2005-2014

MADRID (Reuters) - Spies and soldiers, politically engaged and deeply partisan -- such is the way a new exhibition portrays some of the intriguing band of foreign correspondents who risked their lives to report on the Spanish Civil War. It is well known that novelists like George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos wrote in defence of Spain's Republican government troops as they battled...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times will offer buyouts to up to 150 employees to offset declining circulation and advertising in the latest effort by parent company Tribune Co. (TRB.N: Quote, Profile , Research) to cut jobs ahead of its plan to go private in an $8.2 billion deal. The buyouts would equal 3 percent to 5 percent of workers at the Times, Tribune's largest newspaper, publisher...

BANGOR, Maine --A Bangor Daily News reporter has been suspended for five days for including material from another newspaper in a story she wrote without crediting the source. Sharon Mack included passages from a story published April 4 in the Christian Science Monitor in her bylined story three days later about the use of bees in Maine farming, said Michael Dowd, managing editor of the Bangor...

April 23 (Bloomberg) -- The newspaper business is bad and getting worse, billionaire Warren Buffett said last month. He was talking about U.S. papers, which are among the investments of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the holding company he heads. Shares of publishers outside the U.S. are another story. Newspaper stocks overseas rose 25 percent on average in the past year, according to data compiled by...

On the wall of Lionel Barber's office is a curiosity that says a lot about the Financial Times editor. It is a note written by him to the late Hunter S Thompson after they had spent an evening together chewing the fat. It lists the running mates for two former US presidents, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, whose names neither could recall during their discussions the previous night. Thompson...

The controversy over NBC's decision to broadcast the thoughts of Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-hui illustrates the daily dilemmas faced by news journalists. Most of their British counterparts would find it difficult to justify withholding the tapes. 'We are not censors,' says John Ryley, Sky's head of news, succinctly summing up the consensus on this side of the Atlantic. But once the controversy...

There are an awful lot of women's magazines out there. Sometimes it seems like there can't be another inch of space left on newsagents' shelves for the weight of publications full of tales of mums who ran off with their daughters' boyfriends, sex-op secrets of the stars and miracle one-day diets - yet new ones keep on coming. Forty-seven per cent of the total magazine market in the UK is taken up...

Liberian information minister Laurence Bropleh continues to make a stalwart but surprising defence of his government’s targeting of the Monrovia Independent newspaper for publishing an obscene photograph of another cabinet minister. Disgraced Minister of Presidential Affairs Willis Knuckles tendered his resignation on February 25 after a picture of him in a sex act with two young girls surfaced on...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Hearst Corp. has been paying The Seattle Times $1 million a year since 1999 for the right to buy the newspaper first should it be put up for sale, according to documents released Tuesday. Hearst owns The Times' smaller rival, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and has been feuding with The Times since 2003, when The Times tried to dissolve a joint operating agreement between the...

T'PURAM: The CBI sleuths from New Delhi, who are on a mission to find the culprits in the Sister Abhaya murder case, visited this website's newspaper office at Sasthamangalam here on Friday morning for an interaction with the journalist who broke the recent report over the tampering of the chemical examination result in the case. CI Subhash Guddu and SI Vinod from the CBI special unit, New Delhi...