Player in Leaks Case, Out From Behind Camera

The documentarian Laura Poitras says her role in the leaking of American surveillance programs was “not something I was seeking out.”

    

Media Decoder: N.S.A. Leaker Is a New Kind for an Internet Age

Edward J. Snowden has stepped into public view as the source of disclosures about the nation’s surveillance programs.

    

Media Decoder: Politico Expands Coverage Areas and Adds an Editor of Note

An editor who ruffled some feathers at The Washington Post will head the new territories.

    

Haynes Johnson, Journalist and Author, Dies at 81

Mr. Johnson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, television commentator and author who spent most of his career at The Washington Post and won wide acclaim for his coverage of the capital.

    

Papers Worldwide Embrace Web Subscriptions

Online advertising, once seen as the great hope for the future, has begun leveling off, which is accelerating the push for new Internet business models.

Murrey Marder, Reporter Who Took On Joe McCarthy, Dies at 93

Mr. Marder may not have gotten a lot of the glory for helping bring down a Red-baiting Senator Joe McCarthy, but he deserves much of the credit, colleagues said.

Media Decoder Blog: Washington Post Says Pay Model Will Start This Summer

The Post is joining hundreds of other newspapers in asking its readers to pay a fee for access to its Web site

Media Decoder Blog: Two reporters, one episode, and a deck of Beltway cards

There are two parables embedded in Episode 3 of “House of Cards,” explain Ashley Parker and David Car in their recap.