Washington News Bureaus Are Shrinking - NYTimes.com

The times may be news-rich, but newspapers are cash-poor, facing their direst financial straits since the Depression. Racing to cut costs as they lose revenue, most have decided that their future lies in local news, not national or international events.

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Reporter's Death Inspires a Seminar and a Lawsuit - washingtonpost.com

The murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan prompted a Georgetown University professor to start a class wherein the students work to complete the article Pearl was reporting on when he died and investigate his murder.

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To grow into the future media need a group hug

"...where many big-media sites need to move. It is how news sites can get hyperlocal in their coverage or international in their reach, how vertical interest sites can grow deeper without the cost and risk of doing it all themselves..."

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Newspapers: Bulky Blueprints for the Future

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Media consolidation silences diverse voices - Obama and Kerry speak out

Obama and Kerry write: "In recent years, we have witnessed unprecedented consolidation in our traditional media outlets. Large mergers and corporate deals have reduced the number of voices and viewpoints in the media marketplace."

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Critics Turn Out To Protest Media Consolidation

Even though the media landscape has changed radically since the last time the Federal Communications Commission tried to alter its media-ownership rules, a hearing at the FCC yesterday showed that the debate remains as heated as ever.

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Do bloggers enjoy the same rights as journalists—and what would those be?

hat are the rights of bloggers in an era when almost anyone may claim to qualify for a journalist's protection? What legal privilege do reporters enjoy to keep source material from government's prying eyes? And did federal prosecutors abuse their authority by bringing charges for …

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With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking

On the Web, anyone can be a mapmaker. With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography, drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound and videos.

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Monks Are Silenced, and for Now, Internet Is, Too

It was about as simple and uncomplicated as shooting demonstrators in the streets. Embarrassed by smuggled video and photographs that showed their people rising up against them, the generals who run Myanmar simply switched off the Internet....

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MSNBC to Acquire a Chattier News Site... Newsvine!

As a social news source, Newsvine directly reflects the interests of its audience by encouraging users to write articles, comment on other articles and post links to relevant sites.

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The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet

The nation's largest telephone companies have a new business plan, and if it comes to pass you may one day discover that Yahoo suddenly responds much faster to your inquiries, overriding your affinity for Google. Or that Amazon's Web site seems sluggish compared with eBay's.

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Net Neutrality Back in Spotlight

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FCC Says Cable Companies Have Grown Too Big

The FCC has made a decision that the cable industry has gotten too powerful. As a result, they are expected to announce stiff new regulation to curb the growth of major cable companies and open the market to more independent programmers.

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Google Takes Step on Video Copyrights

Google is seeking to put an end to the copyright wars over online video. On Monday, the company unveiled a long-anticipated system that, if effective, would allow media companies to prevent their clips from being uploaded to YouTube without permission.

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Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web

Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.

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Veoh vs. Copyright Holders: Is a War Brewing?

Internet video service Veoh has gone to a southern California federal district court to seek protection from a possible lawsuit from Universal Music Group, according to Reuters.

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The Trivial Pursuit - New York Times

Mr. Gore, who won an Academy Award for his documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," and an Emmy for his cable TV network, Current, knows better than anyone else how toxic and downright idiotic presidential politics has become.

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Blacks Mull Call for 10,000 to Curb Violence

Philadelphia, the US city with the highest homicide rate, is taking an interesting grassroots approach to crime management in hopes of bringing those statistics down.

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A PC for peasant farmers? China targets digital divide.

What a neat concept! China is trying to bridge it's urban-rural digital divide by offering robust, cheap PCs to peasant farmers.

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Ethanol's Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price - New York Times

"The ethanol boom of recent years — which spurred a frenzy of distillery construction, record corn prices, rising food prices and hopes of a new future for rural America — may be fading."

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The story of the Shield Star Wars program: Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone reporter Jack Hitt gets an exclusive to view the world's most expensive weapons system in history.

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Was John Paul II Euthanized?

An Italian medical professor is claiming that Pope John Paul II was euthanized. If the claims are true, it presents a major slap in the face of the Catholic Church, which believes in doing everything in power to preserve life until the end.

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Profiting from the Pummeling

The 'General Betray Us' ad by MoveOn.org and the consequent backlash by the White House, was apparently profitable for everyone involved in the debate.

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Back of the Pack - On the Campaign Trail with Mike Gravel

A great video following life on the campaign trail with Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel.

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