Media

The Wall Street Journal's John Jannarone explains how News Corp. would split its entertainment and publishing businesses in two.

Rupert Murdoch’s troubled company is considering splitting the entertainment side of the business from the publishing business.

The main newspaper in New Orleans is trimming its staff and cutting production. So how do newspapers decide which days to publish?

The expulsion of the correspondent of Al Jazeera English from China is a blow to the rapidly expanding news service.

In London, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and his son James are facing tough questions at a government hearing into news media ethics. When they appeared together before parliament last year, the Murdochs did not get an easy ride. One lawmaker accused them of running their media empire like the mafia.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that public radio and TV stations cannot be barred from running political messages. But does this mean public stations are about to get a flood of paid campaign messages?

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes takes over as owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic. He's 28. The magazine is nearly 100.

Over the weekend, conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh publicly apologized for the language he's been using to attack a Georgetown law student.

The newspaper is following a national trend by instituting a so-called pay wall to read online content. But there is no guarantee the move will work as well in Los Angeles as it has for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

Why are more and more low-tech companies struggling to survive?