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NEW YORK -- Stephen Ferry, the photojournalist who was arrested for impersonating a firefighter on September 11, has surrendered rights to his film as part of a deal reached last [...]

'Harder hit than any other news operation in the country,' Dow Jones' flagship online site did more than stay afloat When Hurricane Andrew ripped through Dade County in Florida nine [...]

Online village green isn't all that KOZ.com sale a sign of the times As newspapers re-evaluate every aspect of their new-media efforts, the once-lauded concept of community-publishing is taking a [...]

Koz.com, the Durham, N.C.-based company that provided dozens of online newspapers with community publishing and e-commerce tools, has sold its assets to Community Software Acquisition Corp., Morrisville, N.C. CSAC paid [...]

The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and Minneapolis Star Tribune have partnered with eBay, the auction Web site, to give eBay users the option of placing classified ads in the newspapers. [...]

With a smaller staff, New York Times Digital (NYTD) continues to scale back its Web efforts. The new-media unit of the New York Times Co. says it will move NYToday.com [...]

With nary a triskaidekaphobe in sight, SeattleP-I.com, the Seattle Post- Intelligencer's Web site, chose Friday the 13th to add an afternoon edition that includes news, sports, stock-market, and weather updates, [...]

About 50% of the U.S.-based staff of iSyndicate, the online content syndicator headquartered in San Francisco, has been laid off, the company reported last week. Roughly 85 people were let [...]

Something isn't computing here. When Robert Decherd, CEO of Belo, addressed attendees at E&P's Interactive Newspapers Conference, he declared, 'This is a time to stay the course,' and cited MySanAntonio.com, [...]

Ads moving beyond the banner When CNET introduced a new online ad unit recently, New York Times Digital (NYTD) wasted no time in endorsing the new format. The larger and [...]

Chief cites need to streamline After several weeks of industry rumors that PowerAdz.com was burning through its cash, the Troy, N.Y.-based company laid off 30% of its staff in the [...]

Jakob Nielsen's ratings: Newspaper sites need to help readers find their way Newspaper Web sites have a lot to learn about 'user experience,' according to Jakob Nielsen, whose biweekly Alertbox [...]

KnightRidder.com joined the great dot-com downsizing of 2000 last week when it issued dozens of pink slips. The new-media division of the San Jose, Calif.-based newspaper giant said the layoffs [...]

Strapped for cash, St. Louis-based SportsHuddle.com laid off 29 employees last month and more cuts are coming soon, said company President and CEO Matt Coen. More than 170 newspapers have [...]

AdStar.com acts to cut burn rate AdStar.com reported last week that it laid off 11 people, including three senior officers in product development, business development, and operations. The Marina del [...]

Visitors looking last week for the historical Mercury Center (the San Jose Mercury News was one of the first newspapers online) were automatically redirected to BayArea.com. The change is part [...]

The struggling Space.com got a boost from earthbound Gannett Co. Inc. last week, with Gannett getting an undisclosed equity stake in the news and entertainment site. Space.com gets marketing in [...]

Kozmo.com, the online shopping site that promises immediate delivery, has added 'USA Today' to its list of products that arrive in less than an hour after ordering them online. Customers [...]

Paul Camp promises orderly shutdown Surprising the newspaper industry, Flywheel Media, Thomson's interactive division, is closing its doors for business, CEO Paul Camp said last week. During the next 90 [...]

In a little less than two weeks, the man behind the newspaper industry's largest concerted effort to corner the online recruitment market is packing up and moving on. Two years [...]

The Arizona Republic is the first newspaper to use the electronic ink technology that came out of the MIT Media Lab several years ago. E Ink Corp., based in Cambridge, [...]

Combo of dynamic duo boasts more than 600 media affiliates Community and commerce: two of the biggest buzzwords for newspaper Web sites. Now, two popular service providers in these respective [...]

Even The New York Times got a little mixed up last week as it tried to cover dot-coms becoming dot-gones. The Times gave widely noted play -- front page of [...]

Shareholders of The Citizens' Voice in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 16 overwhelmingly approved the paper's sale to The Scranton (Pa.) Times. The deal is expected to take effect May 1. No [...]

A 67-year-old ex-convict who works for a legendary Southside Chicago political leader surrendered to police last Tuesday on charges he shot at the publisher of Journal News Group, a chain [...]

Negotiations resumed last week between the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News and the San Jose Newspaper Guild, a 800-member union that voted April 16 to give its bargaining committee the [...]

Feeling that their voice has been lost amid the youthcentric slant of the gay press, the not-for-profit organization Pride Senior Network has created a special-interest newspaper for older gay men [...]

Times Mirror reported first-quarter earnings per share that handily beat estimates, led by strong revenue improvement at the Los Angeles Times. Overall newspaper ad revenue rose 8.5%, led by retail [...]

Canadian authorities have arrested a 19-year-old, who goes by the cyberhandle 'Mafiaboy,' believed to be responsible for the February denial-of-service attacks on Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon.com, Excite, E*trade, and CNN.com. The [...]

Aren't radio stations already doing this? The Maine Center for the Blind and Visually is planning to read the state's newspapers each day on a sound-only Maine Public Broadcasting TV [...]

The Associated Press reported that two of its journalists were injured while covering the protests of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meeting in Washington. Also, a United Press [...]

Anyone seeking a model of media convergence could do worse than the News Center in Tampa, Fla. The Associated Press says the joint operation of Media General's Tampa Tribune, Tampa [...]

Traditional media's Web sites are much more likely to exploit the Web's unique capabilities than Internet portals, reports the Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ) in a study released April 9. [...]

In nationwide telephone poll of 1,014 households commissioned by the Round Table Group, a Chicago-based consortium of business-school professors, 18- to 24-year olds would rather get their news online than [...]

ONE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER EDITOR MAY HAVE A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM, THOUGH: AN INTERACTIVE WEB PAGE WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON BREWING BEER NEW ORLEANS - Many publishers rightly fear that today's [...]

Times Co. Digital's NYToday.com becomes an early adopter Tapping into a new market, NYToday.com recently partnered with the UrbanBaby Network to create a co-branded site for parents who are expecting [...]

A new Media Lab device for those who can't stand stills from video When President Clinton testified before a grand jury in 1998 it was Page One, above-the-fold news that [...]

Similar url leads would-be visitors to national lesbian and gay journalists association site to porn page People trying to reach the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) online might [...]

CRITIC KURTZ CITES POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Washingtonpost.News week Interactive just became a lot more interactive. In forging an alliance with the Web's top online news site and one of [...]

Online papers collecting data from kids now know the rx A sigh of relief was how Susan Mernit responded last week to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) final ruling on [...]

It's happened. Auction behemoth eBay is lumbering into your neighborhood. After becoming almost a household name auctioning off everything from antique cars to Beanie Babies to a human kidney (this [...]

Two Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporters have been ordered to jail by a Fulton County, Ga., judge for not revealing the sources used in a story on Richard Jewell, who was first [...]

Internet Tradeline Inc. (ITI) announced May 18 deals with Advance Internet, a subsidiary of Advance Publications, and Nando Media, the new media division of The McClatchy Co. ITI's Point & [...]

USAToday.com journalist Kirk Spitzer is in the field to cover the Kosovo crisis as of April 19. As assistant news editor for USAToday.com, Spitzer will be one of the first [...]

The Kosovo Crisis is not the only hot spot on the globe where journalists are risking their lives in their attempts to provide breaking news. A five-nation panel of military [...]

On the ground in Yugoslavia, an Italian journalist was harassed and expelled, while a German television journalist is reportedly missing. According to The Associated Press, Italian TV journalist Lucia Annunziata [...]

In Washington, the Pentagon once again warned Western news agencies that the safety of journalists in Belgrade cannot be guaranteed. According to The Associated Press, Kenneth Bacon, spokesman for defense [...]

Not three days after Clinton stood before the American Society of Newspaper Editors Conference in San Francisco and promised a more open flow of NATO information, did London's Daily Telegraph [...]

On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal launched a $15 million consumer advertising campaign, its first in 10 years, entitled 'Adventures in Capitalism.' Outdoor advertising will be the campaign's initial focus [...]

Amidst a gathering of more than 2,000 people, a major critic of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was buried April 14, after being shot in the head and the back by [...]