Timothy J. McNulty

I first entered China walking along a stony railroad bed though an opening in a loose coil of barbed wire. A commuter train had taken dozens of Chinese and a...

For all the potential of the Internet, there are times when I consider it a cesspool of misinformation, ignorant opinion and faked imagery. I also find it confusing and untrustworthy....

When media executives talk about diversity, the focus is generally on the need to hire more minorities. A different way of thinking about it is that the media need to...

The following saying is attributed to Mark Twain, which means there is at best a 50-50 chance he actually said it. Everyone knows they can do two things better: run...

Every so often I am reminded that what we call the "mass media" is really a collection of individuals, and the relationships they build with their readers are often surprising...

The more a news organization uses anonymous sources in its stories and anonymous postings on its Web sites the less credible it will become to its customers. There are plenty...

Thank you. Hundreds of readers responded to last week's column asking what they value in the Tribune. Your letters have such keen observations; they are humbling to read. Readers commented...

Why do you read the newspaper? Let me put it another way: What do you value in the newspaper? For those not keeping up with the news about the media...

A single hyphenated word on the Tribune's front page the morning after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination struck me as odd, a combination of wistful and unreal. Obama...