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The nation's second-largest newspaper is planning to lay off 130 business and newsroom employees as part of an overhaul to de-emphasize the print edition and works to reach more readers and advertisers on mobile devices.

With newspapers across the country struggling to pay expenses, pay-walls are going up at more and more of their web sites. These pay-walls require users to pay for online content that they've become accustomed to getting for free. As old institutions buckle down and attempt to restrict access, new...

CNN has cut ties with the Associated Press, a wire service that has been a backbone of American news media for more than a century. The move exemplifies how the news industry and its traditional business models are changing in the ever-accelerating information age.

Is The New York Times shooting itself in the foot with its plans to charge online readers? I raised the question Monday, asking whether the pay system would reduce bloggers' links to the newspaper, and now bloggers and the newspaper are weighing in.

CNN and CBS have unsuccessfully flirted with the idea of a partnership many times in the past. But now they're giving it another whirl. Could a recent fall in CNN's fortunes make it ready to commit?

A new report finds that Americans are abandoning newspapers and magazines an extraordinary rate and are increasingly turning to cable and the Internet. Between 2008 and 2009, cable and online audiences grew nearly 10% whilebut newspapers dropped over 10% and magazines nearly as much.

Is Google no longer playing nice with Old Media? The search giant has stopped hosting new stories from the Associated Press, as talks over a new licensing deal flounder. The AP reportedly wants more from the deal, while Google's move seems designed to show the AP what the loss of Google News readership would mean.

What will Sarah Palin do now? The question remained open since she quit as Alaska's governor in July, until Monday afternoon, when The New York Times uncovered one answer: She's becoming a contributor to Fox News.

It is worth remembering that there was a time not too long ago when most large newspapers and news services got their stories about the federal government directly from their own Washington, D.C., bureaus. Some had bureaus in New York, London and elsewhere. But the era of the foreign correspondent...

Can Microsoft (MSFT) gain much needed market share for its Bing search engine by signing a deal with News Corp. (NWS) and other news publishers to remove their web pages from the Google (GOOG) search index and give Bing an exclusive on links to The Wall Street Journal? That's the kernel of an...