Gang arrested for food truck extortion
Los Angeles police said they arrested 20 reputed members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang for the alleged extortion of food-truck operators at construction sites. The Los Angeles Police Department's...
View ArticleWashington Post paywall goes up this summer
After surveying readers to determine their willingness to pay for online news content, The Washington Post announced that it would put up a paywall this summer, The Washington Business Journal reports....
View ArticleBritish press bristles at new regulator
David Cameron urged the British press to quickly set up a new press regulator created in an agreement arising from the phone-hacking scandal. Under the deal announced Monday, the newspaper industry...
View ArticleBombing in bus park kills 60 in Nigeria
More than 60 people were killed in a suicide bombing in Kano state while a teacher and two pupils died in an attack on a Borno school, Nigerian officials said. In the Kano incident Monday, bombers...
View ArticleFormer teacher admits to mistreating kids
A former Toronto teacher said he admits to physically mistreating students by dragging them into the hallway and hanging them upside down by their feet. Thomas Adrian Foster appeared before an Ontario...
View ArticleNigeria Some hostages may still be alive
Some of the foreigners kidnapped and held hostage by Nigerian terrorists may still be alive despite reports they were killed, the country's president ...
View ArticleRupert Murdochs U.K. Papers Criticize Press Regulation Deal
, on Tuesday criticized an all-party deal unveiled Monday that would establish a new press regulator with significant powers. The independent regulator will have the right to impose fines, demand...
View ArticleTwitter and Telegraph hacks no longer tweethearts | Media Monkey
, where hard-pressed hacks have apparently been commandeered onto Twitter and told to update their followers regularly with pithy missives. Forget the deadlines, which look decidedly old-school in a...
View ArticleDavid Cameron insists plans for post-Leveson Royal Charter for press...
In the face of hostility from Britain's largest newspaper groups, David Cameron insisted today that cross-party plans for a press regulator would "work and ...
View ArticleFirst Issue of New Albany Times Union Newspaper Debuts
View Photo Frank A. Bennack, Jr., chief executive officer of Hearst Corporation, presses the button for the inaugural press run of the new press at the Albany Times Union on Thursday, March 14, 2013 in...
View ArticleMali newspaper editor charged with crime
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- A media rights group says that a Malian newspaper editor, who was arrested two weeks ago after publishing a letter criticizing the salary of the nation's coup leader, has been...
View ArticleVideo Washington Post to construct paywall
Stocks opened higher after some positive news on housing, the free ride is ending for online readers of the Washington Post, and Chase suffered what they called an "internal problem" when customers...
View ArticleStop the Press UK papers react to new regulation
Some UK newspapers are resisting the new Royal Charter for independent regulation of the press. Newspapers across the country are split in reaction to the all-party deal forged yesterday. The Daily...
View ArticleHow Suicide Bomber Rammed Car-bomb Into A Fully Loaded Passenger Bus In...
By Lawal Danjuma Adamu, Kano A suicide bomber targeting luxury buses full of passengers detonated a car bomb at a busy motor park in Kano yesterday, killing dozens of people and injuring many others....
View ArticleThe Washington Post’s Paywall Will Measure The Relevance And Importance Of...
The Washington Post’s announcement yesterday that the paper will erect a paywall that charges readers who access more than 20 pieces of content per month was probably inevitable. As much as papers and...
View ArticleEditor-in-chief of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets says will accept...
– Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev said he would take on lawmaker Andrei Isayev in public debate if the latter apologized to the ...
View ArticleBritish newspapers rail against regulation
UK newspapers have slammed a new press regulation scheme agreed to at the 11th hour, warning there will be political interference in the ...
View ArticleMissouri judge blocks newspapers request for documents about police chief...
Health and durability, recent decline in performance are chief among them. But Fisher and line coach Boudreau could boost career of Rams' new ...
View ArticleSuspect In Murder Of Elderly San Francisco Newspaper Vendor Arrested
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -Police have arrested the suspect in the January murder of a well-known, elderly newspaper vendor in San Francisco. San Francisco police in the Tenderloin district recognized...
View ArticleThe New York Times Eviscerates A Soft New Biography Of Fox News President...
Fox News president released Tuesday. Kakutani slammed biographer Zav Chafets' "soft-focused" look at Ailes. Chafets also wrote a 2010 biography ...
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