The U.S. military has banned journalists embedded with troops in eastern Afghanistan from photographing military personnel killed in combat.

Daryl Lang writes on the Photo District News web site — pdnonline.com:

“Media will not be allowed to photograph or record video of U.S.…

Which country is most routinely miscovered in the U.S. press? Michael Massing asks in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review.

One could argue that most countries are miscovered through undercoverage. At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com, for example, our emphasis…

The Olympic Games have long been criticized for being too political. And now comes President Barack Obama’s decision to campaign on behalf of Chicago bid to host the 2016 Games.

Alex Koppelman writes on Salon.com:

President Obama is going to Denmark this week to…

The New York Times kept secret the war-zone kidnapping of one of its reporters, who today was rescued in a raid resulting in the death of a British commando, the reporter’s Afghan interpreter and perhaps some Afghan civilians.

Stephen Farrell was kidnapped…

Opposition to the war in Afghanistan has reached a new high, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released today.

It shows 57 percent oppose the war, up 3 percentage points from the month before. 42 percent are in favor of the…

Washington Post columnist George Will is calling for the United States to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

In a column on the Washington Post’s web site — Time to Get Out of Afghanistan – written for Tuesday editions, Will argues:

U.S. forces…

Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Belleville, gets Foreign Policy magazine’s “award” for planning the “cushiest” summer junket abroad.

An article titled “FP’s exclusive guide to Congress’s summer junkets” says:

Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL) is scheduled to lead a CODEL (short for congressional delegation) to Germany,…

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour — the network’s chief international correspondent — told Lesley Stahl in an interview “if I’m kidnapped I want you, personally, to lead the charge and make sure people know about it.”

Amanpour/CNN photo

The comment came as Amanpour and Stahl discussed the…

The recent spate of deadly shootings that appear to have political or ethnic underpinnings has raised questions of how the Post-Dispatch and other media have reported on it.

Some readers have inquired why the May 31 shooting of Dr. George Tiller…

Most families of slain U.S. soldiers have allowed  the press to witness the return of flag-draped coffins since the Pentagon gave them that option earlier this year, the Associated Press reports.

The ban on media coverage was imposed in 1991 by…