The Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune will merge their foreign reporting operations, according to a memo published on the L.A. Times‘ website. The foreign report will continue to be distributed on the L.A. Times-Washington Post News Service and to the Tribune family of papers and websites in a daily, ready-to-publish World and Nation [...]
BNET Media has an article that examines the possibility of a feud heating up between Rupert Murdoch’s relatively young FOX Business Network and CNBC.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will cut about 90 people from its full-time news staff, according to an article posted on the paper’s website on Wednesday. The AJC’s news staff will drop to about 230 full-time positions, down from about 323 currently. Staff members with five or more years with the company will be offered voluntary buyouts, [...]
The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics is seeking nominations for its 2009 Journalism Award. The society is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of corporate governance, compliance and ethics. The deadline for submissions is June 26.“This award has been established to honor and recognize a journalist who shows insight into the compliance [...]
Politico reports that former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent and editor is now the vice president of communications at the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute, with more than 400,000 individual, foundation and corporate donors. Gonzales, who once covered the stock market and edited the opinion [...]
The Society of American Business Writers and Editors have annouced the winners of this year’s Best in Business contest. The contest highlights top-notch business reporting in publications across the country in categories like breaking news, enterprise and blogs. For the complete list click here. In the overall excellence category, the awards went to the following: [...]
The Houston Chronicle, the ninth-largest newspaper in the country, will cut 12 percent of its staff to reduce costs, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal. The cost-saving could affect about 200 staffers.This is Hearst’s latest move to cut costs. The company recently closed the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and said it could also close the [...]
As news outlets sort through the latest economic news and daily developments on the government bailout front, CNBC takes a bit of a diversion with an original special that profiles the rapidly-growing $30-billion cruise industry. The financial network takes a look at how consumers are encouraged to spend their money on the newest 15-story boats [...]
Politico is reporting two reporters from The Wall Street Journal are leaving the paper to start their own company that will conduct investigations for private clients.
