The raid of the newspaper, The Marion County Record, has drawn condemnation from First Amendment advocates.
Category: Newspapers
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Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Wisconsin News Site Out of Business
When a north-central Wisconsin news site reported that a businessman had uttered a homophobic slur, he sued, claiming defamation. The legal bills are piling up.
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Kansas Paper Warns Police Not to Review Information on Seized Devices
Newspaper raids are rare in the United States, and the one that happened at The Marion County Record last week has drawn condemnation from First Amendment advocates.
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New York Times Revenue Rises 6.3%
The company added 180,000 new digital subscribers in the latest quarter, and now has nearly 10 million subscribers in total.
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French Journalists Call Off Strike, Failing to Block ‘Far-Right’ Editor
Reporters and editors at a leading newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, ended a 40-day walkout, but many were expected resign.
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A Decade Ago, Jeff Bezos Bought a Newspaper. Now He’s Paying Attention to It Again.
The Amazon founder, who purchased The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, has taken a more active role in the paper’s operations this year.
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Departures at Stanford and Northwestern Put Student Journalists in Spotlight
The president of Stanford and the head football coach at Northwestern left their positions after being scrutinized in campus newspapers.
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Carlo Vittorini, Publisher Who Lifted Parade Magazine, Dies at 94
He spent two decades guiding a popular newspaper Sunday supplement as its revenue and circulation grew, reaching nearly 40 million readers at one point.
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Nonprofit Buys 22 Newspapers in Maine
The National Trust for Local News will take over five of the six daily papers in the state and 17 weeklies.
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The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department
Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.
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BBC Suspends Male Staff Member After Report of Payments for Sexual Images
A report in The Sun newspaper said that an unnamed male presenter at the BBC had paid tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager in exchange for “sexually explicit photographs.”
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A Top U.K. Newspaper Explores Its Ties to Slavery, and Britain’s
In a multimedia series, The Guardian becomes the latest British institution to confront — and apologize for — its role in the slave trade.