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Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long faced accusations of ties to organized crime, a law enforcement official said.
The bankruptcy auction for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News is on hold one week while creditors appeal a key bid rule.
A judge says creditors trying to take over Philadelphia's two major newspapers in a bankruptcy auction must bid in cash, not with the millions owed them.
The owners of Philadelphia's two major dailies are waging a late-stage battle to keep the newspapers from creditors in a looming bankruptcy auction.
Publishing online creates a new set of problems for newspapers. Some people ask to have stories "unpublished," while others leave nasty, unsigned comments on articles. Now some newspapers are appealing to their own readers for advice.
The Hannibal Courier-Post proclaims that it is "Missouri's oldest daily newspaper, serving since 1838." But it isn't quite as daily as it used to be.
The New York Times is getting a jump on The Wall Street Journal in their battle to capture more readers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News are appealing a bankruptcy court ruling that would likely give the company to creditors.
Creditors hoping to take over Philadelphia's two main daily newspapers accused the current owners Thursday of trying to "game" the bankruptcy system to keep insiders in control.
Newspapers may have finally stopped — or at least slowed — their harrowing descent into a financial abyss after three years of plunging revenues, crumbling stock prices and shrinking staffs.
Facing declining advertising revenues, newspapers should be allowed to recoup taxes they paid on profits earlier this decade to help offset some of their current losses, an industry representative told a joint committee of Congress on Thursday.
Freedom Communications is asking a bankruptcy judge to allow it to hire a broker to pursue the sale of its Phoenix-area publications, including the East Valley Tribune.
A key bankruptcy issue that could determine the next owner of Philadelphia's two main daily newspapers won't be resolved Tuesday after all.
The owners of Philadelphia's two major newspapers are trying to rally support for local management of the business — taking on banks and other creditors that hope to win the company in a bankruptcy auction. And the creditors are trying to get the campaign stopped.
Filmgoers who have long turned to the local newspaper to find theaters and show times for movies may have to start looking elsewhere as theater chains rethink the value of paper and ink in a digital age.
Investors in Philadelphia's two major newspapers are promoting the virtues of local ownership as they battle creditors for control of the company.
Philadelphia Newspapers hopes to use $35 million in new capital to settle nearly $400 million in debt and emerge from bankruptcy.
Newspapers are hurting all over the United States, but the pain is less severe at small publications like The Blackshear Times in Georgia.
Pioneer Newspapers Inc. says Mark Cohen has been named chief operating officer of the family-owned media company.
The financially struggling Seattle Times Co. on Monday sold its Blethen Maine newspapers, including the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, to an investor group led by a Pennsylvania publisher.
Ownership of scholastic athletics coverage is at stake in a legal tussle brewing over a Wisconsin newspaper's decision to carry a high school football game live on its Web site last fall.
The tough economy means the growing suburb of Apex can't replace some computers and police vehicles. So the town's mayor is pleased to save $13,000 by posting public notices of rezoning requests and major land development plans on the town's Web site, rather than in the local newspaper.
The Detroit Media Partnership says the Detroit Free Press plans layoffs.
Executives with Detroit's daily newspapers say they have kept more readers and subscribers than they expected, more than a month after reducing home delivery and increasing electronic offerings.
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. newspaper executives responding to a recent survey said their ability to inform readers has diminished with their steadily shrinking staffs.
Advertising - Online Ads Are Booming, if Theyre Attached to a VideoNews Web sites are starting to look a lot less like newspapers and a lot more like television.
Rupert Murdoch: The Internet Does Not ExistRupert continues his war with the Internet.
Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive RevengeEarlier this week the Toronto Star announced, among other changes, that it was planning to outsource some one hundred in-house, union editing jobs.
Information wants to be free, reporters want to be paid, Part 30A subsidized press is a press beholden to it's benefactors.
Major news media: The dogs that do not barkSometimes news stories are interesting for what they do not say.
What Will Google's Newspaper Crusade Mean for Readers?It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how?
David Domke: The Journalism Revolution Is Now (Podcast)Domke did a study with old and young news consumers.
The Kansas Free Press: Bold, Simple, Authentic and YoursMany of our journalists desire to exercise their 1st Amendment rights by gathering information about what happens in school board meetings, community events, county commission meetings or in the state legislature.
Newspaper Circulation Falls Almost 10%Newspaper sales moved sharply lower this year, falling about 10 percent in the six months ended Sept. 30 compared to the same period last year, according to figures released on Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Newspapers trying new revenue modelsThe kindle is one tactic the newspapers are using to try and survive.
Wall Street Journal surpasses USA Today as No. 1NEW YORK (AP) - The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States.
What has their teats in a wringer down on the UNLV campus this week?An advertisement in a UNLV newspaper has the politically correct up in arms. Some of their overwrought statements are quite amusing.
US Olympic Committee tries to block The Olympian newspaper trademarking name despite the fact that it's the paper of Olympia, WALawyers for the USOC say that the paper's name will "tend to cause confusion or mistake, to deceive, and to falsely suggest a connection" by its similarity to the Olympic brand, and should therefore be denied a trademark.
Dallas newspaper asking readers to pay the fareA newspaper tries a different tactic in it's struggle to survive, increasing quality & price.
Information wants to be free, reporters want to be paid, Part 29Newspapers must find ways to make more money online if they are to survive. Here's an intelligent discussion of what might and might not work.
Information wants to be free, reporters want to be paid, Part 28Dean Singleton, who has shut down more newspapers than most reporters ever worked for, says the future of newspapers is, well, paper.
Technology has radically changed the way we get news. The big three of radio, broadcast news and the daily paper have over the years been joined by 24 hour cable-news networks, news websites, and news blogs.
When you are drowning in a sea of information, who will toss you a line?How much information can people tread water in before they seek succor from someone to drain the swamp and just give them a glass of water?
Maybe Apple Cares About Readers After All We don't even know for sure whether Apple will ever release a tablet–although there's lots of compelling evidence that it will–and already there's a lively debate about whether the company is interested in using said tablet to do to printed reading materials what iTunes …
Apple Tablet Aiming To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and MagazinesSteve Jobs said people don't read any more. But Apple is talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a "new device." And they're not just going for e-books and mags. They're aiming to redefine print.
CBS- One of the 10 Big Companies -Bankruptcy- No Information - No Viewers + No SponsorsThis article is about Ten Big Companies veering toward Bankruptcy. CBS is one of these companies. I think it is very poignant that those who do not inform, will not get sponsored. Who wants to be misinformed, or not informed at all. Will others follow? I think so, do you?
Obama Open To Helping Newspapers, To Avoid Reporting Becoming 'All Blogosphere'from the oh-really? dept. Mathew Ingram points us to the news that President Obama has indicated that he's at least open to hearing bills that would help bailout the newspaper industry because he's afraid of reporting becoming "all blogosphere":
Online News May Soon Cost MoneySAN FRANCISCO -- With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking print editions.
Bailout For Newspapers ???? When is Congress going stop shredding the Constitution? I predicted this way back when all this bailout bull @!$%# started this would be in the works, I was wrong I thought he would go for the airlines before the newspapers.
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