2005-2014

More than anyone else in the media universe, author and Washington Post editor Bob Woodward, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, Detroit Free-Press sports columnist Mitch Albom and Newsweek magazine had a year to forget. Woodward and Miller were Pulitzer recipients. Albom is an award-winning sportswriter and a best-selling author to boot. Newsweek won the magazine industry's coveted...

PEOPLE may not be keen on consuming the fruits of journalism - ratings, circulation and polling numbers make that plain - but put them in a darkened movie house and the craft suddenly becomes riveting. Journalists play a role in a surprising number of movies that are rounding out the year and may well be around at Oscar time. "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Capote" take journalists as their chief...

The students in my advanced reporting class are among the few students at Emory University who hold a newspaper (other than the campus semi-weekly) in their hands when they read it. The only reason they do is because I require them to bring The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to class, rather than access it online, and I give them occasional pop quizzes to make sure they're reading it. They don't...

It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility. A man in Nashville has admitted that, in trying to shock a colleague with a joke, he put false information into a Wikipedia entry about John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. Brian Chase, 38...

(December 11, 2005) -- Where will it end, and when will reporters pay with their jobs? First we learn that Bob Woodward failed to tell his editor for years about his role in the Plame/CIA leak case. Today, we find out that Time reporter Viveca Novak not only kept her editors in the dark about her own involvement, but even had a two-hour chat with the special prosecutor about it well before telling...

(NewsYemen) Dec 11, Sanaa – The first Yemeni female to announce her intention to nominate herself for presidential elections questioned the neutrality of the official press, which ignored publishing anything about her candidacy. Despite being widely covered by the non-governmental press, none of the official newspapers had a story about Sumayya Raja’s plan to run for president. She couldn’t...

LONDON: When David Blunkett resigned recently from the cabinet of Prime Minister Tony Blair, for the second time in less than a year, he did not have to wait long for new employment. Within weeks he re-emerged as a columnist at The Sun, the best-selling newspaper in Britain. For The Sun, a tabloid that thrives on scandals like those that brought down Blunkett when he was home secretary and, later...

SAN FRANCISCO – When Jeffrey Zalles needed a new cashier for his coin laundry in the South of Market district, his help-wanted ad in the San Francisco Chronicle brought just four responses. So Zalles posted a notice on Craigslist, a San Francisco-based network of websites that specialize in classified advertising. His cyber-ad drew 400 applicants. Zalles found his cashier and hasn't relied on the...

At least two potential buyers made preliminary bids Friday to acquire Knight Ridder Inc., the country's second-largest newspaper chain, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Among those submitting offers by the first-round deadline were investment firm Texas Pacific Group and an alliance of private equity investors Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Blackstone Group and Providence...

For those of you who needed two hands to haul your holiday-heavy Observer in from the driveway this morning, it must sound especially odd to hear that newspapers are somewhat out of favor with Wall Street. But for more than six months, some financial analysts have shied from the stocks of publicly traded newspaper companies, unconvinced that an ink-on-paper medium can advance in the age of the...