Culture and Society

Can news reporters use virtual reality? This is the question that participants at “Sucked Into the Story: Virtual Reality and News” tried to answer at SXSW. I had the feeling that somewhere around 1950, a similar group of people sat around discussing what the impact of “this television thing” would be on radio news. We may be at a similar juncture.

Sometimes you have to live voraciously because life is short and there isn't much time. "Bang! The Bert Berns Story," screened at SXSW, proves the point.

A film must have strong characters to be remembered. I will remember 'The Waiting' for a long time, not only because of its characters, but because of how well they were used to explore human depravity,

The more you invest in your readers, the more they’ll reciprocate and invest in you, so keep their best interests at heart and make value your number one priority.

The Al Jazeera news network described its recently announced layoffs as "a workforce optimisation initiative," trying to smooth over the sting with fancy-sounding words.

While orchids' majesty is best experienced in the daytime, their exotic mystery is best sensed in the evening.

Bernard McMahon and Allison McGourtey's loving tribute to American musical history doubles as an entertaining concert film.

The Mars 2030 Experience is not just a video game, but a highly detailed and accurate simulation of the surface of Mars, based on data and photographs from the Mars Rover and a European satellite orbiting the red planet. It's part of a larger effort to determine the feasibility of establishing human habitation on Mars.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater joined series creator Sam Esmail at SXSW film panel “Coding on Camera: MR. ROBOT and Authenticity on TV.” SXSW was the site of the show’s premiere last year. This year, participants in the Golden Globe Award-winning series came back to celebrate and discuss the show’s success.

"How Performance Management is Killing Performance - and What to do About It" by M. Tamra Chandler is a vital new book on how to rethink, redesign, and reboot performance management.