Media Daily News Erik Sass The newspaper industry endured another round of declines in advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2010, according to the Newspaper Association of America. But it was significantly smaller than losses in previous quarters, suggesting the business may be leveling out. The stats hold out hope that the drop will stabilize or even begin to rebound in forthcoming ...Read More>>

By Howard Kurtz I can no longer file a story in our computer system without filling out a box, a small gray square that may well determine the future of serious journalism. The box is supposed to contain words and phrases that will help me reel you in. Search has become a journalistic obsession on the Web, and with good ...Read More>>

Alexandria, VA - Today, the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a national nonprofit journalism organization, announced its inaugural Advisory Council. The Franklin Center Advisory Council consists of Tucker Carlson, Co-Founder and editor-in-chief of the Daily Caller; Jack Fowler, publisher of National Review; Mark Tapscott, editorial page editor of the Washington Examiner; Ashley Landess, president of the South Carolina ...Read More>>

By: Mark Flatten In the aftermath of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Human Rights Watch produced a series of articles decrying China’s iron-fisted restrictions on the news media. Despite a provision in the Chinese constitution guaranteeing a free press, those lofty notions are mere words on paper in a society ruled by Communist despots, those reports makes clear. Chinese journalists who violate ...Read More>>

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP) Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. has retained the right to publish content from The Associated Press under a new licensing deal that thaws the sometimes-frosty relationship between the two companies. The multiyear agreement announced Monday has two key components: an undisclosed payment for the rights to AP's content, and a data-sharing arrangement aimed at helping the news ...Read More>>

Local and state governments around the nation are struggling to move out of the red. Some are cutting spending while others are laying off government employees. But one city has decided to levy a new tax on a group of individuals who voice their lives, problems, and concerns via the internet. Yes, bloggers in Philadelphia beware: you are now subject ...Read More>>

By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement. “It’s standard operating procedure” to pay bloggers for favorable coverage, ...Read More>>

State sold bonds that hid true financial condition of pension funds, according to Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More>>

Matt Sanchez FoxNews.com Like dozens of other Mexican journalists in recent years, Evaristo Ortega Zárate, who covered rival drug traffickers, criticized the inaction of local authorities and investigated politicians, simply vanished.Evaristo Ortega Zárate, a journalist in Veracruz, Mexico, was an ace at reporting details. He covered rival drug traffickers, criticized the inaction of local authorities and investigated politicians. Thanks to his efforts, ...Read More>>

NPR August 17, 2010 AOL is best known as an Internet service provider, the one that sent out all those promotional CDs back in the '90s. Now, the company is working to reinvent itself, and as part of that, it is making a big push into hyperlocal journalism with a project called Patch. On Tuesday, it launched its 100th local news site. Patch ...Read More>>