CNN Wire Service Takes On AP, Luring AP's Disgruntled Newspaper Customers
CNN, in the afterglow of an election season of record ratings for cable news, is elbowing in on a new line of business: catering to financially strain...
CNN, in the afterglow of an election season of record ratings for cable news, is elbowing in on a new line of business: catering to financially strain...
Reuters | Robert MacMillan | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Associated Press plans to cut up to 10 percent of its workforce in 2009, according to sources at the news service, as it cope...
AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 11.05.2008 | Style
VIENNA, Austria — She was a stranger, and she kissed me. Just for being an American. It happened on the bus on my way to work Wednesday morning...
New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media
The Associated Press announced on Thursday that it will offer new price discounts to newspapers and remove restrictions on the articles they receive, ...
Ari Melber | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics
Note the brazen absence of any facts or quotes supporting Loven's "nervousness" storyline, even though it contradicts Obama's own statement about how long the meeting had been in the works.
Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media
Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major ...
AP | TED BRIDIS | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media
WASHINGTON -- Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alask...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.02.2008 | Home
The AP asks the rather provocative question of, after hurricane Gustav, whether 'New Orleans is worth it?': Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane ...
Editor and Publisher | Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.29.2008 | Media
In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news host, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann laced into the Associated Press's Charles ...
Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Buried in a 50-page report titled "Misleading Information From The Battlefield" on Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch is this nugget: "Karl Rove exchange...
Politico | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press's Washington bureau, as "a mentor." Johnson, though, rega...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, while enjoying a meal at a Pittsburgh sandwich shop, John McCain made a joke about how maybe he could kill Iranians with cigarettes, becaus...
Guardian | Jeff Jarvis | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
The Associated Press didn't know what it stepped in when it sent a lawyer's letter to the blog Drudge Retort (a Drudge Report parody) demanding that i...
CNET | Harrison Hoffman | Posted 06.29.2008 | Media
NBC will not be offering live online feeds of any events that will be broadcast on TV. The ones broadcast on TV will, of course, include the most popu...
Wall Street Journal | Russell Adams | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
As the economic pressure on newspapers intensifies, the Associated Press, a 162-year-old newsgathering cooperative for the industry, is beginning to f...
Robert Brustein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment
I thought I had been summoned into Huntington's presence to discuss artistic matters. Instead, he remarked upon the title of the magazine and asked me what I thought of "Theatre."
AP | MICHAEL MELIA | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Huntington Hartford, the deep-pocketed A&P grocery heir who burned through most of a $100 million fortune in a series of...
Beverly Davis | Posted 05.17.2008 | Home
The "welcome back" rally scheduled for Tuesday in Des Moines is a thank you to the white working class voters who catapulted him to the front of the race and gave Clinton her first taste of defeat.
AP | Posted 04.14.2008 | Media
WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell, two media figures who led major newspaper acquisitions in recent months, are among four new members jo...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media
The release of Hillary Clinton's White House schedules hit the rewind button in lots of newsrooms last week as reporters jumped at the chance to talk about White House sex and and pretend it was news.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.22.2008 | Media
If getting married really did make people healthier, and did so in a way that no other close relationship or meaningful life experiences could approximate, that would be a story worth reporting.
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 03.04.2008 | Entertainment
Yesterday I saw the same headline in a lot of newspapers. About Iraq? Pakistan? About the March 4 showdown between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? No. About the trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie.
Karen Russell | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON - A photo appearing on the internet of Senator Barack Obama's Chrysler 300 without a giant, yellow, magnetic "I Support The Troops!" ribbon...
Al Giordano | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
Why does the AP have to screw up by trying - inaccurately - to make a story about superdelegates about race?
AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 02.01.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — The board of directors of The Associated Press gave final approval to a new pricing plan Thursday that will overhaul how the news coo...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
New York Times | Tim Arango and Richard Perez Pena | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media