Journalism & Press — Rory O'Connor

Byline

Newspapers & national magazines

Rory O'Connor in his print-journalism days, in a Boston newsroom — In the Boston newsrooms of *The Real Paper* and *The Phoenix* — Rory's print-journalism years.

Prior to his work in broadcast and cable, Rory was a print journalist — writing and editing for newspapers and magazines including The Boston Globe, The Phoenix, Boston Magazine, and The Real Paper, where he served in a variety of senior editorial positions including Managing Editor.

His articles have appeared in such leading national periodicals as The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Vogue, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Newsweek.

Columns & online writing

Media criticism on the web

Managing editor & columnist

MediaChannel

Managing editor and columnist for a decade at the pioneering global media-watchdog site co-founded with Danny Schechter. Archive of essays on press freedom, accountability, and the business of news (Wayback Machine).

MediaChannel.org

Columns & commentary

HuffPost author archive

Years of columns on politics, media, and technology — from cable-news coverage of war, to the rise of social platforms, to the state of investigative journalism.

HuffPost

Reporting & criticism

AlterNet

Regular contributor on media consolidation, talk radio, and the American information ecosystem. Home of the reporting that became Shock Jocks.

AlterNet

Essays & commentary

Al Jazeera

Essays and commentary on U.S. foreign policy, global human-rights reporting, and the trans-Atlantic conversation about press freedom.

Al Jazeera

Reporting · Oct 14, 2011

Insider's voice doubts CIA on 9/11

For Salon, an investigative piece on intelligence-community dissent over the official 9/11 narrative — drawing on the reporting that informed the documentary 9/11: Press for Truth.

Salon

Profile

Mic profile

Additional columns and interviews hosted at Mic.

Mic

In their words

Press response

Going where the networks won't.

The Boston Globe

The big three networks … are being put to shame by Globalvision.

Detroit Free Press

Offers something we don't see so much of anymore on network television.

NBC's Today Show

An unyielding commitment to excellence.

Channels Magazine

Raw, gritty and powerful … high-risk television with an edge.

Associated Press

Energetic, inventive, intelligent — the most refreshing and informative news program I've seen in a long time.

The Nation

A montage of press logos and reviews from Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Newsweek, TIME, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, CNN, MTV, and others — Reviews and coverage of the work in *Rolling Stone*, *The New York Times*, *Newsweek*, *TIME*, the *Los Angeles Times*, the *Boston Globe*, and others.