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THEY say that everything is bigger in America, and this was certainly true at the Los Angeles Times last week. Declining newspaper sales might be raising tensions between journalists and corporate owners all over the place, but they have reached unprecedented levels on LA’s most famous newspaper. Having refused to make new staff cuts on the back of over 200 redundancies over the past five years...

If these were normal times, the American view of the conflict in Lebanon might look something like the street scenes that have electrified the suburbs of Detroit for the past four weeks. In Dearborn, home to the Ford Motor Co. and the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, up to 1,000 people have turned out day after day to express their outrage at the Israeli military campaign...

A lot has changed for women in the past 100 years. Corsets have gone out of style, glass ceilings have shattered and voting rights are a reality. But when it comes to sports journalism, women are still lagging behind. n June, the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida released the results of a diversity study commissioned by the Associated Press Sports...

NEW YORK: With many newspapers already limited in their foreign coverage by the ongoing Iraq War, and some budget cutbacks, the current MIddle East conflict -- which escalated over the weekend with new attacks on both sides and numerous civilian casualties -- has thrown a new wrench of staffing and news space demands. Although most foreign editors say they have been able to keep their Iraq...

A Florida newspaper has increased readership 20 percent without spending a dime on printing or distribution. How? By offering the entire paper online for free. Publisher Craig Swill wanted to get more people reading the Boca Raton (Fla.) News — and its ads — yet avoid any increase in the printing and distribution costs which already squeeze newspapers. He found a solution in the PDF sent by the...

July 14, 2006 | While Melanie Morgan debates with Ann Coulter about whether the executive editor of the New York Times should be killed by gas chamber or firing squad, the institutional forces behind the San Francisco radio host deserve to share in the national spotlight now focused on her. Morgan's brand of authoritarian extremism is brought to her radio listeners every day courtesy of the Disney...

July 13, 2006: Two local journalism professors have produced guidebooks on Canadian journalism ethics that offer some hope to scribes toiling in the trenches of big media and the audiences enduring the daily drivel they produce. Stephen Ward's The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond and Nick Russell's Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism (2nd edition)...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Times is cutting about 50 editorial staff, or 10 percent of the total, by merging its print and online news desks and streamlining its production set-up, the newspaper said on Tuesday. The paper has launched a voluntary redundancy programme and said it would enter a 30-day consultation with the National Union of Journalists "to keep redundancies to a minimum." The...

At a rally outside the New York Times's office last night, protesters called on the government to "prosecute" the newspaper for its recent publication of government security secrets. Led by a radio talk show host and Caucus for America president, Rabbi Aryeh Spero, almost 100 people gathered on 43rd Street to voice their outrage at the Times's decision to publish "national security secrets...

WASHINGTON - The red camera light blinked on, and news anchor Jennifer Gray began speaking: "In Iraq ..." Her face and words flashed via satellite from an Alexandria studio around the world. But, Gray isn't a TV reporter on NBC, CNN or FOX. She's a Navy petty officer who anchors a news show on the Pentagon Channel. Gray and her colleagues report to audiences as close as the barracks at Quantico...