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Sarah Palin's publisher, HarperCollins, says it has settled its lawsuit with Gawker, which posted leaked images of pages from Palin's new book, "America by Heart." Neither company disclosed details of the settlement, but HarperCollins proclaimed itself "gratified."

When Sarah Palin protested after gossip site Gawker posted pages from her upcoming book America By Heart, Gawker taunted her for her lack of knowledge about copyright law. But a federal judge has ordered Gawker to take the pages down temporarily.

Yahoo has been trying to leverage its leading position in the portal business into a comparable dominance of premium content. But it's not so easy for a technology company to build a culture of journalism -- as the defection of one of its high-profile journalists illustrates.

Charles Phillips, President of Oracle, recently had his 8-1/2-year adulterous relationship with YaVaughnie Wilkins splashed on billboards across the country.

As sexy workplaces go, Forbes ranks somewhere far below Vogue, the (fictionalized) setting of The Devil Wears Prada. But the venerable business title is the subject of a tell-all currently being written by one (or more) of the many staffers whose jobs it has eliminated over the past two years,...

Despite a long-awaited economic uptick, the media industry continues to recess, but one small part of it is still growing: Gawker Media. Nick Denton's blog archipelago is expanding its footprint today with a new video site, Gawker.tv. "The web is a visual medium," Denton says. "As a former print...

The conventional wisdom on whether and how newspapers ought to charge for their online content is changing so rapidly, some people are having trouble keeping up. One of those people is Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, who Monday repeated one of the favored fallacies of the...

Americans' trust in the press has been slipping for years. Will the disclosure that some 40 news organizations cooperated in hushing up the kidnapping of a New York Times reporter by Taliban militants damage it still further? Or will it help to reverse the trend? Both, probably. The Times revealed...

After a century of foot-dragging, newspaper publishers are suddenly aflame with the desire to innovate, giving serious consideration to just about every alternative business model that offers a sliver of a hope of preserving them from oblivion. Their latest idea: Newspapers can emulate the music...