Timothy J. McNulty

Last week a reader suggested the newspaper replace the name Old Testament with "Hebrew Bible" or another term such as "First Testament" or "Early Scriptures." Readers were quick to add...

The message was polite but firm: Please stop referring to the "Old Testament." "Some, maybe many, Jews take offense at use of the term 'Old Testament,' " complained reader Dick...

A California online community magazine is outsourcing two reporter jobs to India to cover the Pasadena City Council meetings. The journalists will watch the sessions on the Internet, file reports...

One of the roles for journalists and pamphleteers since the days of the American colonies was to be an irritant to the Establishment. Some claim "mainstream media" are too often...

A public television report Wednesday night portrayed the media in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 as nothing more than unquestioning toadies of the Bush...

There is, of course, no such thing as complete objectivity. Journalists wrap themselves in the idea that they can look at the world objectively. And some readers insist that if...

Individuals change their minds often, but a change of mind for a newspaper's editorial position, especially one that has stood since at least 1869, is far less common. When the...

On Sunday, the Tribune published a 4,618-word article with the headline "The not-so-simple story of Barack Obama's youth." The article was described as the first in an occasional series. A...

When does a story on medical research deserve to be on the front page? Looking at editors' decisions in the last year, that call is neither science nor art but...

I was tempted to let this one pass. Dozens of readers called to complain, but there were only a few e-mails and letters. The reaction, it seemed, was intense but...