Journalism

Under Fire: Journalists in Combat

Wanted: Spring 2012 Journalism Interns!

www.shutterstock.com​Calling all journalism students! The Houston Press is recruiting undergraduate journalism and communications students for its Spring 2012 internship program. By "student," we do not mean "a student of life;" we mean "currently enrolled in college student." There's no cas ... More >>

Houston Press Internships: Get On the Stick

www.shutterstock.com​Time is running short, journalism students. The Houston Press is recruiting undergraduate journalism and communications students for its Spring 2012 internship program, and the deadline is fast approaching. By "student," we do not mean "a student of life"; we mean "curren ... More >>

Wanted: Spring 2012 Journalism Interns!

www.shutterstock.com​Calling all journalism students! The Houston Press is recruiting undergraduate journalism and communications students for its Spring 2012 internship program. By "student," we do not mean "a student of life;" we mean "currently enrolled in college student." There's no cash ... More >>

Wanted: Spring 2012 Journalism Interns!

www.shutterstock.com​Calling all journalism students! The Houston Press is recruiting undergraduate journalism and communications students for its Spring 2012 internship program. By "student," we do not mean "a student of life;" we mean "currently enrolled in college student." There's no cash ... More >>

Be A Houston Press Intern This Spring

www.shutterstock.com​Calling all journalism students! The Houston Press is recruiting undergraduate journalism and communications students for its Spring 2012 internship program. By "student," we do not mean "a student of life;" we mean "currently enrolled in college student." There's no cas ... More >>

Conroe Native Courtney Smith Crashes Rock-Lit Boys Club

​Introducing music journalism's latest female-penned release, Courtney E. Smith's Record Collecting for Girls. Following suit with like-minded veteran writers like Sara Marcus and Jessica Hopper, Smith's first book boldly tackles the music memoir, a literary genre historically saturated with ... More >>

The Austin Food Blogger Alliance Weighs Ethics Against Charity

​Texas is ablaze today, wildfires ravaging Bastrop and threatening small towns outside of Austin. Fifty-seven fires are burning across 100,000 acres of Central Texas, and more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed since this latest rash of fires broke out on Monday. And in Austin, local blogger ... More >>

What Is A Music Critic's Life Really Like?

​Walter Peck: Because I'm curious. I wanna know more about what you do here! Frankly, I've heard a lot of wild stories in the media and we want to assess any possibility of dangerous and possibly hazardous waste chemicals in your basement. - Ghostbusters Rocks Off can promise you we are not h ... More >>

Montrose Muffled

Residents take sides on bar noise issue.

William McRaven, UT Journalism Grad, SEAL Boss: Five Stories He Might Have Written As a Cub Reporter

How many units responded to the fire, McRaven?​As we noted yesterday, Admiral William McRaven, the head of Special Ops who commanded the raid that got Osama bin Laden, is a University of Texas grad with a degree in journalism. Like many cub reporters, he decided his journalism skills would be ... More >>

KIAH's "NewsFix": The Anticipated TV News Revolution Begins Saturday, But We Won't Be Covering It

What NewsFix is...will be revealed Saturday​The world, or at least that portion of it peopled by journalists, is mightily anticipating Channel 39's Saturday night newscast. Why would they care about a weekend newscast that Houston barely watches? Because most of them will be gleefully hoping ... More >>

Professor Trill

Bun B examines hip hop and religion in his Rice U course

Mexican Pop Singer Fights Rape Allegations, Racism

​The latest chapter in Mexican pop singer Kalimba's life saddens us for a number of reasons, but the possibility of never hearing his music again is not one of them. If you haven't heard, while recording his latest album in El Paso, Kalimba was held by the U.S. Border Patrol on suspicion of ... More >>

Pardon the DeLay

Readers weigh in on politician's guilty verdict.

Angry Blue October Fan Appeals Our Ethics To Washington Post

Blue October fans, still carping​All these months later, and some Blue Meanies (as Blue October fans call themselves) won't let it go...Yesterday, in one of Washington Post feature writer Gene Weingarten's hosted chats, a reader wanted to know what the two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winner thought about ... More >>

Getting Played

Readers respond to our story on the Trae ban at 97.9 The Box.

Getting Creamed

Online readers respond to high school girls slathered in whipped cream and chocolate.

Stop the Presses

What's next? Holographic newspapers?

Artopia

What's next? Holographic newspapers?

Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker

Drugs, sex and...black history month?

Death of a Dancer

And more reader responses from the past week

The Right Distance

Web exclusive!

“Beyond the Walls: The Battle for Iraq’s Future”

Web exclusive!

Stephen Hunter

The fifth Bob Lee Swagger novel shoves it all in there

Robin Wright

One of the country's most acclaimed war reporters lets us in on a couple of secrets

The Unforgettable Tour

Big Brassy Bollywood arrives in Texas

Barack Obama and Me

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

A Woman in Charge author Carl Bernstein

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells all in a Hillary Clinton biography

Don't Free SPM

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells all in a Hillary Clinton biography