The New York Times Company said on Thursday that it added digital subscribers and slowed its declines in print and digital advertising revenue during the fourth quarter of 2013, a year of transition for the company. For all of 2013, revenue from digital-only subscriptions, a primary growth engine…

Tech isn't just a talking point, it's the media's new context. Via youtube.com If you want to understand Ezra Klein's departure from the Washington Post to Vox Media, as well as the context of the larger conversation about "the future of web journalism," this line from a recent interview is a good…

Credit... Photo illustration by Craig Cutler for The New York Times Not long ago, I was at a dinner party with several couples in their 40s, all married except for my boyfriend and me. The mood was jovial until, over dessert, one guest made an offhand joke about Internet porn. His wife took issue,…

Derrick Brooks Derrick Brooks, a legendarily unflappable player who played 14 seasons at linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , started out like a lot of…

Chris Christie in Trenton last week at his inauguration for a second term as governor. Credit... Michael Appleton for The New York Times His campaign called them “the Top 100,” the swing towns that Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey wanted to win as he prepared for a re-election campaign. Capturing…

At a community hearing last week, Mayor Dawn Zimmer of Hoboken, N.J., presented a plan to protect the town from flooding should it get the necessary funding. Credit... Christopher Gregory for The New York Times HOBOKEN, N.J. — Last May 8, a severe rainstorm left the streets of this city flooded once…

Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick was named interim president of Howard after Sidney Ribeau suddenly stepped down. Credit... Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times IT COULD BE SAID that Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick, acting president of Howard University, was to the manner born. On his birth 42 years ago in Port of…

Subscribe The Senate passed on Thursday a farm bill that took two years to complete. Most of the discussion around the bill—and the reason for the delay—concerns the level of cuts to food stamps , which wound up at $8.7 billion over 10 years (about 1 percent of the overall program). But while the…

Photo: Jim Merithew/WIRED The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous. Specifically , they implemented distributed…

BAKSAN, Russia — On Friday, exactly a week before the Olympics were set to open just 180 miles away, Russia’s security forces appeared on Makhov Street at 8:30 a.m. and cordoned off the area around a brick and stone house. One of the men inside called his father, who said it was the first he had…

Obama’s Presidency is on the clock. Hard as it has been to pass legislation, the coming year is a marker, the final interval before the fight for succession becomes politically all-consuming. Photographs by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving, Barack Obama sat…

Rebecca Burns is author of three books on Atlanta history. She teaches journalism at Emory University and the University of Georgia and tweets at @RebeccaBurns. She lives in Atlanta. On Tuesday, snowfall of just over 2 inches shut down metropolitan Atlanta’s roads, schools, churches, government…

Rooftop water towers are the primary source of drinking water for many New Yorkers, yet frequently they are poorly maintained, and present a potential health hazard. With their quaint barrel-like contours and weathered cedar-plank sides, rooftop water towers are a constant on the New York City…

Illustration by Thomas Allen T he New York literary industry stands at the front door and frets over the guest list, while everyone else is sneaking out the back. There are many better parties. Though e-books — and soon we’ll call them books — will not destroy the publishing industry any more than…

Darius Kazemi builds "bots," small, automated programs that create mischievous/funny/poignant Twitter feeds, or other randomly generated things that cleverly comment on the digital world. Lane Turner/Globe Staff In the recent Spike Jonze film “Her,” a lonely man buys a futuristic Siri-style computer…

MAY 6, 2013, HOT 97, LIVE ON AIR: Good morning to everybody! I’m here, and I’m ready to go, man. Are you gay? I am not gay. Every weekday, Calvin Lebrun—Wallop King, the Finisher, or as he’s known to most of the New York City area and around the world, Mister Cee—rises around 10 A.M., thinking about…

W hen I tell someone I don’t know well that I’m engaged, the first question they ask is, “What’s his name?” and then inevitably, “What does he do?” When I answer that J works in the warehouse of a big box electronic store, they usually ask “Oh, is he in school?” My doctor, my professors, that chick…

Credit Illustration by Tom Bachtell By the time the contenders for Super Bowl XLVIII were set, two weekends ago, a hero and a villain had been chosen, too. The Denver Broncos’ quarterback, the aging, lovable Peyton Manning, had outplayed the Patriots to win the A.F.C. title. Meanwhile, in the N.F.C.…

Clive Davis Credit Illustration by Tom Bachtell You’ve probably seated your share of dinner parties: writing the names of the guests on place cards (wishing your handwriting was better) and trying to calculate who might thrive next to whom. So imagine the dinner is for some nine hundred of the most…

When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence…

Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi may run to become Egypt’s president. Credit... Khaled Elfiqi/European Pressphoto Agency CAIRO — When Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, named Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi defense minister, the officer pledged to keep the military out of politics and make way for…

Bouthaina Shaaban, center, a Syrian presidential adviser, after a briefing with journalists in Geneva. GENEVA — For Syrian officials, a lakeside idyll here, far from their country’s war, has been marred by what plainly feels to them like an endless stream of impertinent questions . They have been…

Another insane cold wave — not the infamous “ polar vortex ” but its evil twin — is bringing sub-zero and single-digit temperatures to much of the nation. And global warming may be even more extreme, and potentially more catastrophic, than climate scientists had feared. This is, of course, no…

One of the odd things about America has long been the immense range of people who consider themselves middle class — and are deluding themselves. Low-paid workers who would be considered poor by international standards, say with incomes below half the median, nonetheless considered themselves…

Long time readers of Sean Wilentz will remember him for greatest hits like his notorious piece on the “cutthroat, fraudulent politics that lie at the foundation…

David Phillip/AP Images THE WOMAN WHO planned the show wasn't on the field to see her months of work go up in flames. Salli Frattini, an executive producer at MTV, which was contracted by the NFL to produce the halftime concert, was supervising from the production truck outside the stadium. She and…

This will be the year CNN sees the majority of its online audience come from mobile devices. There’s a level of inevitability to that stat that almost seems…

The profile of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky in Sunday’s Times was notable for many reasons. It was a fascinating and well-researched read on the libertarian…

Riff Credit... Illustration by Tom Gauld In the summer of 1978, during a preseason game, a wide receiver for the New England Patriots named Darryl Stingley lunged for a pass just out of his reach. Before he could regain his balance, he was hit by Jack Tatum, an Oakland Raiders defensive back. It was…

Rand Paul Making Headlines Senator Rand Paul has established himself as a national figure over the past 12 months, raising the question of whether he will…

Richard Sherman is everything one could want in a professional athlete. He is a walking example of the difference sports can make, of how one man can channel fierce intelligence and an almost frightening competitive fire into something productive and riveting. He is precisely the type of person you…

Stas Kozlyuk/Demotix/Corbis Antigovernment protesters with a flag showing imprisoned former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Kiev, Ukraine, November 24, 2013 “Revolution!” This is what they are shouting in Kiev. Ever since November 21 tens of thousands have been on the streets of the capital of…

Photo James Dillon inside his home in Trinity, N.C. Mr. Dillon has found himself in a cycle of debt with payday lenders. Credit Travis Dove for The New York Times Federal prosecutors are trying to thwart the easy access that predatory lenders and dubious online merchants have to Americans’ bank…

Tom Boucher, who owns seven restaurants in New Hampshire, said a wage increase would reduce the number of waiters each restaurant employed. Credit... Cheryl Senter for The New York Times Nearly 50 years ago, federal law created a lower minimum wage for workers who receive tips. Congress decreed that…

Kevin Sherman, the father of Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman, in his home in Compton, Calif. Credit... Mae Ryan for The New York Times COMPTON, Calif. — Darryl Smith was dividing the pizzas among the boys’ track and field athletes of Dominguez High School when he first heard the voice he would…

House Proud Own Less, Live More 11 Photos View Slide Show › Aaron Leitz for The New York Times Early in their marriage, Lily Copenagle and Jamie Kennel began crafting a plan for living, scribbling house designs and lists of must-haves on notepads and paper napkins. The idea was simple. They would…

“The Internet’s Own Boy,” a documentary about the life and death of Aaron Swartz, premièred on Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. The life of Swartz as a coder and an Internet thinker is well known. A believer in free access to knowledge, in 2010 Swartz…

It is easy to feel that what you do won’t make any difference. Recycle that can, bike or drive, buy from this company not that one, march in the streets against the factory closing or the looming war. It’s never enough: the forces are large and anonymous, and there aren’t enough of us. Or there are…

This originally appeared at LinkedIn . You can follow Peter here . As the Travel Editor for CBS News , people expect that I spend weeks, even months, researching the process and logistics of travel. And I do. But what about airfares? I only spend minutes. It’s not just that I understand what makes a…