Ann Curry

Jonathan Katz, who had the Haiti beat largely to himself thanks to newsroom cutbacks in international coverage, is no longer alone. Media's biggest names including Diane Sawyer and Anderson Cooper have landed since the earthquake. Katz's house here is in ruins, but he mourns for the rest of the island.

Walter Cronkite didn't get a burial at sea, but it wasn't far off. Time and again over the course of his funeral service, held this afternoon at St. Bartholomew's Church in midtown Manhattan, friends of the network news legend, who died last week at 92, brought up his outsized love of sailing....

With the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett Thursday, it was not difficult to notice that Twitter and Facebook are now the places where people gather when wanting to reminisce or reach out. "Stepped off a 10-hour flight to discover Twitter is essentially a wake for recently departed...

After two days at the 140 Characters Conference in Manhattan, it was clear that NBC's Today Show news anchor Ann Curry won the respect of the crowd with her message of "truth" and "credibility" in journalism. People at the Twitter conference are hungry for more coverage of hard news, such as the...