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The Huffington Posts' HuffPost Good News website has become one of the most successful positive news sites, with 5.5 million unique viewers in August, an increase of 85 percent over the previous year, according to comScore. Although the entire website received 115 million unique views in August, the good news section attracted about 5 percent of that total to create a viable niche. (Credit: Screenshot HuffPost Good News)

HARPER: Man pets dog: Mixed results when journalists focus on the positive

By Christopher Harper

This undated file image posted on a militant website Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching through Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

White House dickers on terminology: War vs. conflict vs. hostilities

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Larry Claffy, right, of Overland and a patron of Faraci Pizza in Ferguson, Mo., has words with a protester as police move in to break up the confrontation on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. There has been unrest in the St. Louis suburb since the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, by a white police officer. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)

Ferguson police arrest protesters, freelance journalist for CNN

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State group during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center- File)

Islamic State presses on, attacking key towns in Iraq and Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration on the continued negative Obama economy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Voters prepare to strike back

By Donald Lambro

Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria is accused of plagiarizing for articles he wrote for Newsweek. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file) ** FILE **

Newsweek adds plagiarism warning to articles written by Fareed Zakaria

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this 2013 photo provided by Oregon Field Guide, photographer Andy Maser, right, photographs caver Eddy Cartaya, center, near a glacier cave in the Mount Hood Wilderness area in Oregon for an episode of &quot;Oregon Field Guide&quot; for Oregon Public Broadcasting. The U.S. Forest Service said Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, that it is extending the period for the public to weigh in on a proposal that would make permanent new rules and permit fees for commercial video and still photography in federally designated wilderness areas. (AP Photo/Courtesy Oregon Public Broadcasting, Katie Campbell)

Forest Service backs off federal land photo fee for press

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks about the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes against militants in Syria., Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, on the South Lawn the White House, in Washington. The president said the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes against militants in Syria &quot;makes it clear to the world this is not America's fight alone.&quot; Afterward the boarded Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then onto New York and the United Nations. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

HARPER: Obama spins war by getting journalists off the record

By Christopher Harper

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jason Chaffetz on Secret Service security holes: ‘Really scares me’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Protestors gather to have the minimum wage raised to $15 an hour in front of a McDonald's in Flint, Michigan. (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May)

ISTOOK: An equally wrongheaded ‘Plan B’ on the minimum wage

By Ernest Istook

Incoming Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan (Washington Post photo)

The Washington Post makes room for a Republican publisher

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Footage from HBO's "The Wire" shows a scene from the show's final season, which interprets life at the Baltimore Sun newspaper.

Police: Actor Anwan Glover stabbed at DC nightclub

Associated Press

Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, says his group's three-day "Road to Majority" conference beginning June 19 will feature a host of conservative luminaries as speakers. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: ‘From Benghazi to Bergdahzi’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb, 18, 2011 file photo a vehicle drives out of the Sverdrup Gate of Fort Leonard Wood near Rolla, Mo. Staff Sgt. Angel M. Sanchez, a former drill sergeant at the base, was accused Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at a pretrial hearing at the post of sexually assaulting several female soldiers during the past three years, including at least one while he was deployed in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

Sergeant accused of sexually assaulting soldiers

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER - Associated Press

Va. fourth grader may have broken running record

Associated Press