The rare search of a newsroom has uncorked a debate in Marion, Kan.: What is a newspaper’s role, anyway?
Category: Newspapers
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Kansas Newspaper Is Talk of Town, and Not Just for Getting Raided
The rare search of a newsroom has uncorked a debate in Marion, Kan.: What is a newspaper’s role, anyway?
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Robert H. Giles, Newspaper Editor and Nieman Curator, Dies at 90
He headed the journalism program at Harvard after overseeing Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Kent State shootings and corruption in Michigan.
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Authorities to Return Items Seized in Kansas Newspaper Raid
The raid of the newspaper, The Marion County Record, has drawn condemnation from First Amendment advocates.
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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.