howard kurtz

Howard Kurtz, arguably the most influential media reporter in the country, is leaving The Washington Post for Tina Brown's Daily Beast website in the latest high-profile defection from old media titan to new media upstart. Kurtz will cover the intersection of politics and media for the site.

The Washington Post (WPO) has long been one of a handful of what can rightfully claim to be great national newspapers. No longer. As of this week, the Post is adopting a humbler but perhaps savvier goal: to be a great regional newspaper -- albeit one with a national readership. Years in the...

As symbols go, you can't do much better than Glenn Beck welcoming Don Imus into the fold. Beck was a guest on Monday's edition of Imus in the Morning, the first simulcast on News Corp. (NWS)'s Fox Business Network under a new multiyear deal. The two talked a lot about their battles with alcoholism,...

The conventional wisdom on whether and how newspapers ought to charge for their online content is changing so rapidly, some people are having trouble keeping up. One of those people is Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, who Monday repeated one of the favored fallacies of the...