Wins 2 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for Book and Film Coverage

Actress Angela Lansbury is interviewed Sunday as members of the press gather around at the 9th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Truthdig contributors John Patterson and Tim Riley took top prizes at Sunday evening's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, the ninth annual event sponsored by the Los Angeles Press Club.

In Macedonia’s fake news hub, teen shows AP how it’s done

On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth. VELES, Macedonia - On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth.

‘You have to write what people want to see’: How one Macedonian teenager creates fake news

On the second floor of a noisy sports center in the Macedonian town of Veles, a teenage purveyor of fake news cracked open his laptop and laid out his case for why lying is more lucrative than the truth. "The fake news is the good news," the 18-year-old said, pointing to a graph showing his audience figures, which reached into the hundreds of thousands, a bling watch clasped firmly around his wrist.

Google’s hack attack warning to US journalists hints at increasing threat to press freedom

In the message, Google began with a straightforward, disconcerting warning: "Government-backed attackers may be trying to steal your password." This message has been delivered into the inbox of prominent reporters and high-profile individuals in the United States including Politico's Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic's Jon Lovett and former US diplomat Michael McFaul.

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos gets schooled on live TV

Breitbart News writer Milo Yiannopoulos was interviewed by Channel 4 News in the UK about his past statements that women offended online should just "log off" the internet and his assertion that, actually, Islam is the real culprit of rape culture. This is the moment Milo Yiannopoulos is challenged on @BreitbartNews headlines and so-called "post-truth politics."

Editor: Breitbart plans to be ‘best place for news on Trump’

That scares its critics, which consider Breitbart News the home of cheerleaders rather than journalists - and often offensive ones at that. Despite the opponents, Breitbart is unquestionably on a high following the surprise election of Trump, whose candidacy the web site unceasingly backed both before and after its leader, Stephen K. Bannon, was brought in to run the general election campaign.

White House press briefings could be totally bonkers under Donald Trump

Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos, pictured at a June news conference down the street from the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, would be a bold choice for White House press secretary. Let's just start by saying this exercise assumes President-elect Donald Trump will actually have a White House press secretary who delivers regular briefings.

The Test of Time

The single most important reform we need - even more important than political and economic reform - is reform of the media. I've campaigned for direct democracy - real democracy - for over thirty years, so I believe absolutely in the right of every citizen to make the political decisions of their government - not just elect so-called representatives.

Winners and losers of the 2016 presidential election

It has been the ugliest election since 1824 , with plenty of winners and losers on both sides. But why wait until the final votes are counted? Here are the 10 winners and 10 losers of this presidential slog: Michelle Obama - The First Lady has always been eloquent , but her popularity and credibility soared with her sane, sober, non-self-righteous take-downs of Trump, concluding , "We need an adult in the White House."

Editorial: Rolling Stone case shows our libel laws are working

Jurors in Virginia has found Rolling Stone magazine defamed a University of Virginia administrator in a now-debunked story about an alleged rape on campus. What the verdict shows is that the U.S.'s system of libel laws are appropriately balanced with the freedom of the press - and that calls from both presidential candidates to weaken at the First Amendment are baseless and even dangerous.

Barack Obama and the search for identity

In the penultimate episode of the Presidential podcast , we examine Barack Obama's search for identity and how that quest has paralleled America's own complex reckoning with race. "Trying to figure out his identity was really the story of his young life," says Washington Post journalist David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama: The Story .

At DAPL, Confiscating Cameras as Evidence of Journalism

While elite media wait for the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline to go away so they can return to presenting their own chin-stroking as what it means to take climate change seriously , independent media continue to fill the void with actual coverage. One place you can go to find reporting is The Intercept , where journalist Jihan Hafiz filed a video report from North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies continue their stand against the sacred site-trampling, water supply-threatening project.