Peter Osnos

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.

Why China Eclipsed Russia

As the 60th anniversary of China's Communist revolution approaches, Peter Osnos, the former Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post, explains why the country of 1.4 billion didn’t go the way of the Soviet Union.

Peter Osnos

A Censorship Test for China

Peter Osnos peruses a Beijing bookstore and finds that they also read Lolita in Beijing—but Marx and Stalin collect dust.

Peter Osnos

The Heroes Who Can Save Journalism

From David Rohde’s escape from the Taliban to citizen journalists in Tehran, Peter Osnos says recent acts of journalistic bravery offer lessons for the flailing media industry about how to reconcile professional news providers with amateurs.

Peter Osnos

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 bias than it does with style.

Peter Osnos

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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 Watergate, but the real reason the Times lost the story, Peter Osnos writes, was because it was disdainful of shoe-leather journalism.

Peter Osnos

Peter Osnos

Why China Eclipsed Russia

A Censorship Test for China

The Heroes Who Can Save Journalism

Does the Press Love Obama More Than Reagan?

Why the Times Blew Watergate

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