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There's a little history here | The FiOS ads say, 'This is big!' Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't COMMENTARY Bruce Kushnick scoffs at the new FiOS ads in New York and wants to know where all the billions earmarked for broadband have gone. 
One message for investors, another for the public | The oil industry low-balls profits and the press goes along COMMENTARY One more time: in a free market system, profits are return on dollars invested, not return on sales or revenue. Is that too complicated, Mr. Will?
| Why gas is almost $4 a gallon and some ideas on what to do about it COMMENTARY Separating the real from wishful thinking on energy independence, short- and long-term oil price solutions, subsidies, speculation and government regulation.
From Nieman Reports | Calling for a secrecy beat COMMENTARY Ted Gup writes that reporters should be writing about the emerging 'secretocracy' that threatens to profoundly alter our entire system of governance, neutering oversight efforts and marginalizing citizens. He advocates writing not just about the secrets we can uncover, but also about the information that has been denied us.
| Nu lede: The disappearing act reappears COMMENTARY The Pentagon has ceased briefing retired military leaders who went on TV to promote the government’s handling of the Iraq war. The action came five days after the New York Times exposed the program.
From Nieman Reports | Reporting is only part of the investigative story COMMENTARY| April 112, 2008 The legendary investigative team of Barlett & Steele write about the importance of translating the details of reporting into ideas and language and visual images and constructions that will attract and sustain the interest of readers and viewers.
From Nieman Reports | Championing access to government information COMMENTARY Steven Aftergood writes that the direct access to newsworthy documents creates an expectation and a demand for greater availability. Yet most newspapers do not offer such 'tools for citizenship' to the same extent that their business pages offer tools for investing. Why is it that in most papers — and even on their Web sites — it is easier to find the daily batting averages of one's baseball team than the daily voting records of one's congressional delegation?
| The press and the presidency: Silencing the watchdog COMMENTARY Retired Washington Post diplomatic reporter Murrey Marder writes that George W. Bush is unparalleled among presidents for the way he has set out to discredit the press as a watchdog of government.
White House e-mail scandal | Are political journalists falling prey to technological misdirection? COMMENTARY An information technology expert suggests five important points journalists are overlooking when it comes to the missing White House e-mails.
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