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Why is John Tesh, the multitalented composer, lifestyle guru and former host of "Entertainment Tonight," using copyrighted content to fill his advice blog? We'd ask him ourselves if he weren't so damned popular.

If you have any doubt that The Wall Street Journal is fast becoming steeped in the corporate culture of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., check these quotations. Like Fox News, it declares victory (prematurely) and expresses contempt for rivals.

A New York Times-Wall Street Journal feud heats up. Following news that the Journal accused The Times of having tried two years ago to influence the come of a journalism award, the Journal is now releasing a nearly two-year-old response from its then-editor.

Tensions between The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are on the rise as the two papers increasingly compete for the same pool of general-interest and local-market readers. A column by Times media critic David Carr accusing the Journal of slanting its news coverage in the conservative...

It's not quite The New York Times (NYT), but Rupert Murdoch could soon get control of another liberal journalistic institution -- unless he's all talk. At a Federal Trade Commission conference on the future of journalism Tuesday, Arianna Huffington (pictured) vowed to hand over her share of the...

Apparently no one told Rupert Murdoch that the recession is over. Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (NWS) is closing its Boston bureau, according to a memo sent out Thursday by managing editor Robert Thomson. "The economic background to the closure is painfully obvious to us all," wrote Thomson, adding...

It's the hottest new media meme since lolcats: The internet is a leech, a louse, a bloodsucker -- a parasite. Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson recently described websites that use others' content to build their own traffic as "tech tapeworms as the intestines of the internet."...

Can professional journalists be twusted to tweet? The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times don't seem to think so: the Journal recently handed its staff a detailed new set of guidelines governing "online activities," while the Times hired a "social media editor" whose job includes (but isn't...