A bombshell is buried in Harry Markopolos' prepared testimony to a House panel today: he contacted the Wall Street Journal on the Bernie Madoff fraud three years ago, and the newspaper did nothing.

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After a decade of watching newspapers and rival wire services shrink, The Associated Press is refitting itself to handle the 24-hour news cycle it helped create.

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Did the last-minute side deal for News Corporation to pay the Bancroft family's advisers' fees influence the advice the family received?

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Rupert Murdoch is buying another paper because he is a sentimentalist, not because he has great skill at making money with them.

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Rupert Murdoch's history with other newspapers may provide clues on his plans for The Wall Street Journal.

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Rupert Murdoch appears to have enough support from the divided Bancroft family for his News Corporation to buy The Wall Street Journal and the rest of Dow Jones for $5 billion.

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The unthinkable is often doable, given the loot and the will.

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Staffers at the Wall Street Journal face the uncertainty of a new owner and a suddenly harsh advertising climate.

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Board members plan to meet today with Ronald W. Burkle in an effort to find a bidder other than News Corporation.

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Rupert Murdoch's vast media holdings give him a gamut of tools to enhance his financial interests and establish his legitimacy in the United States.

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Some at The Wall Street Journal are calling the decision between potential bidders a choice between "trash or slash."

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The union has begun talks with aides to Ronald W. Burkle, a California billionaire, to head off a takeover by Rupert Murdoch.

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For many people, especially shareholders, money often makes the bitterest of medicines easier to swallow. So too for the Bancroft family, it would seem.

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The decision represents an about-face for both the company and Rupert Murdoch's bid and could end more than a century of family ownership.

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Lagging profit margins and a poor financial outlook may have made The Wall Street Journal an attractive target.

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Paul E. Steiger, the paper's top editor who knew of Rupert Murdoch's offer, is said to have decided not to publish any news of it.

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The media baron is known to take a hands-on approach to his politically barbed and sometimes racy properties.

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What does the sale by the McClatchy Company of The Minneapolis Star Tribune at a reduced price to a private equity group say about the future of newspapers?

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