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Tuition at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism costs an eye-watering $83,844 a year. That is a LOT of money. And CJS is only a one-year program. If you are going to a university as a journalism major, and it’s a...

There was a fascinating news story on CBS This Morning (this morning). As Trump was in Korea, CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy went to Dandong, North Korea, to do a story about the massive amount of trade that goes...

Max Lanman’s girlfriend had a problem. She had an old 1996 Honda Accord, with 141,095 miles on it that she wanted to sell. She was asking $499. Now, in the olden days, if you wanted to sell a used...

Last night, Lisa and I watched a documentary on a British online network called Acorn, about the Orient Express. We were particularly interested, as we had actually taken the Orient Express from London to Venice earlier this year. The trip was...

Generals always end up fighting the last war. In the First World War, the British were intent on the gallantry of the galloping lancers. That proved to be of not much value when gallantly galloping into machine guns. Likewise,...

Five hundred years ago today, Martin Luther, an unknown monk in an insignificant village in Germany posted his 95 Theses, his complaints against the Pope and the Church on the door of the Cathedral at Wittenberg. Had Luther only...

Geoffrey Roth may not look the part of a radical television revolutionary, a pioneer in an industry filled with nervous executives, but trust me, he is. I first met Geoffrey Roth face to face at MoJoCon in Ireland last year....

There has been a lot of talk of late about the arrival of the Singularity, the moment when human and computer merge. This does not come (if it comes) in one moment, but rather in small and incremental steps....

I am reading Walter Isaacson’s terrific new biography of Leonardo da Vinci. Walter Isaacson has a long history now of writing great biographies, from Steve Jobs to Einstein to Benjamin Franklin. All three of them could be marked as ‘genius’,...

Meet Ben Sargent. Maybe you recognize him as the star of Back Yard Goldmine on DIY Network. Or maybe you recognize him as the star of Unique Sleepson The Travel Channel. Or maybe you saw him on Throwdown on...