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The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times were the only newspapers to win multiple honors as the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday. The California paper took the top prize, for public service, and the award for feature photography.

A while back, All Things Considered brought you the story of a breakthrough technology: the robot journalist.Okay, so it's not really a robot. It's actually a software program.

Although Tunisians overthrew their longtime dictator Ben Ali, many young activists say the country’s mass media remains in control of the former regime.

New York Times photographer Lynsey Addario's attempt to document the retreat of Libyan rebels near Benghazi left her in the custody of Moammar Gadhafi's soldiers — who abused Addario and three of her colleagues for several days, before their release on March 21.In an interview slat

In August 2007, journalist Chauncey Bailey was gunned down in broad daylight, in downtown Oakland, Calif., by a masked man armed with a shotgun.Bailey was an editor at the Oakland Post, a newspaper that primarily serves Oakland's black community.

Over the years, conservatives have often tried to eliminate money for public broadcasting — without succeeding.In 1995, for instance, congressional Republicans tried to zero out funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

A report Monday on the conflict in Libya by Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin sparked a brief spat between two leading cable news channels, but it also revealed the tricky choices involved in reporting on armed rebellion and authoritarian regimes.On Sunday, missiles launched on Tripoli from U.