Those of us who've read and/or worked at newspapers for many (many!) years understood the news wouldn't be good. Average daily circulation dropped 10.6 percent in the April-September period from the same six-month span in 2008.
What do you get when you cross cable news, social media, and a balloon? Less than you think.
A group of technologists, entrepreneurs and innovators will try to imagine what's ahead.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt joined WBUR’s Tom Ashbrook at MIT on Thursday in a discussion about the next Internet. Watch the video of their conversation.
All four Democratic candidates running to fill Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat are now advertising on television. Look at some of the ads.
The sprint to the special election to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is only a little over a month away, which means candidates are trying to get their messages out to voters on the airwaves before the Dec. 8 primaries.
Just a few months after securing major concessions from union workers, the publisher of the Boston Globe says he’s retiring.
The Wall Street Journal is shutting its Boston bureau and eliminating nine jobs, marking the second round of cuts at the newspaper this year.
Artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the famous Barack Obama “HOPE” poster, admitted Friday that he didn’t use the Associated Press photo he originally claimed his work was based on but instead used a picture the news organization had claimed was his source.
The New York Times Co. has decided not to sell the Boston Globe, saying the Globe’s finances had turned around. While some employees are relieved that ownership will not change, the future of the Boston Globe is still fragile.
In a memo, The New York Times Co. said the paper had “significantly improved its financial footing” and was no longer up for sale. Many employees said they felt a sense of relief, but not much surprise.
David Letterman, days after revealing on air that he’d been sexually involved with women from his television program, apologized to his wife on Monday’s “Late Show,” saying she had been “horribly hurt by my behavior” and stating flat-out those affairs “are in the past.”
A CBS newsman who prosecutors said was desperate and deep in debt was charged Friday with trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that forced the late night comic to acknowledge having sex with some of the women who have worked for him.
With less than three months until the special primary election for U.S. Senate, the candidates are increasingly turning to new approaches to get out their messages. More often, they are utilizing all forms of media.
A CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, forcing the late-night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with female employees.
Even as the New York Times says the Boston Globe’s improved finances are making a sale less urgent, there are still two interested bidders with very different approaches to journalism.
WGBH, which bills itself as NPR’s “Arts and Culture” station, is acquiring WCRB, one of the country’s few commercial classical radio stations. Media commentator Dan Kennedy analyzes what the move could mean for the station and the public radio market.
British commandos freed a New York Times reporter in an early Wednesday raid on a Taliban hide-out in northern Afghanistan. The journalist’s Afghan translator and one of the troops were killed in the rescue, officials said.
