2005-2014

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- One day after Time Inc. gave notice to 105 unlucky employees, including some of its highest-ranking veteran executives, people inside the company -- and at sibling units within Time Warner -- are asking what’s next? In addition to saving on personnel costs -- a savings Time Inc. would not disclose yesterday -- the company clearly plans a run at ramping up its own brand, no...

After a 13-year run, The Los Angeles Times is shutting its national edition next week, officials said yesterday. The separate national edition has been an endangered species for years, kept alive as a way to give the newspaper's reporting a physical presence in Washington and New York. But the edition was costly and the paper's owner, the Tribune Company, had been planning to shut it earlier this...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- When The Rendon Group was hired to help Afghan President Hamid Karzai with media relations in early 2004, few thought it was a bad idea. Though Rendon's $1.4million bill seemed high for Afghanistan, the U.S. government was paying. Within seven months, however, Karzai was ready to get rid of Rendon. So was Zalmay Khalilzad, then the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and now the...

China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia have been the world's leading jailers of journalists in 2005, together accounting for two-thirds of the 125 editors, writers, and photojournalists imprisoned around the world, according to a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The United States, which is holding journalists in detention centres in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, rose to

BEIRUT: "We shall not be silenced; paying with your life is part of a journalist's job description," Gibran Tueni once said. "Anywhere in the Middle East, and Lebanon is no exception, a journalist has one of the most dangerous jobs, where messengers like Samir Kassir are targeted and get killed," the late journalist and MP once told The Daily Star, sensing the Lebanese media would fall victim to...

Damascus - Syria's official newspapers maintained silence on Tuesday about the second report on the United Nations investigation into the assassination of Lebanese ex-premier Rafik Hariri delivered Monday in New York, which accuses Damascus of ongoing failure to cooperate with the probe. 'The report (delivered Monday) has nothing new,' was the single- sentence reaction in Al-Thawra government...

USA Today will be merging its newspaper and online newsrooms, USA Today President and Publisher Craig Moon and USATODAY.com Senior Vice President and Publisher Jeff Webber announced on Tuesday. USA TODAY Editor Ken Paulson announced that USATODAY.com Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Kinsey Wilson had been promoted to Executive Editor of USA TODAY, joining current Executive Editor John Hillkirk...

NEW YORK, NY -- (OfficialWire) -- 12/13/05 -- WikiPedia.org: you can find links to it everywhere. Online forums, scholarly journals, blogs, high school research papers. WikiPedia is an "open source" encyclopedia with the philosophy of democratic contribution. This encyclopedia differs from other more established encyclopedias by its editors; WikiPedia is composed of anonymous people contributing...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Time Inc. today slashed 105 employees from its rolls, including some of its highest longtime publishing executives. Presidents, exec VPs Among those losing their jobs are Jack Haire, exec VP in charge of corporate ad sales; Richard Atkinson, exec VP in charge of the news and information group; Eileen Naughton, president, Time magazine; David Kieselstein, president, the...

SIXTY-FOUR years ago, the governments of Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Congress replied in kind later that same afternoon. The government had been quietly preparing for modern war, but once it arrived few understood the demands it would make on American society. At some point on that day, President Roosevelt told press adviser Stephen Early that the government needed to...