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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Top newspaper executives put on brave faces at a series of presentations today, emphasizing their journalism, growing Internet investments, increasing interaction with readers and new advertiser venues both online and off. The brass, speaking at the 33rd UBS Global Media Conference in New York, also said again and again that they were controlling or cutting what costs they...

CHICAGO -- Nine months after New York Times Co. bought the service for $410 million, About.com is ready to explain to advertisers the virtues of sitting alongside 57,000 topics and a library of 1.2 million pieces of content. The site, a high flier in the dot-com heyday, is almost under the radar today. But market researcher Nielsen//NetRatings said About.com drew 29 million unique users nationally...

ISTANBUL, Dec. 6--An Iranian military cargo plane filled with local journalists crashed into an apartment building in the capital city of Tehran Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 118 people, according to state news agencies. The C-130 clipped a 10-story apartment building near Mehrabad Airport, located in southwest Tehran in an area of several sprawling residential complexes. The plane had taken...

When Jimmy Wales started the online collaborative encyclopedia called Wikipedia four years ago, he had the high-minded goal of creating a sort of digital brain that one day would contain the sum of all human knowledge. In many ways, Wikipedia, which lets anonymous users add encyclopedia entries and update entries by others, continues to reach that ambitious goal. It was rated the top reference...

What if an online encyclopedia read by millions said you shot JFK? Wikipedia, an Internet encyclopedia written entirely by volunteers, claimed that a prominent journalist might have been involved in the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, a false charge that has highlighted the Achilles' heel of such do-it-yourself Web sites. The journalist, John Seigenthaler Sr., 78 -- who was an...

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. Wikipedia will now require users to register before they can create articles, Jimmy Wales, founder of the St. Petersburg, Florida-based Web site, said Monday...

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. Wikipedia will now require users to register before they can create articles, Jimmy Wales, founder of the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Web site, said Monday. People who modify existing articles...

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow city court will select a jury December 29 in the trial of three suspects charged with murdering Forbes Russia Editor Paul Klebnikov. Preliminary closed hearings began Tuesday. The suspects are Fail Satretdinov, a notary from Moscow, and two Chechen residents Musa Vakhayev and Kazbek Dukuzov. Paul Klebnikov, 41, was murdered in Moscow on July 9, 2004. He...

U.S. residents who prefer Google’s search engine tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo, and America Online, a new study has found. The longer people have been using the Internet, the more likely it is that Google will be their search engine of choice, according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. Internet users...

It takes most companies decades to build a great reputation. Google Inc. did it in seven years. The creator of the premier Internet search engine made a striking debut this year in the annual Reputation Quotient ranking, placing third among 60 of the most prominent companies in the world. Google, which took root in a Stanford University dorm room and was founded in 1998, ranked behind No. 1...