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It's not just mainstream news publications that are have difficulty surviving in the recession. American Media, the parent of tabloids the National Enquirer and Star, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday.

American Media, publisher of National Enquirer, plans to file for bankruptcy protection in the next two weeks, as it seeks to convert its substantial debt to equity shares in the company.

When the Pulitzer Prizes are announced later today, a lot of people will be watching to see whether the National Enquirer will win one for exposing John Edwards' affair. Here's why it won't.

The National Enquirer is gunning for a Pulitzer for its John Edwards coverage. The paper has a point -- it should be considered -- but it's not being very transparent about whether it followed journalistic principles to get its sizzling story.

After hinting it wasn't going to allow The National Enquirer to compete, the body that oversees the Pulitzer Prizes -- journalism's Oscars -- has reversed course and decided to accept the tabloid's submissions. This isn't going to please a lot of old-school journalism grandees, but it was the intellectually honest thing to do.

More than two years ago, a photographer for the National Enquirer caught Tiger Woods in a liaison in a church parking lot with a woman who was not his wife. But the magazine never published the photos, and used them to gain access to the golfer instead.