News on Media

The struggling newspaper industry should not seek government help but must convince readers and online aggregators to pay for news on the Web, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday. Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post website accused Murdoch and other US newspaper publishers meanwhile of being in "digital denial" and said they needed to "stop whining." The News Corp. chairman and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the popular news and opinion site were speaking at a two-day workshop here on journalism in the Internet age hosted by the Federal Trade ...

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that the struggling newspaper industry should not seek government help but must convince readers to pay for news online. "The prospect of the US government becoming directly involved in commercial journalism ought to be chilling to anyone who cares about free speech," Murdoch said at a workshop on journalism in the Internet age hosted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Warning against the "government using its heavy hand to overregulate or to subsidize us," he said newspapers "need to a better job ...

Gannett Co. is cutting 26 newsroom jobs at its flagship USA Today newspaper and 11 positions at USA Weekend magazine. The cuts were revealed Tuesday in company memos. It was not immediately clear what percentage of the work force the positions represent. USA Today and other Gannett newspapers have already tried to cut costs with layoffs and furloughs over the past year. USA Today has been hit especially hard by the advertising slump and a decline ...