller Audience, Bigger Payoff For Glenn Beck At his new venture, The Blaze, Beck has far fewer audience members soaking in his commentary than he did at Fox News. But the numbers don't tell the whole story. Fox helped amplify Beck's voice, whereas now, Beck projects his message on his own terms. |
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The Next Frontier In TV: English News For Latinos ABC News and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision have joined forces to create a TV news channel aimed at Hispanics who prefer English. But with a target audience that currently turns to the same news sources as everyone else, the venture isn't without risk. |
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Eyeing Latinos, NBC News Snuggles Up To Telemundo NBC News' top-rated Nightly News with Brian Williams draws a modest number of Hispanics, compared with the population at large. Network executives see that as a growth opportunity, and they're turning to their Spanish-language sister network, Telemundo, for help in realizing it. |
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How Fox Pioneered A Formula For Latino News As more and more news companies begin courting Hispanics, one site has been ahead of the curve: Fox News Latino has found early success by appealing to English-speaking Hispanics with a recipe that doesn't always coincide with Fox News' highly rated opinion shows. |
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CNN's President Steps Down Amid Poor Ratings Jim Walton, head of CNN Worldwide, has announced he will step down at the end of the year. |
