Kim Pearson

Oprah gave a dope acceptance speech at the 2018 Golden Globes ceremony. The fact that we now have a national …

On Tuesday evening, just after the Democratic National Convention made Hillary Clinton their official nominee…

Early on the crisp, clear morning of January 15, 1981, I boarded a bus in Princeton, New Jersey bound for a d…

The Women in Public Service Project, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's new initiative to shepherd a new ge…

I'm part of the post-Watergate generation of journalism school graduates, and I'm watching my peers struggle …

The Freedom of Information Act turned 40 on July 4 of this year, a moment for both celebration and reflection…

The extended drama surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s unsolicited $5 billion bid to take over family-owned Dow Jone…

When Seung-Hui Cho sent a multimedia diatribe to NBC while on a two-hour break during his killing-spree at Vi…

In my day job, I'm a journalism educator. When a horrific event such as Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech oc…

Over the months that I’ve been writing about legal issues for OJR, the consistent issue that has emerged is t…

At this writing, the jury has yet to hand down a verdict in the trial of former White House aide Lewis “Scoot…

A new report from the Committee to Project Journalists finds that increasingly, online journalists are being …

In late October, Reporters Without Borders released its annual global survey of press freedom, identifying su…

In some ways, Joshua Wolf cuts an unlikely figure as a crusader for the rights of journalists. The 24-year-ol…

Chinese blogger and filmmaker Hao Wu isn’t making public statements about the 140 days he spent imprisoned in…

Her day is done. Dr. Maya Angelou, artist, activist, educator and inspiration, died this morning at the age o…

"When I first get up in the morning I feel fresh and it feels like it would be a good day to me. But after I …

Back in June, we reported on the effort of Diane Abbott, Britain's first black female member of Parliament, t…

James O'Keefe, the undercover videographer known for his recent arrest at Sen. Mary Landrieu's office and las…

Something has been missing from our conversations about the changing nature of news and journalism education,…

I have thought long and hard about writing this post about Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the racial debate touche…

Rosa Clemente doesn't take things at face value. My first clue about that was when when the Green Party vice-…

Some months ago, a phone conversation with my BlogHer colleague Rita Arens turned toward my experience of hav…

National Public Radio's Michel Martin has a gold-plated mainstream-media resumé that stretches back over 25 …