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 moreA 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 moreThe 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 moreThe 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 moreThe 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 moreThe 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 moreA 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 morePushing 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 moreThe New York tabloid Daily News will cut half of its newsroom staff, saying it wants to focus more on digital news.
Read moreAbout 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 moreA Denver Post investigation published this week sheds light on thousands of Colorado court cases suppressed by district judges over the last five years.
Read moreA 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 moreA 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 moreA 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 moreTesla 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.
Read moreFormer Denver Post reporters and editors have launched a new publication after the newspaper’s hedge fund owner rocked the newsroom with layoffs.
Read moreThe Los Angeles Times will have a new owner starting on Monday as biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong finalizes his $500 million purchase, and the newspaper will start a new chapter this summer by moving out of its downtown headquarters.
Read morePrint newspaper subscriptions and staff sizes continue to tumble, and even their web traffic fell a bit in 2017, the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday.
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