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Philadelphia Media Network thought it had a deal after winning the papers in April, but the Teamsters have balked at the last minute. That means the Philly Inquirer and Daily News will be auctioned again, and Philadelphia Media plans to try again.

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...

The New York Times will soon charge, AT&T is ceasing unlimited data usage for iPhones and not all video will be free on Hulu. It's slowly sinking in that even online, free can't compete with paid and unlimited can't compete with tiered. It's the end of an era.

New York Times standards editor Phil Corbett advises the paper's staff not to use the word "tweet" as a verb or noun, says The Awl.

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch may think he's struck a major blow against Google with his plan to remove the articles from two of his newspapers from the search results of the Internet behemoth her hates so much -- but I think he needs to go still further.

Sony sells plenty of Readers worldwide, but it years ago gave up trying to market them in Japan. Now, just as Apple is about to launch its iPad there, Sony is defending its home turf with a new joint venture designed to solve the problem that stymied its previous e-book attempts: lack of content.

These days, Little Orphan Annie really does have a hard knock life. Annie, the comic strip, is going to have its final run on Sunday, June 13. After 86 years of being featured in newspapers around the country, the red-haired orphan will no longer have a home among Blondie, Pearls Before Swine,...

Former public relations executive Brian P. Tierney had wanted to be the top media dog in Philadelphia in the worst way, and he succeeded, taking over The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News in 2006. But now his reign has ended. Creditors won the newspapers' bankrupt parent company, Philadelphia Newspapers, in an auction Tuesday.

After technology and the worst recession in decades created enormous upheaval for the newspaper industry, the parent company of Philadelphia's leading papers is on the auction block today. Will billionaire Ron Perelman emerge as the hometown hero who saves the day?