GOP Presidential Candidates Spurn Press -- And Gain Popularity For It

GOP Presidential Candidates Spurn Press -- And Gain Popularity For It

First Posted: 8/13/11 03:29 PM ET Updated: 8/13/11 03:29 PM  2012 Republican Primary , Mitt Romney ,
Newt Gingrich , Republican Debate , Republican Presidential Candidate , Elections 2012 , Facebook , Newt Gingrich , Republican Primary , Rick Perry , Social Media , Transparency , 2012 Presidential Election , Texas Governor Rick Perry , Ames Straw Poll, Gop 2012 Primary , Iowa , Media , Mitt Romney 2012 , Rick Perry 2012 , Texas , Politics News

AMES, IOWA -- Politicians don't like the press. Republican politicians like the press even less. Richard Nixon put reporters on his Enemies List, perhaps with good reason. George W. Bush kept the press at at arms length, allowing only a few reporters glancing access.

AOL to Buy The Huffington Post - NYTimes.com

AOL to Buy The Huffington Post - NYTimes.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

By JEREMY W. PETERS and VERNE G. KOPYTOFF

Published: February 7, 2011

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News

Arianna Huffington said that as she began talking to Tim Armstrong of AOL, “it was really amazing how aligned our visions were.”

On Sunday, Tim Armstrong said the deal fit “right into our strategy.”

The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and announced the deal just after midnight on Monday. AOL will pay $315 million, $300 million of it in cash and the rest in stock. It will be the company’s largest acquisition since it was separated from Time Warner in 2009.

Alexander Lebedev: Full address to Society of Editors conference - Press Gazette

Alexander Lebedev: Full address to Society of Editors conference - Press Gazette

Alexander Lebedev: Full address to Society of Editors conference

15 November 2010

By Alexander Lebedev

The owner of The Independent and the London Evening Standard last night delivered the opening address to the Society of Editors conference in Glasgow where he made an impassioned defence of liberal values and then later vowed to fight global corruption through establishing a foundation to fund investigative journalism.
Here is his address in full:
Good evening and thank you for inviting me to speak.
It is very good NOT to be surrounded by men with semi-automatic guns wearing balaclavas, but then thankfully this is Scotland, the land of Enlightenment.

Media mogul Lebedev warns of threats to freedom | The Spy Report

Media mogul Lebedev warns of threats to freedom | The Spy Report

Media mogul Lebedev warns of threats to freedom

Monday, 15 November 2010 | By Cyril Washbrook

Alexander Lebedev, the newspaper proprietor, said that he would continue to fight corruption and threats to press freedom (Source: Society of Editors)

The Russian newspaper proprietor Alexander Lebedev has called for an unflinching fight against global threats to journalism, during a speech in which he criticised his home country's record on corruption and press freedom.

Newsweek Can Be Good Acquisition for Russian Oligarch - Pravda.Ru

Newsweek Can Be Good Acquisition for Russian Oligarch - Pravda.Ru

Newsweek, a well-known publication of The Washington Post Co., has been put up for sale. The magazine has not been returning profit during the recent several years, and its owners expect more losses this year. As a result, Donald Graham, the WashPo chairman, decided that it would be better to sell the magazine to someone else.

"Despite heroic efforts on the part of Newsweek's management and staff, we expect it to still lose money in 2010. We are exploring all options to fix that problem. Newsweek is a lively, important magazine and website, and in the current climate, it might be a better fit elsewhere," he said in a statement.

EUobserver / European reporters' unions want EU to back journalism as ‘public good'

EUobserver / European reporters' unions want EU to back journalism as ‘public good'

LEIGH PHILLIPS

20.04.2010 @ 17:34 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - In response to the crisis of journalism in Europe, journalists' unions from across the continent are to launch a campaign to press the EU to encourage member states to strengthen the sector.
If governments can fund theatre and art galleries to protect cultural pluralism, they say, they can fund journalism to protect information pluralism as well.

At its annual meeting in Istanbul, the European Federation of Journalists, which represents unions from 24 countries, resolved to push Brussels to respond to the crisis that is seeing media revenues in a "spiral of decline."
"A toxic mix of editorial cuts, precarious working conditions and unethical journalism has created a spiral of decline for media and democracy in Europe," said Arne König, the organisation's president.
Specifically, the unions plan to lobby the European Commission and MEPs to push EU member states "to open up national debates on strengthening journalism as a public good."
The unions' main worry is the collapse of how to pay for journalism when advertisers are deserting the sector.
The multiple closures of newspapers throughout Europe and slashing of the number of staff in newsrooms means that journalistic standards are rapidly declining, and with them, the checks and balances journalism provides to democratic societies.
In particular, say the unions, publishers and broadcasters have targeted editing, investigative and specialist news reporting.