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The Associated Press said Thursday it laid off 90 news employees worldwide this week to reach its goal of cutting annual payroll costs by 10 percent.
The deaths of three runners who collapsed during a 13.1-mile half marathon appear to have been an aberration, but at least six runners have died while competing in such events in the last two months.
Bloggers and Twitter users thwarted a legal attempt Tuesday to stop Britain's media from reporting the questions posed by a lawmaker in a parliamentary debate, spotlighting the power of new media to influence public policy.
Hundreds of Hong Kong journalists, lawmakers and residents marched Sunday to protest the alleged police beatings of three reporters covering recent unrest in western China, and demanded a government investigation.
The Irish Times newspaper won a long-running legal battle Friday to protect the identity of a key source who provided documents showing that former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was under investigation for corruption.
The Associated Press is proposing that publishers attach descriptive tags to news articles online in hopes of taming the free-for-all of news and information on the Web and generating more traffic for established media brands.
A look at some of Sarah Palin's postings on Twitter since she announced she was stepping down as Alaska governor:
Sarah Palin is communicating through social networking sites after her surprise announcement last week that she will resign as Alaska governor.
More than 100 Yemeni journalists held demonstrations Thursday to protest the government's decision to suspend publication of eight newspapers over the past three days that authorities said helped foment unrest in the country's south.
Yemen has suspended seven publications — including the nation's most popular daily on Tuesday — in effort to stifle reporting on an unprecedented wave of deadly rioting sweeping the south.
Brazil's Supreme Court has struck down a press censorship law enacted during a nearly quarter-century military dictatorship.
Struggling simply to survive as readership and advertising drop, the Detroit Free Press celebrated winning a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its reporting of a sex scandal that brought down the city's mayor.
A prominent watchdog group has called on Kazakhstan's government to stop pursuing independent reporters with libel suits.
Quebecor Inc., one of Canada's biggest media companies, said Wednesday it is pulling out of The Canadian Press news cooperative next year.
A U.S. photographer won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition Friday with an image of a police officer searching a debris-strewn home in Cleveland, Ohio to ensure evicted residents had left after a mortgage foreclosure.
As the U.S. was accused of human rights abuses, a State Department official advised the military to delay sending Guantanamo Bay prisoners home in order to avoid more bad publicity.
Chrysler LLC Vice Chairman Jim Press expects the automaker to be viable by springtime after a restructuring, the introduction of new and improved vehicles, loosened credit and sweetened buyer incentives.
Vietnam will grant an early release to a journalist jailed for his aggressive coverage of a government corruption scandal, an official said Friday.
A U.S.-based human rights group denounced the recent firing of two Vietnamese newspaper editors, saying Friday that the incident signaled a clampdown by the communist government on the state-controlled media.
It's written by a man many consider a confident and charismatic religious prophet, but Joseph Smith's journal immediately betrays an inkling of self-doubt: His first sentence is scratched out.
Reports that Chrysler LLC is being shopped for sale by its owners are just speculation, a top Chrysler executive said Wednesday night.
Chrysler LLC said Friday it will make another round of early retirement and buyout offers to factory workers in Michigan to reduce the number who are on indefinite layoff due to slumping sales.
The beating of two Japanese journalists by police in western China drew an official apology Tuesday, but Beijing also set new obstacles for news outlets wanting to report from Tiananmen Square in the latest sign of trouble for reporters covering the Olympics.
Veteran news anchor Tom Brokaw has agreed to moderate NBC's "Meet the Press" through the November election to fill the vacancy created by the death of Tim Russert.
BBC News : Iran doctor 'committed suicide'Iran's police chief says a doctor who died at a detention centre shut in July after the deaths of several opposition supporters committed suicide.
Obama Has a Job for Dana Perino. Really. From the Department of Unlikely Events: George W. Bush's press secretary has been asked to serve in the Obama administration. Well, sort of.
Sounds ominous, but the media is actually just being banned from covering her book signing on a military base. Although Palin will not be giving a speech when she visits Ft.
Some claim US president Barack Obama's bow to the emperor of Japan was a sign of deference inappropriate to a president, that it is against US protocol, and that as leader of the free world he should bow to no one. One blog site said the president's bow was treasonous.
Inside the Beltway - Washington TimesPALIN OBSESSION. PALIN OBSESSION. PALIN OBSESSION.
Does "net neutrality" violate the First Amendment?An interesting perspective, from The Goldwater Institute and Americans for Tax Reform.
Inside the Beltway - Washington TimesTea Party express comes to Capitol Hill with a cast of thousands.
Inside the Beltway - Washington Timesjon Voight's back in the political shoving match with a Tea Party
Inside the Beltway - Washington TimesRush Limbaugh scares everybody to death.
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.
Law abiding and lawless[Manila, Philippines]A conference among lawyers and journalists from several Asian countries including the Philippines is concluding in Cebu.
Memory lapse: Politico asks, "What if Bush had done" things he actually did In support of his dubious argument that the press is treating President Obama more favorably than President Bush, Politico's Josh Gerstein falsely suggested that unlike David Axelrod, Karl Rove was never involved in national security meetings.
30 reasons why Fox News is not legit Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, with one scribe even claiming that the White House's public critique of the network was "dangerous to press freedom," and why the press refuses to acknowledge what's so obvious about th …
From The Political Commentator (http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com) MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009 All The News Considered Fit To Dispense According To The White House That Is
The Obama-Fox press war can't hold a flame to the one FDR waged in the 1930s. The White House fires a few pop-guns in the direction of Fox News Channel, and suddenly everybody from Louis Menand in The New Yorker to Michael Scherer in Time to Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post is heralding the Obama administration's declaration of war on Rupert Murd …
Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the PressThere was never a single moment when White House staff decided the major media outlets were falling down on the job. There were instead several such moments
100,000 protest for press freedom in RomeThe masses gathered today in Rome to protest for the freedom of the press! "Accusations of an anti-Berlusconi bias have spiked since Rai 2 twice invited to its studios a call girl who claims to have accepted money to spend the night with the prime minister.
Inside the Beltway - Washington TimesOne kazillion jillion krillion in debt. Yeah, that's America.
According to the English dictionary the word "Holocaust" can be used to mean any disaster involving many deaths, even though, after WWII it has often, and quite correctly, been used in reference to the extermination of 6 million Jews in Nazi Germany.
Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two-Decade LowJust 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate.
Bloggers de-journa-listed by potential Senate ruleIn order to have your sources protected you must be a salaried employee or contractor for a commercial publishing operation. Otherwise, you're merely a blogger.
Inside the Beltway Washington Times Sept. 22Tea parties creating a third political party? Plus - why are women unhappy? Well, maybe they're not.
Inside the Beltway - Washington Timespress accuracy the worst in two decades the pollsters say.
Gettin it Right; Getting it Wrong: A look at recent news coverage in VermontA recent decision by Associated Press to publish a picture of a badly mutilated U.S. Marine lying on the ground dying with his legs severed after being struck by a rocket-propelled grenade is incomprehensible.
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