Media

(AP) Italian writer Roberto Saviano and Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho have been named co-winners of the $75,000 Olof Palme Prize for their efforts to expose criminal networks despite great personal risk. Cacho was charged with libel and received death threats after publishing a book about a child sex abuse ring involving business figures in...
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By Alexandra Alter (WSJ) Enhanced e-books—which have multimedia features such as audio, video, pop-up graphics, 3-D images and animation—are being touted as the next frontier in the digital-books landscape. The explosive growth of e-book sales, coupled with the rapid adoption of iPads, Nook Tablets and Kindle Fires, has prompted publishers to experiment with new...
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(University of Missouri-Columbia) Traditional media, such as newspapers and television news, require readers and viewers to intentionally seek out news by picking up a newspaper or turning on the television. The Internet and new technologies now are changing the way readers consume online news. New research from the University of Missouri shows that Internet...
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In this excerpt from a 1967 story in ‘Cheetah’ magazine, Wilson tries to show the Beach Boys are just as hip as the Beatles Comment4 By JULES SIEGEL November 3, 2011 1:40 PM ET Band leader Brian Wilson of the rock and roll band “The Beach Boys” poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, CA...
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On a smog-dark day early in 1972, a bright neon whirlpool of color and sound and movement circulated through and around the former church and convent of Our Lady of Montserrat, a vacant Baroque ruin in a commercial district near the center of Mexico City. Alejandro Jodorowsky was shooting one of the opening scenes...
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