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The husband of Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), one of the most powerful Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, is the "galloping favorite" to buy Newsweek from The Washington Post.
It is always dangerous for a reporter to become the story. For Helen Thomas, two months before her 90th birthday, it has meant the end of her career.
Las Vegas Sun’s Jon Ralston ignores real polls and presents a mixture of straw polls and home-cook Dem ones. Ralston said Republicans smell “the scent of fear.” Voters in Nevada certainly smell something–it’s doubtful it’s fear.
Circulation continues to drop at U.S. newspapers. Figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations show average weekday circulation fell 8.7 percent in the six months that ended March 31, compared with the same period a year earlier.
Since 1941, Captain America has been one of the most popular comic book characters around. The fictional super-patriot fought Nazis during World War II, took on those who burned the American flag during the Vietnam era, and raked in hundreds of milli
After 108 years in business, the magazine, Editor & Publisher, is shutting down. Is it a sign of the times--or the Times, as in NY Times?
WASHINGTON –The head of the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday the agency will study whether government should aid struggling news organizations, which are suffering from a collapse in advertising revenues as the internet upends their centuries-ol
While US newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies have their circulation rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies. New auditing rules made it easier for newspapers to count a reader as a paying customer.
NEW YORK (AP) - Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said.
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Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli says he knew more about the controversial “salons” the paper had planned than previously has been reported, including the fact that they were being billed as “off-the-record” to potential sponsors.
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights. Today's published Commons order papers contain
Developments surrounding Matt Taibbi's supposed video of a Penson trade are escalating. Penson has alerted the SEC that the supposed Penson video is not video of a Penson trading platform.
In a meeting of New York conservative activists earlier this month, Andrew Breitbart received a raucous standing ovation for doing something many conservatives never dreamed possible. He beat The New York Times.
The role of executive compensation in our financial crisis might seem an unlikely subject to spark a minor civil war between the editors and columnists of the New York Times. But that's exactly what seems to be happening.
NEW YORK While the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday takes up the issue of a federal shield law, another congressional committee in the House will be focused on the impact of the newspaper industry's financial problems.
Although he is African-American, Broughton said race is not a factor in
his beliefs. He said during the rally several people told him that he
should be supporting Obama because he is Black. He called the idea
preposterous. "I am an American. The color of my skin shouldn't even
matter."
The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can't be trusted, not because he is a politician, but because he's black.
It's undeniable that the going rate for information on the internet
is "free." That's meant big trouble for newspapers, which have seen
nearly all of their traditional roles usurped by better, faster, free
online services over the past few years. If a newspaper doesn't make
its content available gratis on the Web, it's irrelevant. If it does,
it's got nothing left to sell but fishwrap and inkstains.
The Wall Street Journal's publisher Les Hinton has called Google a "digital vampire," but even his paper, one of the last holdouts of subscription-based online content, has made its articles' full text accessible via Google searches. Using free content as bait for paying customers doesn't work for newspapers. And the revenue from internet advertising is less a stream than a dribble — nowhere near enough to support a robust paper (or paperless paper) on its own.
Freedom Communications, Inc. announced today that Scott Flanders, its president and chief executive officer since January 2006, has resigned to take the CEO post at Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
A necessary pillar of democracy, a Senate subcommittee examined the state of American journalism at a time when newspapers are being shuttered and downsized and network TV news audiences are declining. Newspaper Revitalization Act
The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England's most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks.
NEW YORK – When it bought the Boston Globe for a record $1.1 billion in 1993, the New York Times Co. added one of the nation's most acclaimed and profitable newspapers to its empire. But analysts say the 137-year-old Globe has been a money-loser
A new Senate bill that would give government funding to struggling newspapers could result in complete state control of the press, critics say.The government funding could make participating papers less likely to criticize the administration in power
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How could one of the finest newspapers in the West get shot dead in its old age. You will find the answer astoundingly interesting.
Bankruptcies are piling up in the newspaper industry as debt-strapped publishers acknowledge that their businesses are deteriorating faster and for longer than they previously anticipated.
The Arizona Daily Star sued a local punk rock band for copyright infringement because it used a slain police officer's photo to illustrate its album. The band, Awful Truth, used the photo to promote its album, "Kill a Cop for God."
Morale in both shops has been devastated as staffers complain about a blurred identity, lack of direction, management snafus and outsourcing to big-name writers that has left them wondering if reporters still have much of a role.
New York Times offers prestige to Mexican billionaire looking to expand into US market
