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The Tribune Company is expected to announce staffing reductions as early as today at its flagship Chicago Tribune as well as its largest-circulation newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, as revenue in the newspaper industry declines. While no official announcement had been made about the cuts, reports in both newspapers late last week, citing informants they did not identify, said they were imminent...

New York, April 23, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is very concerned about the effective closure of the Educated Media Foundation in Moscow last week. The foundation, the successor to Internews Russia, has been shut down since last Wednesday, when economic police searched its premises for 11 hours, seized all financial records, and shut down the organization’s servers. At noon last...

Think of the time and cost of establishing a successful restaurant. Then picture yourself as a regular customer who goes to your favourite table, enjoys the meal, settles the bill and then spots on the way out a notice that if you'd eaten on the terrace everything would have been for free. The assumption must be that the restaurateur has gone mad. Yet that was the analogy drawn by multimedia...

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...