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The day before the Santa Barbara News-Press imploded last July, the paper's top editors gathered at Editor Jerry Roberts' rambling hacienda to discuss the future under owner Wendy McCaw. The [...]

When Arthur Sulzberger Jr. visited the International Herald Tribune offices in Paris last July to host a town hall meeting, he faced a far less hostile crowd than the first [...]

Gary Webb never remembered the unruly Polish name of his hard-boiled colleague at Cleveland's Plain Dealer who called editors unprintable expletives and declared 'It's The Big One!' every time he [...]

Within seconds after we meet, Gary Pruitt is apologizing profusely, digging his hands deep into the pockets of his blue jeans and confessing to a misunderstanding between him and his [...]

A behind-the-scenes look at how CNN, despite red glags, aired--and was forced to retract--am explosive report on the military's alleged use of poison gas. Richard Kaplan remembers vividly his reaction [...]

A growing number of editors believe explaining the rationale for controversial decisions to readers and viewers can help strengthen credibility. The Boston Globe broke a venerated journalistic tradition last fall: […]

A powerful Los Angeles Times series on the mistreatment of children by their drug-addicted parents spotlights an ethical quandary: When should journalists shed their observer status and go for help? [...]

For a series on dehumanizing and dangerous work, Wall Street Journal reporter Tony Horwitz applied for a job at a chicken-processing plant a few years ago. In reporting the story, [...]

RARELY HAS MEETING OF THE KNIGHT-RIDDER BOARD concluded without some discussion of 'the Seattle Times problem.' Talk turned to action three years ago when Knight-Ridder launched a hostile bid for [...]

Some of the newspaper business' leading figures were among the hundreds who solemnly filed into the First United Methodist Church in Coral Gables on a warm Florida day last June, [...]

The story of Orange County's imminent financial debacle was handed to the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times. But the rivals in one of the nation's most bitter [...]

Warren Rudman was riding in a taxi September 11 listening to public radio when he heard that terrorists had destroyed the World Trade Center. The former Republican senator from New [...]

THE STORY WAS NAILED DOWN: A WOMAN WHO SAID SHE had been involved with Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole, the family values candidate, was on the record revealing they had […]

After years of turbulence and trauma, the Los Angeles Times regains momentum under new leadership and ownership. Arapper's murder taught John Carroll his first lesson about what it means to [...]

The Los Angeles Times was looking for aggressive new ways to sell more newspapers a few years back, when one of the paper's executives proposed a simple plan: Pay public […]

Investigative reporter John Sawatsky has become a leading authority on the art of the interview. His conclusion: Too often we're asking all the wrong questions. Author John Sawatsky, Canada's premier [...]

Then-Times Mirror Chairman and CEO Mark H. Wiles reportedly broke into tears after his board of directors agreed in March to a Tribune Co. takeover of the publishing empire he […]

More than at any time in recent memory, newspaper editors are leaving their jobs--voluntarily or involuntarily--without another one in sight. The changing nature of the business has made the coveted [...]

The Seattle Times goes morning, competing one-on-one with its rival--and business partner--the Post Intelligencer. Is this a war where everyone wins? Perhaps most conspicuous at the first morning news meeting [...]

The most entertaining American newspaper war so far this century will surely take place between the Chronicle and the Examiner in San Francisco. If only the lawyers would get out [...]

When Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashed en route to Washington in January, among Seattle's dead were a fun-loving gay couple, a millionaire businessman, fiances returning from missionary work in Mexico--and [...]

A British program teaches journalists how to survive in the world's war zone. The scene is a country estate out of a Jane Austen novel in Hampshire, England, where seven [...]

Though Orange County reporters and editors say they did all they could to break the bankruptcy story, two reporters in Cleveland showed how they might have done it better. Last [...]