In the span of two decades, social media has evolved from a digital curiosity into an omnipresent force, shaping global communication, commerce, and political discourse. Platforms such as Facebook, ...

Do you remember when Mad Men made three-martini lunches seem like real work? Those old days of smoke-filled rooms seem as old as dial-up internet now. Today, media has changed a lot, turning Don ...

I’ve written previously for Poynter about my fondness for covering the quadrennial Democratic and Republican conventions. Recently, I realized that some of my souvenirs from those conventions ...

For decades, media and politics have been connected at the hips. Politicians leverage media to get their message out to the public, while media uses politicians to gain advertising dollars and ...

Theories of media evolution / W. Russell Neuman -- Newspaper culture and technical innovation, 1980-2005 / Pablo J. Boczkowski -- From the telegraph and telephone to the Negroponte switch / Rich Ling ...