Alexandria, VA – Today, the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a national nonprofit journalism organization, announced its inaugural Advisory Council. The Franklin Center Advisory Council consists of Tucker Carlson, Co-Founder and editor-in-chief of the Daily Caller; Jack Fowler, publisher of National Review; Mark Tapscott, editorial page editor of the Washington Examiner; Ashley Landess, [...]

By: Mark Flatten

In the aftermath of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Human Rights Watch produced a series of articles decrying China’s iron-fisted restrictions on the news media. Despite a provision in the Chinese constitution guaranteeing a free press, those lofty notions are mere words on paper in a society ruled by Communist despots, those reports [...]

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP)
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. has retained the right to publish content from The Associated Press under a new licensing deal that thaws the sometimes-frosty relationship between the two companies.
The multiyear agreement announced Monday has two key components: an undisclosed payment for the rights to AP’s content, and a data-sharing arrangement [...]

Local and state governments around the nation are struggling to move out of the red. Some are cutting spending while others are laying off government employees. But one city has decided to levy a new tax on a group of individuals who voice their lives, problems, and concerns via the internet. Yes, bloggers in Philadelphia [...]

By Jonathan Strong – The Daily Caller

Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement.
“It’s standard operating procedure” to [...]