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(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...

WATERBURY -- About 40 people, mostly Hispanic, protested in front of the Republican-American on Saturday over what they said were biased editorials and articles. Several people held placards and small flags of Puerto Rico during the nearly hourlong showing. "We demand an apology for racist comments in editorials and commentary," said Jeffrey Rodriguez, his voice amplified through a bull horn...

The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is often celebrated for its uniqueness: every internet user can create new articles and edit entries. Since the website's launch on January 15 2001, "Wikipedians" have contributed or edited more than three million articles in 205 different languages. The largest language areas are English, German, French, Japanese and Polish. Wikipedia's popularity is shown by the...

THE Age newspaper has axed some of its most senior staff in a massive cost-cutting purge. Voluntary redundancy payouts have been granted to 36 editorial staff – most of them long-serving reporters. On Wednesday, when successful redundancy applicants were notified, a thinly veiled swipe was taken at management in the newspaper's daily news conference. On the paper's news list, under a planned...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's Straits Times newspaper said on Saturday Chinese authorities had extended the detention of its chief correspondent in China, who was arrested earlier this year on charges of spying for Taiwan. Ching Cheong, 56, was first detained in April in Southern China, and formally arrested in August. "Because the case is complex, and with the approval of the Beijing People's...