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Trump-bashing, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist arrested on child porn charges
January 16, 2025 | 1:48pmIn a search of Darrin Bell's home, detectives found 134 videos of child pornography linked to an account owned and controlled by the 49-year-old married father of four as well...
Hundreds of Washington Post staffers beg owner Jeff Bezos to intervene at troubled paper: 'We need a clear vision'
January 15, 2025 | 1:18pmMore than 400 Washington Post journalists sent an angry letter on Wednesday to owner Jeff Bezos, pleading with him to intervene on the paper's direction to restore the "trust that...
Washington Post traffic craters, loses $100M amid identity crisis as talent, readers flee: reports
January 13, 2025 | 12:47pmThe left-leaning newspaper lost $100 million last year after four years of plunging website traffic as it struggles with a talent exodus, falling revenue and flailing readership amid an identity...
Washington Post media critic blasts his own paper for keeping mum over spiking anti-Bezos cartoon
January 7, 2025 | 12:33pmErik Wemple didn't pull any punches during a live chat session with readers when asked about the controversial decision to scrap the cartoon, which led Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes...
AP, 9 other news organizations amend stories about Chinese 'dissident' accused of being con man
December 20, 2024 | 12:19pmNPR learned that Wang Jingyu is actually a crook who stole $17,000 from a Chinese exile.
Biden calls out 'billionaires' buying newspapers, laments changing media landscape
December 19, 2024 | 7:48pmPresident Biden points to "billionaires" buying newspapers behind the rapid change in the media.
World’s oldest Sunday newspaper -- founded in 1791 -- is sold
December 18, 2024 | 1:57pmThe owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper confirmed Wednesday that it has sold The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media for an undisclosed fee.
LA Times owner tells editorial board to 'take a break from writing about Trump': report
December 17, 2024 | 9:24amStaffers at the Los Angeles Times say the newspaper's billionaire owner is demanding that the editorial board "take a break from writing about" President-elect Donald Trump, according to a report....
Students at Columbia University launch anti-Israel 'Columbia Intifada' newspaper: 'Outrageous'
December 6, 2024 | 5:59pmAn anti-Israel student club at Columbia University freely distributed a new hateful newspaper on campus Friday — peddling antagonistic rhetoric calling Jews “colonists” and “subjugators.”
LA Times owner rips ex-CNN star Oliver Darcy as 'so-called reporter' during 'combative' interview about pro-Trump commentator
November 28, 2024 | 11:59amLast month, LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked his editorial board from publishing an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
'Ugly' NYC sidewalk newspaper boxes will get much-needed makeover under new City Council bill
November 18, 2024 | 4:22pmRead all about it! Newspaper boxes, often broken, littered and sprawling with graffiti along sidewalks across the Big Apple, will soon be yesterday’s news -- thanks to a new City...
Google News executive resigns as tensions with publishers mount: report
November 11, 2024 | 3:18pmA key executive from Google’s news division has reportedly resigned from his post – a departure that occurred during a period of rising tensions with publishers who have accused the...
The world reacts to Trump's historic 2024 win in newspaper front pages
November 6, 2024 | 5:30pmNewspaper front pages from around the globe capture the world’s reaction to Donald Trump's presidential election victory.
New Jersey Star-Ledger announces the end of its print edition
October 30, 2024 | 1:49pmNew Jersey's biggest newspaper, the Star-Ledger, said Wednesday that it will stop publishing its print edition in February amid rising costs and slumping demand for print.
Two more LA Times editors quit after owner calls off Kamala Harris endorsement
October 25, 2024 | 11:46amTwo more top editors at the Los Angeles Times resigned after Patrick Soon-Shiong stopped the publication’s expected endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
'Dracula' creator Bram Stoker's new short story was lost for 134 years
October 20, 2024 | 4:24pmAmateur historian Brian Cleary was paging through Stoker's works at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin, the gothic novelist's hometown, when he made the discovery.
Pollster admits the obvious: Dems don't want Kamala Harris taking tough questions
August 26, 2024 | 6:20pmDemocrats are now saying the quiet part out loud: They want Kamala Harris to keep hiding from the press.
Calif. Dem defends 'disastrous' $250M Google deal with newspapers: 'We want something, or nothing?'
August 23, 2024 | 1:02pmAssemblymember Buffy Wicks led negotiations on the nearly $250 million deal, which allowed Google and other Big Tech firms to escape comprehensive legislation that could have forced them to share...
California, Google's paltry $250M million deal to fund newsroom blasted as 'disastrous' by critics
August 22, 2024 | 1:41pmBilled as a “first-in-the-nation partnership” to help cash-strapped publishers and save jobs, the deal allows Google and other Big Tech firms to escape legislation aimed at fixing the problem –...
Kamala Harris doctored headlines on Google present ‘significant ethical concern’: media analyst
August 14, 2024 | 5:58pmRich Hanley, Quinnipiac University associate professor of journalism emeritus, called the marketing move "troubling" and "exploitative."