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Senior British journalist charged over bribes
The Sun newspaper's executive editor was charged Thursday with authorizing bribes to a government official, making him one of most senior journalists ...
Nigeria reporters face criminal charges for story
Prosecutors filed criminal charges Tuesday against two journalists at a Nigerian newspaper over a story they published on alleged plans by the ...
Online nonprofit InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer
In a sign of a rapidly changing media world, a relatively unknown New York-based online nonprofit news site joined some of the country's most ...
Denver Post wins Pulitzer for coverage of massacre
The Denver Post won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its coverage of the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., while The New York Times captured four ...
Ex-AP writer McArthur, who covered Vietnam, dies
Born in the Deep South and caught up in the romance of journalism at an early age, George McArthur was not one to let social taboos or politics ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
$338M NJ Powerball winner says he'll help family
The winner of a $338 million Powerball jackpot told several media outlets Monday that his first priority will be helping his family. Pedro Quezada, ...
Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis dies at 85
Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday. He was 85. Lewis worked ...
A guide to Britain's new media regulation regime
The British government is setting up a new media watchdog to tame the country's scandal-tainted press. The move comes after a phone hacking scandal ...
Judge: Aggregator of AP news can't have free ride
A federal judge concluded that an Internet news clipping service essentially resold stories from The Associated Press, saying in a decision released ...
UK: Senior editor at The Sun charged over payoffs
The deputy editor at The Sun tabloid in Britain has been charged with authorizing thousands of pounds in illegal payoffs to government officials, ...
Mali newspaper editor charged with crime
A media rights group says that a Malian newspaper editor, who was arrested two weeks ago after publishing a letter criticizing the salary of the ...
Newspapers worried about new UK media regulation
Britain's politicians have finally struck a deal to regulate their country's press. Whether the press will allow itself to be regulated is another ...
Myanmar holds off on press law following criticism
Myanmar journalists just getting used to their new era of freedom howled when the government announced plans for a media law that could lock many old ...
Journalism study shows impact of cutbacks in news
Years of newsroom cutbacks have had a demonstrable impact on the quality of digital, newspaper and television news and in how consumers view that ...
Rowling to UK govt: Don't let down hacking victims
Celebrities including J.K. Rowling and Hugh Grant accused the British government on Sunday of letting down the victims of media intrusion and urged ...