A federal bankruptcy judge late Monday approved the sale of Alaska’s biggest daily newspaper to third-generation Alaskan siblings who are new to the newspaper industry but whose family members have a long history of public and private service in the 49th state.
Read moreThe photographer for a small Ohio news organization who employees say was shot by a sheriff’s deputy who mistook his camera for a weapon is uninterested in seeing the officer punished.
Read moreNewspaper publisher Tronc has acquired the Daily News, a storied New York tabloid newspaper that won a Pulitzer Prize this year but has been buffeted by the changing media environment.
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Alaska’s biggest daily newspaper can keep printing after a federal bankruptcy judge late Monday approved a $1 million so the Alaska Dispatch News and its creditors can proceed with Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Read moreCartoonist Ted Rall faced another setback in his defamation and wrongful termination lawsuit against the LA Times, when a Superior Court judge granted Tribune Media’s motion to strike his complaint under the First Amendment.
Read moreAlaska Dispatch News publisher filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Saturday in the wake of last week’s eviction notice from the cable company renting space for the paper’s only working printing press.
Read moreThe Daily Mail is branching into television, hiring ESPN football analyst Jesse Palmer to host a daily U.S. syndicated show starting next month.
Read moreThe fight between traditional newspapers, cable TV and internet took a serious turn Friday in Anchorage, where a cable company filed eviction papers on Alaska’s biggest newspaper, the Alaska Dispatch News.
Read moreA prominent antiquities dealer sued the Wall Street Journal for reporting that he sold artifacts looted by the Islamic State group, an accusation that he calls an “outrageous libel.”
Read moreEnding efforts by Chicago Tribune to acquire its cross-town rival, the struggling Chicago Sun-Times was sold Wednesday to an investment group led by a former city alderman and a coalition of unions.
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Lawyers representing Alice Rogoff, the publisher of Alaska Dispatch News, and Anton Hopfinger, the paper’s former editor, returned to Anchorage Superior Court on Tuesday to argue motions that will set the basis for how a $1 million contract dispute will play out when it goes to trial.
Read moreA California appeals court agreed Friday that a class of San Diego Union Tribune newspaper carriers are employees and not independent contractors, and are therefore entitled to minimum and overtime wages, but found a $3.1 million restitution award must be reduced to reflect the paper’s reimbursement of work-related expenses.
Read moreAs Americans continue to shift toward consumption of digital news, the traditional newspaper industry continues to experience revenue declines and a general erosion of its subscriber base.
Read moreThe Albuquerque Journal did not defame an Albuquerque police reserve officer it described as a “wannabe cop,” the New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled.
Read moreUnless another buyer materializes in the next two weeks, the Chicago Tribune’s parent company will buy the Chicago Sun-Times, placing both of the city’s major papers under the same ownership.
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With less than two weeks left in the semester, journalism students at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas discovered Monday their adviser had been suspended, four classes were immediately canceled and the student newspaper was ordered to dump its last edition of the school year.
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A newspaper in the Mexican border city of Juarez announced Sunday that it is shutting down because the rampant, unpunished killings of journalists in the country have made it too dangerous to go on.
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