Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
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Why China Eclipsed Russia
As the 60th anniversary of China's Communist revolution approaches, Peter Osnos, the former Moscow... MORE
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A Censorship Test for China
Peter Osnos peruses a Beijing bookstore and finds that they also read Lolita in Beijing—but Marx... MORE
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The Heroes Who Can Save Journalism
From David Rohde’s escape from the Taliban to citizen journalists in Tehran, Peter Osnos says... MORE
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Does the Press Love Obama More Than Reagan?
The media might be kinder to Obama than it was to Reagan, but the treatment has less to do with... MORE
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Why the Times Blew Watergate
A recent article in The New York Times suggested that the paper “mysteriously” lost a scoop on... MORE
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The Hot New On-Demand Indie-Film Network
As independent-film theaters are increasingly pushed off the cinema landscape by hulking... MORE
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Buy One Book, Get One Free
With the Amazon Kindle capturing more of the reading market, is there a future for traditional... MORE
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The Scrappy Entrepreneurs Who Will Save Media
The future of news isn’t newspapers, blogs, or revenue-sharing models—it’s all three.... MORE
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Can the Re-launched Newsweek Survive?
The 76-year-old newsweekly is attempting a full-scale resurrection this month, cutting bureaucracy... MORE
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Turning Politics Into Cash
Amid a continuously awful media environment, the folks behind Politico seem to have figured out a... MORE
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Is Google the Next AOL?
Consumers rebel against arrogant monopolies, which is how AT&T, IBM, and America Online all got cut... MORE
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Don't Write Off Books
The ascent of the Kindle and other e-readers has many continuing to predict the death of the... MORE
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Washington's Longest-Running Reality Show
Thirty years after its founding, C-SPAN may be the butt of many jokes, but the network’s endurance... MORE
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Can Foreign Policy Be Saved?
If President Obama is serious about foreign policy, then he should heed a new book by the dean of... MORE
