The Washington Post and The Guardian U.S. won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of Edward J. Snowden’s leaked documents. The Boston Globe won the breaking news prize.
When the Sunil Tripathi rumor went viral after the Boston Marathon bombing, it laid bare the dysfunctional codependence between new and old media.
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Putting a self-taken picture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover was a clinical act of journalism, but the magazine misgauged how it would be perceived.
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A Massachusetts State Police sergeant released images from the capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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The cover image has drawn criticism that it glamorizes the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Two men say photographs and an article that made them look as if they were suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings inflicted emotional distress.
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Paul Olden, the team’s public-address announcer since 2009, says he has “free rein pretty much to change stuff the way I would say it.”
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The author, Masha Gessen, is a Russian-American journalist who previously wrote a biography of Vladimir Putin.
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Despite critical reviews of its reporting after the Boston bombing, CNN attracted one of its biggest audiences in a decade to its reporting on Friday.
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When big news breaks, a common impulse is to turn to CNN, but the network suffers from self-inflicted damage.
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A missing Brown University philosophy student was mistakenly thought to be one of the men sought in the Boston Marathon bombings.
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The authorities knew that broadly distributing the images would accelerate the digital dragnet, but they did not realize the level of chaos it would create as they sought to capture the Boston Marathon bombers.
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Reporters found themselves in a complex relationship with the authorities, being thanked and chastised at the same time.
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Pictures of the aftermath of the bombings at the Boston Marathon started a debate among news organizations about when images are too horrifying to display.
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The agency said such unverified reporting, from which many news outlets later retreated, could have “unintended consequences” for its investigation.
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An NBC special report drew the most viewers, but all cable news channels reported a spike in audiences.
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