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AYLESBURY, England • Five months after a minibus smash on the eastern front of the Sri Lankan civil war broke Reuters journalist Peter Apps’s neck and left him completely paralysed, the condition has long since lost its novelty value. “Since September, I have been unable to perform most of life’s most basic functions. I need to be fed, washed, dressed and turned frequently in bed to avoid pressure...

He was known as the father of modern newspaper design. He helped redesign thousands of newspapers, wrote 27 journalism books and won numerous awards. But toward the end of his life, Edmund Arnold took simple pleasure in creating birthday cards for his fellow residents of Brandon Oaks Retirement Community. Arnold died Friday at Lewis-Gale Medical Center. He was 93. Arnold began his newspaper career...

Blogger Josh Wolf now holds the troubling record as the longest-jailed journalist for contempt of court in recent American history. Wolf, who is refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena for his testimony and video outtakes, has spent 169 days in a federal prison in California as of February 6. He has now spent more time behind bars than author/journalist Vanessa Leggett, who spent 168 days in...

NEW YORK: Two weeks after Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea outlined a bold new strategy to focus on the newspaper's Web site, the paper has named Meredith Artley executive editor of LATimes.com, according to an article on the site. Artley, who had been the International Herald Tribune's director of digital development for the past four years, will move from Paris to Los Angeles to begin work...

Charles E. Scripps, who oversaw the family media company that bears his name as it expanded from newspapers into cable television, has died in Naples, Fla. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Scripps died of natural causes at his home at age 87. Scripps was grandson of E.W. Scripps Co., founder Edward W. Scripps. He was chairman of the company's board from 1953 to 1994. The Enquirer said his first...

London: Britain's first Readers' Editor, Ian Mayes, is set to hand over charge as the independent internal ombudsman of The Guardian, a post he has held for nearly a decade. Taking over from him in March will be Siobhain Butterworth, now the newspaper's legal director. Speaking about the significance of an ombudsman, the challenges associated with the office and the changing face of news, Mr...

AUSTIN, Texas — Witty best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, a Texas liberal who died after a long battle with breast cancer, left legions of admirers, even among the politicians she regularly skewered. President Bush, referred to as "Shrub" in Ivins' writings, said in a statement issued after her death Wednesday evening that Ivins was a Texas original who was loved by her readers and many...

Former Los Angeles Times Editor Dean Baquet was named today Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, positioning him as a leader at one of America's top newspapers but dashing the hopes of some of his onetime employees that he might return to the Los Angeles paper if it changed owners. New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller joined Baquet in the Washington newsroom this morning to...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Star editor Dean Baquet is returning to The New York Times as Washington bureau chief, effective March 5. The move is not quite a surprise but remains a big score for the Times, which was sorry to see Mr. Baquet leave seven years ago when he became managing editor at the Los Angeles Times. But Mr. Baquet, who eventually became the paper's top editor, recently became...

Ryszard Kapuscinski, a globe-trotting journalist from Poland whose writing, often tinged with magical realism, brought him critical acclaim and a wide international readership, died Tuesday in Warsaw. He was 74. His death, at a hospital, was reported by PAP, the Polish news agency for which he had worked. No cause was given, but he was known to have had cancer. Mr. Kapuscinski spent some four...