German news agency dapd closes
An insolvency administrator has ordered the German news agency dapd to shut operations immediately after it failed to find investors. A statement from ...

Cookie Monster, Elmo get in Times Square trouble
Cookie Monster stands accused of shoving a 2-year-old. Super Mario was charged with groping a woman. And Elmo was booked for berating tourists with ...

A country music upset in the Nielsen ratings
There's a change in the pecking order for country music's competing awards shows, at least for this season. The Academy of Country Music Awards on ...
Dutch reporter victim of citizen arrest in Egypt
A Dutch journalist working in Egypt said she was released Tuesday from nearly 12 hours in police custody after an Egyptian vigilante arrested her and ...

Russian journalist brain-damaged after attack dies
Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who suffered brain damage and lost a leg after a brutal assault that followed his campaign against a highway ...
Newspaper revenue fell 2 pct to $38.6B in 2012
The newspaper industry's revenue declined at its slowest pace in six years, as publishers turned to new businesses and raised more money from online ...

Fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer dies at 81
Lilly Pulitzer hosted parties in her bare feet and wasn't afraid to get a little messy — just as long as she looked good and had fun, too. In the late ...
Griner, McGraw are AP player and coach of the year
Brittney Griner has had no equal in her stellar career at Baylor. Now she's part of a very select group. The 6-foot-8 senior star earned The ...

School faces new questions in Colorado massacre
New questions confronted the University of Colorado, Denver on Friday amid disclosures that a psychiatrist who treated theater shooting suspect James ...

Tax haven data leak names names, raises questions
It's a data leak involving tens of thousands of offshore bank accounts, naming dozens of prominent figures around the world. And new details are being ...

Ebert showed willingness to adapt to new media
Roger Ebert started out as an old-school newspaper man, the kind that has all but vanished: a fierce competitor who spent the day trying to scoop the ...

Obama: Calif. attorney general is 'best-looking'
President Barack Obama praised California's attorney general for more than her smarts and toughness at a Democratic Party event. The president also ...

Ebert, nation's best-known film critic, dies at 70
Roger Ebert had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood. With a twist of his wrist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic rendered decisions that influenced ...

Miami's Larranaga, Michigan's Burke win AP awards
Jim Larranaga made his mark as a basketball coach years ago at places like Bowling Green and George Mason. This season, with his Miami Hurricanes ...

Philadelphia gets ready to play 'Pong' on building
Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of "Pong" — on the side of a skyscraper. The classic Atari video game will be re-created later ...

Springer doing a show on tabloid newspapers
Jerry Springer is getting another television show. The Investigation Discovery network said Thursday that Springer will be host of "Tabloid," a new ...

Egypt steps up campaign against TV satirist
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday stepped up a campaign against a popular TV comedian accused of insulting the president, threatening to revoke the ...

Gunmen raid 4 newspaper offices in Baghdad
Gunmen suspected of being Shiite militiamen burst into the offices of four independent newspapers in Baghdad, smashing their equipment, stabbing and ...
AP, ABC win journalism awards
Julie Pace of The Associated Press and Terry Moran of ABC News have won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure.

CBS News anchor Rebecca Jarvis heads to ABC
CBS News anchor Rebecca Jarvis is moving to ABC News. ABC says Jarvis will join the network later this month as its chief business and economics ...

CBS: No regrets on Ware injury coverage
The chairman of CBS Sports had no regrets about banning further replays of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware's gruesome broken leg and says if ...

Privately owned daily newspapers return to Myanmar
The newspaper industry might be shrinking in the rest of the world but it expanded Monday in Myanmar when privately run daily newspapers hit ...

Palestinian leader clamps down on critics
Mahmoud Abbas' government in the West Bank is getting tougher with critics, interrogating, prosecuting and even jailing several journalists and ...

AP opens full news bureau in Myanmar
The Associated Press on Saturday became the first international news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two ...

Teague, one of NYC's 1st black TV newsmen, dies
Bob Teague, a former news anchor, reporter and producer and one of New York City's first black television journalists, has died. He was 84.