Peter Sterne

Worry about the Espionage Act, not libel laws

The most dangerous place to be a journalist in America is at a protest. That's a key early takeaway from the …

At the beginning of last year, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker started cataloguing every violation of press fr…

With just a few days to go until the one year anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump, an avowed crit…

In the century since the act went into effect, it's been used against much more than just foreign spies. Soci…

There has only been one instance in the last hundred years when a Congressional committee subpoenaed reporter…

Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, in order to protect its assets from seizur…

How a digital trailblazer and progressive powerhouse lost its way

In November, Gawker announced that it would shift its focus to political reporting. Has anything changed?

While the sheer size of the judgment is unexpected, the fact that the jury decided in favor of Hogan is not. …

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The president of the oldest organization for journalism professionals in the country i…

Earlier this week, Maxim filed a lawsuit against former employees Jason Feifer and Wayne Gross for defamation…

Behind the scenes, the pace of change at Gawker had already been accelerating. Several announcements made Tue…

During a contentious meeting with his editorial staff on July 21, Gawker C.E.O. Nick Denton found himself hav…

Lately, the News Guild has been overshadowed by the Writers Guild of America-East union, which has organized …

Nick Denton is preparing for the biggest fight of his life. The Gawker Media founder and C.E.O.'s opponent: c…

Earlier this month, the company quietly introduced what could become its most significant feature — the abili…

I called up the legendary media critic Jack Shafer after word got out he'd been laid off at Reuters. There wa…

Originally founded by Harry Kargman a decade and a half ago, Kargo is something of an outlier, a boutique pla…

The magazine is not content to be a relic of the slow-news movement — even a successful one.

The announcement two weeks ago that Emma Carmichael, editor of The Hairpin, will succeed Jessica Coen as edit…

On Saturday, Jan. 4, Mediaite's managing editor Jon Nicosia published a confessional blog post in which he to…

Only snatches of the conversation between Brzezinski and the CBS executive could be overheard from where the …

Some say that Newsweek's parent company is actually controlled by — or at least has very close undisclosed ti…