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As Florida money manager Bruce S. Sherman presses his campaign for a sale of Knight Ridder Inc., he and other principals of his firm could collect a $300 million bonanza this summer -- depending on how things shake out. Mr. Sherman, chief executive of Legg Mason Inc.'s Private Capital Management LP, shook up the newspaper industry three weeks ago with a letter to Knight Ridder's board, urging it...

Bob Woodward's journalism career has come a long way - from obscure police reporter to star of the Washington Post and one of the country's most recognizable journalists. Now the Watergate reporter whose stories brought down President Richard M. Nixon is tangled in a web of Washington journalists involved with the Bush administration's leak of Valerie Plame's secret identity as a CIA operative...

What the heck's going on? Bob Woodward - the Bob Woodward - is now making news instead of breaking it. The Washington Post's bigfoot reporter has made a cameo appearance as The Deposed in the ever-expanding Joe Wilson-Valerie Plame-Bob Novak-Scooter Libby-Judith Miller Follies written, directed and prosecuted by Pat Fitzgerald. Ziegfield never had such a cast, and now it includes an icon of...

NEW YORK Former Washington Post Ombudsman Geneva Overholser criticized her former newspaper, saying it should either sever its ties with Bob Woodward or require the legendary Watergate scribe to work solely for the paper, not pen his best-selling books on the side. "It isn't an arrangement that can really work at the Post," said Overholser, who served as ombudsman from 1995 to 1998 and later as a...

The question is: Do Americans really want to live in a world without newspapers? If you're reading this, chances are good you don't. Yet almost daily we read reports of more buyouts and budget cuts at America's papers owing to fewer readers. Newsrooms, now cubicled and corporatized, have become the morgues they so closely resemble, filled with ghosts of the departed and those who await the next ax...

Reporting on war and large-scale conflict is among the most challenging assignments reporters or photographers can face. Such experiences can have profound and lasting effects on a journalist. Dana Hull, a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News who covered the Iraq war for Knight Ridder in 2003, said: "Your war experience will just sort of live on in you, regardless of how many years it's been."...

While intimidation and wide-scale violence are making the headlines of Egypt's hottest ever parliamentary elections, the state-owned media coverage and performance in general reflected a deep state of chaos, "highly indicative" of the political atmosphere in the largest Arab country. "The state-owned largest three press corporations have revealed their true face in covering the elections. The...

NEW YORK (Business 2.0) - It can't be said anymore that blogging isn't a business. The problem now may be that blogging has too many business models to choose from. Andrew Sullivan kicked things off by announcing he would soon decamp with his proto-blog to Time.com. That was followed in short order by the launch of Open Source Media, then the confusion over whether Gawker Media had finally sold...

Brij Lal, the host of the New York based "Bharat Vani" television and radio program and the Connecticut based "Let's Talk" Comcast cable television show died in Ridgefield CT on Nov 20, 2005. He is survived by his wife Dorothy Lal and daughter and granddaughter Leslie and Andrea Abi-Karam. Lal was born in Bharatpur India on April 11, 1924. He moved to New York City in 1951 and worked for 21 years...

"Gentleman" is not a term used very often to describe a reporter, but for any of us who knew Hugh Sidey, it is likely to be the first word that comes to mind. I had dinner with him just last Sunday here in Paris and was blown away, as always, by his energy, enthusiasm and experience. Hugh started covering presidents of the United States during the Eisenhower years for Life Magazine and then for...