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When Margaret Carlson picks up the newspaper from her stoop every morning, she basically knows what's going to be inside. "I think it's yesterday's newspaper, because I've seen everything on my laptop already," says the Washington-based syndicated columnist and CNN analyst. That's a reality newspapers face each day because of technology, and it has radically changed the way news is presented to...

Oct. 31, 2005 issue - Judith Miller wanted a restful weekend. Days after her newspaper published a blistering account of her role in the Valerie Plame leak case, The New York Times reporter went home to tony Sag Harbor, N.Y. On the agenda: walks on the beach and playing with her dog. But as she opened up an e-mail last Friday afternoon from Times editor Bill Keller to the paper's employees, all...

According to a well-known anecdote, anthropologists studying "primitives" who supposedly held certain superstitious beliefs (that they descend from a fish or from a bird, for example) asked them directly whether they "really" believed such things. They answered: "Of course not -- we 're not stupid! But I was told that some of our ancestors actually did believe that." In short, they transferred...

When the death toll of Americans in Iraq reached 1,000 back in September 2004, The Omaha World-Herald ran a respectful article in a single column down the right side of its front page. "A grisly milestone reached in Iraq," read the headline. Last week, by contrast, when the roster of American dead reached 2,000, The World-Herald displayed that stark number in large type at the center of its front...

IT'S OFFICIAL: 2005 WILL BE the newspaper industry's worst year since the last ad industry recession. And things aren't looking much better for next year either, according to a top Wall Street firm's report on newspaper publishing. "Sadly, 2005 is shaping up as the industry's worst year from a revenue growth perspective since the recession impacted 2001-2002 period," says the report from Goldman...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Entries from Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users, may soon be available in print for readers in the developing world, founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday. He said content from the Web site may also be burned onto CDs and DVDs so computer users in places like Africa, who lack access to high-speed Internet, could consult parts of...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Yahoo extended its push into original content today by adding new content produced by Dennis Publishing’s The Week, in a new twist for the Internet behemoth. The Week will produce "The Best of Today’s Business," a daily roundup of print and online business news that will appear on the Yahoo Finance page. A first for Yahoo Yahoo has recently hired individual writers and...

It's a fair bet that, given a political scandal of a certain scale, the usual blogs - DailyKos, AmericaBlog, Instapundit and Wonkette - will draw traffic and links. Make it a media scandal, like Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" fiasco or Jayson Blair's fabrications at The New York Times, and other sites might bubble to the top: Romenesko or perhaps Gawker for a snideways view of things. And why not? As...

We can't say for certain which of his many tribulations was on Rupert Murdoch's mind when he convened his lieutenants for a September offsite in Carmel, Calif. It may have been the son who got away–Lachlan, who had abruptly quit his post as News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer and moved to Australia, leaving family feud, which saw Murdoch's second wife fiercely guarding her children's...

After its disastrous marriage with Time Warner, America Online (AOL) became the ugly duckling of the online world. Five years down the line, the circle has come full again, and the belle now has a string of suitors lining up. The big three of the new media – Google, Yahoo and Microsoft – are falling head over heels in trying to woo AOL. NET PROFITEER: Google chairman Eric Schmidt When Time Warner...