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To most English speakers, ''platform'' is a noun. But among news organizations, it is quickly becoming a verb. For publishers, the new meaning of ''to platform'' is something akin to: [...]

Byline: LESLIE KAUFMAN The New York Times and The Washington Post announced on Thursday that they had teamed up with Mozilla to develop a new platform that will allow them [...]

Elise Jordan curled her petite frame into the sofa in her sunny apartment in TriBeCa and kept her voice steady as she explained why she pushed to publish the unfinished [...]

Jeff Kinney, author of the best-selling children's series ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid,'' said Friday morning that he is opening a bookstore in his home town of Plainville, Mass. Mr. [...]

Kirkus Reviews, the literary journal best known for its pre-publication reviews of forthcoming books, said on Wednesday evening that it was creating three new literary prizes -- for fiction, nonfiction [...]

The technology writers Kara Swisher and Walter Mossberg, founders of the conference and media business All Things Digital, appear to have found a new home. NBCUniversal is close to signing […]

In the food-obsessed Bay Area, The San Francisco Chronicle's food section has been as much of a city institution as the cable car, and to many San Franciscans, more useful. [...]

Vox Media, a company with three strong digital brands, including the technology site The Verge, is adding to its portfolio. The company plans to announce on Monday that it is [...]

Two years after Thomson Reuters announced an ambitious effort to reach out to news consumers directly through a program called Next, the company has decided to change direction and work [...]

BuzzFeed, the swiftly growing social news site, has decided it is time to move beyond top 10 lists, animal videos and political coverage. It is going foreign. The site recently [...]

David Axelrod, the political strategist behind the rise of President Obama, has signed with Penguin Press to write a memoir, the publisher said Tuesday morning. Release is slated for fall [...]

12:17 p.m. | Updated Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state and possible presidential candidate, will publish a new book in 2014 about American foreign policy, her publisher, Simon [...]

After revelations that Jane Goodall's forthcoming book ''Seeds of Hope'' contains passages copied from various Web sites, the Hachette Book Group has decided to delay its publication. The book was [...]

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is writing a book that will examine the creation of democracy at home and abroad, drawing upon stories from her career and personal life, [...]

The Cat wore a hat. Everyone knows that. But so did Sam-I am, the mooing Mr. Brown and the fat fish from ''One Fish, Two Fish'' -- a tiny yellow [...]

Thomas Keneally, the best-selling author of 'Schindler's List,' will be releasing a new book with a new publisher this summer, Atria Books announced Tuesday. Atria Books, a division of Simon [...]

Looking to broaden its appeal to the public and increase its impact on sales, The National Book Foundation, which presents The National Book Awards, announced Tuesday that it would increase [...]

'The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history,' begins a new book written by two top Google executives, which aims to explain how this experiment will play out [...]

Simon & Schuster is testing the water in the booming self-publishing market. The publishing company announced Tuesday that it was teaming up with Author Solutions, based in Bloomington, Ind., to [...]

When 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City in 2002, the case became a media sensation. It also became the subject of three different books, [...]

Major book publishers and libraries have been sparring for months over acceptable terms for making e-books available for lending. From time to time, they find some common ground. The Penguin [...]

The historian David McCullough is working on a book about social and cultural implications of early aviation beginning with the Wright Brothers and ending with Lindbergh's Paris landing, according to [...]

When the publishing elite gathers for the National Book Awards dinner Wednesday evening in Manhattan, there will be signs everywhere of the aspirations to turn this once-dowdy event into a [...]

Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that [...]

The State Department defended its decision to award a sensitive environmental impact study on the Keystone XL pipeline to a company that had previous ties to TransCanada, the company seeking [...]

A Canadian company has been threatening to confiscate private land from South Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico, and is already suing many who have refused to allow the Keystone [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED As the surging waters of the Mississippi pass downstream, they leave behind flooded towns and inundated lives and carry forward a brew of farm chemicals and waste that [...]

The federal Department of Agriculture unveiled a new plan on Thursday to manage the national forest system that government officials said would give them more flexibility in responding to modern [...]

State employees began an aerial wolf hunt on the Yukon border on Tuesday in what officials describe as an effort to preserve caribou for shooting by hunters. Officials at the [...]

Massachusetts state officials on Friday announced new energy efficiency standards for utilities that aim to be the most ambitious in the nation. The plan calls for a statewide reduction of [...]

Marc Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about, and he brags about his confrontations with those who do. For example, Mr. Morano said he once spotted […]

Because of budget cuts, the state will curtail its substance abuse programs for ex-convicts living in New York City and its suburbs by month's end, despite research indicating that such […]

The Spitzer administration announced on Friday a plan to close a medium-security prison and three minimum-security camps upstate, citing the declining crime and prison population across the state. Officials said […]

The Bloomberg administration, frustrated by the federal government's Great Society method of determining who is poor, is developing its own measure, which city officials say will offer a more modern […]

The Bloomberg administration unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to move children through foster care more swiftly, with fewer moves within the system and more limited use of institutional care. Thousands […]

With the number of homeless families at a record high halfway into Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's five-year plan to reduce the homeless population by two-thirds, city officials are acknowledging missteps […]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg began to flesh out his promise to reduce the number of homeless people on the streets and in New York's shelters, committing the city yesterday to […]

In an effort to reduce reliance on the municipal shelter system, New York City is seeking to increase resources to prevent homelessness and to eliminate longstanding practices that may encourage […]

Since the nation's welfare system was overhauled in 1996, New York City has received hundreds of millions of additional state and federal dollars intended to help women leave welfare for […]

When New Jersey officials unveiled their dizzyingly ambitious plan to overhaul the state's child welfare system yesterday, their vision won admiration from many of those who had most eagerly awaited […]

The city is putting together a plan to end chronic homelessness in the next 10 years, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday. Though he praised the city's extensive shelter system […]

In New York, judges in divorce cases will soon be told to direct couples with children to attend parent education programs, the office of Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye said […]

The $44.5 billion best-case budget proposal that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled on Tuesday calls for thousands of layoffs and cuts in services. This is a look at how it […]