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Ohio's Supreme Court says its state's cops don't need radar to pull speeders over -- they just need to believe the drivers are speeding. But giving police that authority invites abuses, so two Ohio legislators are trying to pass a law that overturns the decision.

The recession has already claimed its share of media properties, but, while the economy may or may not have touched bottom already, nobody who knows anything about anything thinks the closures are about to stop. The only question is: Who's next? As a veteran of two high-profile media casualties...

For its current issue, Newsweek tried something new, bringing in Stephen Colbert as its first-ever guest editor. But for the issue's cover, it resorted to something not so new, borrowing a visual joke from the long-defunct satire magazine Spy:

Hi, folks. Prepare to see a lot of me around these parts. Starting June 1, I'll be part of the DailyFinance team, writing about the media industry, a beat I've covered for most of the past decade as a reporter and blogger. I'll be looking at the big, existential questions facing media companies:...