Bloomberg Wins Bidding For BusinessWeek "Bloomberg LP, the global financial data and news empire created by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is the winning bidder for BusinessWeek. Terms of the offer will not be disclosed by Bloomberg and BusinessWeek parent McGraw-Hill Cos. But knowledgeable sources say that Bloomberg’s cash offer is in the [...]
Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content. So Why Doesn't He Stop Them? "Here's why: go to Google News, or type a newsy topic like "Obama wins Nobel" into Google's search box. What do you get? Headlines and very brief teasers linking to news stories from news sites. If you click on them, you [...]
Harold Evans on journalism's future "Sir Harold Evans has been voted by his colleagues as the all-time greatest British newspaper editor and has enjoyed a flourishing high-profile career in publishing in the United States. His new memoir, "My Paper Chase", looks at his early days as a reporter, his award-winning journalism at the Sunday Times [...]
Caught in a web "To be a journalist in the UK right now is a scary vocation. Cost-cutting, down-sizing and job losses are happening to many news corporations across this fair isle, so to even have a hallowed position within the industry is seen as a blessing, not a right. But as the resources dwindle, [...]
With Tribune in Bankruptcy, a Tone-Deaf Request for Bonuses "A week ago Friday, lawyers for the company, which publishes The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and owns other newspapers and television stations, were in Federal Bankruptcy Court in Delaware suggesting that the proposed 2009 bonuses were critical for the health and [...]
