The Los Angeles Times will leave its downtown headquarters later this summer for a temporary location in El Segundo southwest of LA, the newspaper’s incoming owner said at an employee meeting on Friday.
Read moreThe Supreme Court deferred a ruling Tuesday on whether to take up an appeal by unsecured creditors of the bankrupt Tribune Co.
Read moreAttorneys for the Hartford Courant argued Thursday before the Connecticut Supreme Court that it should be allowed access to journals and other belongings of the gunman who massacred 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
Read moreA heavy equipment operator claims Cleveland is enforcing a media ban that prevents her and other workers from speaking out about sexually harassing behavior and dangerous conditions at a city plant, including the dumping of toxic waste and a raccoon infestation.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union of Texas asked a state judicial ethics commission Tuesday to reprimand a judge for saying he does not trust young black men to show up for court because he believes they don’t respect the criminal justice system.
Read moreA Latvian man pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in a “scareware” hacking scheme that targeted visitors to the website of Minnesota’s largest newspaper and tried to trick them into buying a fake antivirus program.
Read moreA businessman linked to an attendee of a notorious 2016 meeting held by President Donald Trump’s son in Trump Tower sued British newspaper The Guardian, claiming it published an article falsely stating he also has connections to the former Soviet Union’s KGB intelligence agency.
Read moreBritish actor Hugh Grant has settled his phone-hacking damages claim against Mirror Group Newspapers.
Read moreThe Current, a 50-year-old weekly covering the D.C. suburbs with a circulation of 60,000 declared bankruptcy, with less than $50,000 in assets and $1 million to $10 million in debts.
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Former writers and editors of the alternative newspaper LA Weekly who were fired en masse last month want advertisers to boycott their former employer, a move they hope will force the publication’s new owners to sell.
Read moreEmbattled Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore insisted Monday he has run a clean campaign, the same day the Washington Post reported that a conservative group tried to push a false story to discredit the paper’s work on sexual-misconduct allegations against Moore.
Read moreAlabama’s largest newspaper group stood by its reporting Wednesday despite Senate candidate Roy Moore’s statement that he has “taken steps to begin a civil action for defamation” in response to numerous women’s allegations that he’d tried to date them or initiate sexual encounters when he was in his 30s and they were teenagers.
Read moreVying for investigation records connected to last month’s massacre of Las Vegas concertgoers, news organizations told a federal judge that there is no need for secrecy when deceased shooter Stephen Paddock is believed to have acted alone.
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Quoting Aesop’s fable “The Ass and the Purchaser,” a judge for the Michigan Court of Appeals wrote that “a man is known by the company he keeps” in a decision finding that the Detroit News did not defame a radio host by calling him a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
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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.
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