Back in Business: ‘E&P’ Sold, Resumes Operations
Editor & Publisher, the only independent news organization reporting on all aspects of the transforming newspaper business, has resumed publication in print and online following its sale Jan. 14 to Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc., the Irvine, Calif.-based magazine and newspaper publisher.

Media Struggle to Convey a Disaster
Amid banner headlines and hours of television coverage, reporters and anchors struggled to convey the enormousness of the devastation in Haiti, as the world’s news media directed their collective attention to the crippled country.

Times Reminds Reporters to be ‘Constantly Alert’

News Corp is foolish to block linking
Linking to public internet sites is right for democracy and journalism and News Corporation is wrong to impede it. Linking is more than merely a function and feature of the internet. Linking is a right. The link enables fair comment. It powers the link economy that will sustain media. It is a tool for accountability. It is the keystone to free speech online.

Saudi billionaire eyes new links with News Corp.
The Saudi billionaire whose investment firm is one of the biggest stakeholders in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. said he is looking to expand his alliances with the media giant, in the latest indication that his appetite for growth remains robust even as his company retrenches.

New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers
New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the Financial Times.

Debating journalism’s post-print path
Panelists discussed technologies and business models as paths to the future as the Internet changes the news business

Mediabistro.com’s First Ever Media Jobs Report
With layoffs and hiring freezes, the media companies that once dominated the employment landscape gave way to a host of other players. The top 10 job posters on mediabistro.com in 2007 accounted for 19% of all job postings. These same 10 companies accounted for 16% of all job postings in 2008, while in 2009 they accounted for only 8% of total postings.

Interactive Commercials Show Strong Early Results
After years of one-off tests, single-market trials and several false starts, interactive TV advertising finally achieved scale this fall when Cablevision became the first cable operator to offer the technology across its full footprint of 3.1 million subscribers in the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey area.

Earthquakes and Journalism
Journalism is not a particularly esteemed profession, says Steve Coll in the New Yorker, but its capacity to bear witness remains one of its more redeeming attributes

Supreme lessons in journalism
According to their curricula vitae, not one of Canada’s top judges has ever worked as a journalist. Nevertheless, without experiencing life in a newsroom, the current members of the Supreme Court of Canada have undoubtedly raised the bar for standards of ethical journalism in this country.

INDIA
Print media should devote more space to classical fine arts
The market has driven out music from the pages of the Indian press. It is time now to reverse the trend, and influential newspapers should take the lead in devoting more space and attention to the classical fine arts, N. Murali, Managing Director of The Hindu and president of The Music Academy, Chennai, said here Jan. 16.

Journalism fellowship put together in honour of Michelle Lang, killed in Afghanistan

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