The acclaimed Washington Post television critic Tom Shales has died, his frequent collaborator James Andrew Miller shared Saturday on social media. Shales was 79 years old. Shales died following ...

Shales admired nothing so much as ambition, but he also managed the feat of having high standards about lowbrow things. By Jason Zinoman “How-word Co-sell — you heard the bell and you came out talking ...

Tom Shales, an Elgin native and Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post, died Saturday. He was 79. His death at a hospital in Virginia was attributed to complications related ...

The heyday of Tom Shales is almost inconceivable now. One critic dominating the entire television industry, watching everything and passing judgment on virtually every program and newscast, is ...

Tom Shales, the Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic who was forced out at the Washington Post in 2010 after 39 years, still takes every opportunity he can to bash the paper. In a Facebook post on ...

This is FRESH AIR. Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales, known for his biting wit and for never holding back and expressing his strong opinions, died on Saturday from complications of ...

Is Tom Shales the Washington Post’s television critic? Or not? Rumors have been circulating through the Post newsroom that Shales would be done on December 31. After reviewing television for most of ...

Mr. Shales took a buyout from the Post in 2006 and has been working on contract ever since. He says that he burned through his buyout in the stock market and just generally “ate it.” He’s going to ...

The year was 1977. A new science fiction movie was making its debut - "Star Wars." On this May the 4th, now also known as Star Wars Day, we listen back to an original NPR review of the now beloved ...

Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va. He was 79. The cause was complications from covid and renal failure, ...