Amos Gelb

Much has been written about the seminal Supreme Court decision to uphold the Obama health care law. But perhaps less ...

In the book and then movie Money Ball, a contrarian baseball general manager defies the sport’s orthodoxy to build ...

It was not so long ago that the buzz in media was all about Web 2.0 – the sharing, the ...

In the not-for-the-faint world of D.C., you do not exist politically if you are not loathed by at least one group. But David Frum is in an elite category – he is hated by both sides of the fence.

For those of you who might have missed it, there was a first in the White House earlier this month ...

Nathans, the bar and restaurant on the corner of Wisconsin and M Street, seemed to have been there forever, and for many regulars and others anchored in Georgetown, it was a neighborhood staple. “Happiest day of my life when it finally closed,” said Carol Joynt, the last owner.

A quick look back at the year in media so far. Only four months you might say, but what a four months. Reality TV, for instance, has helped turn cupcakes into pastry Google.

“TBD – sums up its chances of success,” one whit said, when TBD was first announced as the name for the ...

If conventional wisdom and all the pundits are correct, studying journalism or communications in university these days renders you nuts ...

There is a new level of irony in Juan-gate at NPR. Senior Vice President for News Ellen Weiss, who spent ...

Upon the release of the first movie installment of the last novel in the Harry Potter series. Are we underwhelmed? Or are we just underwhelming?

The announcement of Jim Brady’s departure from TBD is not just the old “different direction” story. It is akin to Roger Ailes leaving FOX, Aaron Sorkin leaving the West Wing, or Steve Jobs leaving Apple. TBD, Brady’s visionary idea for the next great media thing, was a truly online local news organization that leveraged all those much-ballyhooed elements of new media — blogs, linking, social media etc. It really was a different concept.

The Georgetowner hits the town with WaPo food critic Tom Sietsema, who, depending on what he writes, is either the most beloved or the most reviled man in the Washington restaurant universe.

Each year, there are approximately 75 film festivals in the D.C. area. What's next in your neighborhood?