Does Bari Weiss Prove Woke Media Is Collapsing?
Plus: the legality of Trump’s National Guard deployments, Democrat A.G. nominee’s leaked texts about shooting GOP rival, and what Argentina’s crisis means for libertarians.
New Media
The 2024 Campaign Was an Embarrassment for Elite Media
Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.
Abolish the FCC's Equal Time Rule Before the Next Election
The decades-old regulation imposes burdens that no other media outlets are subject to.
Ben Smith's One Neat Trick for Going Viral
The Semafor editor and former BuzzFeed News editor in chief on the online media explosion of the 2000s.
Tucker Carlson's Twitter Venture Tests Mainstream Media's Eroding Grip
The controversial host launches his effort at a promising moment for dissident voices.
What Does Tucker Carlson's Sudden Schism With Fox News Mean?
Plus: Should committed libertarians be opposed to pro-natalist policies?
The Death of BuzzFeed News Was a Facebook Murder-Suicide
Online media companies got exactly what they said they wanted.
Your Donations Make Reason an Island of Stability in a Turbulent Sea of Media
Ain't it grand to have a resilient libertarian journal of opinion?
People Have Been Panicking About New Media Since Before the Printing Press
Politicians and activists claim social media is turning us into zombies. But new technologies have been greeted with skepticism since the dawn of time.
Everybody's Wrong About the Facebook/Murdoch Standoff in Australia
This tech/media fight down under is not about democracy or monopolies. It’s about ad revenue.
Australia's Confused Tech Regulators Are Cracking Down on Google for Using Links
If the new trustbusters get their way, tech platforms might be forced to pay money to traditional news outlets for the privilege of linking to their content.
The 2010s: When the Media Lost Their Gatekeepers
Media theorist Marshall McLuhan's work best explains how the world changed in the 2010s—and what we can expect in the decade ahead.
How Independent Journalists Are Beating the Mainstream Media
“I don't know who to believe. Why don't I just go there and see for myself?"
Stossel: The Rise of Citizen Journalists
A new wave of journalists, like Tim Pool, use "new media" to tell it like it is.
This Marine Videographer Went Rogue To Show the Brutal Reality of War
Miles Lagoze: "They weren't really watching an 18-year-old Combat Camera kid and where he was going, what he was filming."
Why Parents Shouldn't Flip Out Over Too Much Screen Time: Podcast
Jordan Shapiro's The New Childhood boldly embraces technological innovation and the interconnected world it's creating.
SCOTUS Won't Hear Defamation Case Against Bill Cosby; Clarence Thomas Has Issues with Landmark First Amendment Ruling [UPDATED]
Thomas thinks the Supreme Court may have erred in its 1964 NYT v. Sullivan ruling.
Democratizing Gun Production, Education, and Media: Podcast
J.D. Tuccille, Lisa Snell, and Rob Long discuss the democratization of everything at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
Presidential Politics Pays Off for Cable News, But Networks and Newspapers Continue to Flounder
As print papers continue their decline, cable programs and mobile content are picking up the slack.
Why Mark Zuckerberg Should Have Told Conservatives To Screw Off
The Facebook summit got high marks from attendees but is just one instance of today's childish outrage culture.
Does Facebook Suppress Conservative News Outlets and Topics?
Ex-staffers of the social media behemoth claim stories written by and about conservatives are deliberately kept from "Trending."
Serial Resignations at Breitbart News After the Michelle Fields Manhandling Incident
Fields, Ben Shapiro, and at least four others leave the conservative rabble-rousing site
Watch 'Lifetime Achievement Award' Co-Recipient Louis Rossetto Talk About the Future of Media with Reason TV
Wired co-founder to be feted with Jane Metcalfe at tonight's Webby Awards
Grand Theft Auto is Today's Great Expectations
Why video games are the defining cultural medium of the 21st century.
Loving Hating Breitbart
A powerful post-partisan message from a documentary about an infamous right-winger
Information Liberated: Jeffrey Tucker on How Digital Media Subverts Government Power
Q&A with the executive editor of Laissez Faire Books
