Year in Review 2008
Best Pictures
Best Reads
When people read for pleasure, they want to be told something they don't know. Good reads should be surprising, engaging, revealing, evocative.
Toni Reinhold, editor-in-charge of the equities desk, picks some of the best reads of 2008.
The Best of Oddly Enough
Oddly Enough Blog
It was a great year for really stupid stuff. Absurdity and irony abounded. Here are my own favorite ten for the year, like anybody cares.
- Bob Basler, Oddly Enough Blog Editor
2008 Award Winners
Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography
Reuters won a Pulitzer Prize for a photo by Adrees Latif of a Japanese videographer killed during a demonstration in Myanmar.
Full Article | Blog | Audio Slideshow
Bearing Witness
Reuters multimedia look at five years of reporting on the war in Iraq received honors from the New York Photo Awards and the Online News Association Watch Now
Quotes of the year
Most Popular of 2008
- Articles
- Videos
- Blogs
- Searches
- Buffett's "time bomb" goes off on Wall Street
- U.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO
- Penis theft panic hits city...
- Lehman CEO Fuld's hubris contributed to meltdown
- The dumbest ever quiz answers
- Palin's troubles mount for McCain
- Bare-breasted virgins compete for Swaziland king
- Honey, will you marry... Oh. Never mind...
- Fleetwood Mac surprised by Sheryl Crow claim
- Women arrested in sex competition
- This one is worth a thousand words
- How Did He Shoot That?
- Vatican official attacks U.S. Democrats as “party of death”
- Obama says pointed abortion query “above his pay grade”
- In slip up, Palin calls Afghanistan “our neighboring country”
- Top House Democrat denounces Clinton campaign tactics
- McCain finds it tough without Palin
- SNL spoofs Palin vs Biden debate
- McCain “disappointed” that media declared debate a tie
- Obama, McCain face rematch in Senate race
A look ahead
Place your bets on 2009
What do you think next year will bring? Make a virtual wager on next year's news or pose a question of your own via the Hubdub news prediction site. Read more
