Danish Newspaper to Cut Carbon Footprint, Drops Most Flying
One of Denmark’s main newspapers is pledging to reduce to its carbon footprint by ceasing domestic air travel and reducing international flights for assignments to a bare minimum.
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Romney Criticizes Trump’s Character in Scathing Op-Ed
Days away from joining the Senate’s Republican majority, Sen.-elect Mitt Romney broadly criticized President Donald Trump’s policies and character and argued that the president “has not risen to the mantle of the office.”
Read moreIn a Bloody Year for Journalists, Body Counts Vary
In a year when Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder inspired Time Magazine to honor fallen reporters as “The Guardians,” press freedom monitors are having trouble keeping count of the dead.
Read moreRecords Show Bid to Block Info From Epstein Exposé
After the Miami Herald ran a bombshell exposé on disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes on Wednesday, a New York federal judge released a transcript showing an effort to keep the paper from learning about another accuser’s case.
Read moreBid to Dissolve LA Weekly Passes First Legal Hurdle
A Los Angeles judge on Thursday denied a bid by alternative newspaper LA Weekly’s new owners to toss a lawsuit brought by an investor to dissolve the business over ethical violations and other blunders he says are ruining the publication.
Read moreVillage Voice, Legendary Alt-Weekly, Dead at Age 62
The seminal “alternative weekly,” the Village Voice created a new genre of U.S. journalism and publishing that endured for more than six decades before the institution finally shut down on Friday.
Read moreCalifornia Man Arrested Over Threats to Boston Globe
A California man upset about The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday for threatening to travel to the newspaper’s offices and kill journalists, whom he called the “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said.
Read moreUS Commission Rejects Alleged Harm From Canadian Newsprint
The U.S. International Trade Commission has nullified the tariffs put into place for imported newsprint by finding American producers weren’t harmed by imports from Canadian paper mills.
Read moreLA Weekly Investor Sues Co-Investors, Claiming Mismanagement
The LA Weekly, once revered as an alternative news source for Angelenos, has been mismanaged by a group of investors to the “point of no return” according to an investor who accused the owners of hurting the publication by firing most of the editorial department, drying up revenue streams and using the publication’s name to fund other ventures.
Read moreNewspapers Sue Over Electioneering Disclosure Law
The Washington Post and seven other newspapers sued Maryland Friday over the state’s implementation of a law requiring greater disclosure about the buyers of online political ads.
Read moreChicago Tribune Fights Arbitration Award for Overtime
The Chicago Tribune sued a labor union representing its 120 delivery drivers on Tuesday, claiming an arbitrator misinterpreted a collective-bargaining agreement to award the drivers 10 hours of overtime pay each time their rest period is interrupted to fill in for absent co-workers.
Read moreFlorida Newspaper Faces Contempt for School Shooter Report
A Florida newspaper is facing a possible contempt charge after publishing details that were meant to be redacted in a report about a school district’s examination of the Parkland school shooting suspect.
Read moreCalifornia Lawmaker Looks to Ease Newsprint Tariff Woes
Pushing back on the Trump administration’s trade war, a California Democrat wants to boost newspapers struggling with exploding production costs in wake of U.S. tariffs on Canadian paper companies.
Read moreNY Daily News Slashes Staff in Half
The New York tabloid Daily News will cut half of its newsroom staff, saying it wants to focus more on digital news.
Read moreLawmakers Warn Trump Tariffs Threaten Local Newspapers
About a dozen members of Congress warned Tuesday that newspapers in their home states are in danger of reducing news coverage, laying off workers or going out of business if the United States maintains recently imposed tariffs on Canadian newsprint.
Read moreDenver Post Shines Light on Suppressed Court Documents
A Denver Post investigation published this week sheds light on thousands of Colorado court cases suppressed by district judges over the last five years.
Read moreFamed Doctor Fires Back Over Critical News Report
A world-famous heart surgeon who has performed more than 1,000 transplants turned his metaphorical scalpel on an investigative report questioning the ethics of his research by filing a defamation lawsuit against ProPublica and Texas’ biggest newspaper.
Read moreDispatches From Home: The Annapolis Shooting
A little more than a month ago, the Navy Blue Angels streaked over Spa Creek in Annapolis to celebrate another commissioning week for the U.S. Naval Academy. This week, bullets smashed through the glass doors of the Capital Gazette’s newsroom, and a lone gunman killed five and gravely injured many more.
Read moreDutch PM Calls Van Attack on Newspaper Attack on Free Press
A man rammed a van into the Amsterdam headquarters of one of the Netherlands’ major national newspapers before setting the vehicle alight Tuesday, an attack that the Dutch prime minister called “a slap in the face of a free press and Dutch democracy.”
Read moreEx-Tesla Employee Accused of Stealing, Leaking Data
Tesla claims in court that a former employee illegally accessed computers at the electric car maker’s battery factory in Nevada and stole proprietary information before leaking some of it to the press.
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