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News Corp. hires Toni Cook Bush to oversee lobbying after split

2013-05-15 12:44:00

News Corp. has hired a D.C. heavyweight to handle its lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill after it becomes primarily a newspaper publishing company. Antoniette "Toni" Cook Bush will join News Corp. next month as its executive vice president and global head...

Unions protest over potential sale of L.A. Times to Koch brothers

2013-05-15 00:00:00

About 300 labor union members and other activists staged a demonstration to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the politically conservative Koch brothers. Demonstrators marched outside the downtown L.A. headquarters of Oaktree...

Unions protest over potential L.A. Times sale to Koch brothers

2013-05-14 16:35:00

About 300 labor-union members and other activists staged a demonstration Tuesday to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the billionaire politically conservative Koch brothers. Demonstrators marched outside the downtown L.A....

Pakistan expels N.Y. Times reporter on eve of historic elections

2013-05-11 09:02:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani government ordered the Islamabad bureau chief for the New York Times to leave the country on the eve of landmark parliamentary elections, according to the newspaper’s website. Declan Walsh, 39, was told...

With company split, Rupert Murdoch's pay to reach $28.3 million

2013-04-26 08:50:00

Although News Corp. plans to divide into two separate publicly traded companies in a few months, Rupert Murdoch won't see much division in his annual compensation. Instead he will get a little addition. Murdoch's combined salary, bonus and other...

Rupert Murdoch's entertainment group to be named 21st Century Fox

2013-04-16 15:21:00

Rupert Murdoch has settled on a new name for his soon-to-be-reconstituted film and television company: 21st Century Fox, a moniker with a guaranteed 87-year shelf life. That should be more than sufficient for the 82-year-old media mogul. Murdoch and...

USA Today founder Al Neuharth dies at 89

2013-04-19 16:58:00

COCOA BEACH, Fla. — USA Today founder Al Neuharth died Friday in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was 89. The news was announced by USA Today and by the Newseum, which he also founded. Neuharth launched USA Today, the nation's most widely read newspaper, in...

Fate of UC Irvine student newspaper hangs on campus election

2013-04-19 11:56:00

The longtime campus newspaper at UC Irvine may be forced to cease printing in the next year if students fail to approved a quarterly fee to help sustain the weekly publication. Like newspapers across the country, rising printing costs have forced UCI'...

Stop dissing the humanities

2013-04-19 00:00:00

If any line item in the state or federal budgets cries out for more resources, or even just a little more respect, it's the arts and humanities. Never mind that many writers, artists and scholars have the fresh ideas that our times so desperately need....

Is the media to blame for the brain injuries of hockey players?

2013-04-17 14:30:00

Why is hockey such a violent and dangerous sport? Medical researchers from Canada have an answer: Blame the media. “Media reports of an issue such as TBI in sport can contribute to an altered culture,” they write in a study published...

Noel Greenwood dies at 75; former L.A. Times senior editor

2013-04-22 00:00:00

Noel Greenwood, a former senior editor at the Los Angeles Times who helped shape local and California coverage as the newspaper outgrew its modest local ambitions and transformed itself into one of national stature, died Sunday at his Santa Barbara home....

Al Neuharth dies at 89; newspaper mogul created USA Today

2013-04-20 00:00:00

Al Neuharth, the newspaper mogul who in 1982 made a $1-billion gamble called USA Today that earned derision for its emphasis on brevity, flashy graphics and upbeat stories but endured to become the nation's largest-circulation newspaper, died Friday in...

Why we're watching: While the Chicago Tribune's parent company, Tribune Co., has just emerged from bankruptcy protection under new ownership, Ferro enters his second year in the challenging publishing industry.

2013-01-07 00:00:00

John Kass John Kass has covered a variety of topics since arriving at the Chicago Tribune in 1983. The son of a Greek immigrant grocer, Kass was born June 23, 1956, on Chicago's South Side and grew up there and in Oak Lawn.

2011-02-16 08:47:57

. He has reviewed and commented on culture, the arts, politics and entertainment for the Tribune for 15 years. Along with being the paper's chief voice on local and national theatrical productions, he also writes a weekly column on culture and the arts.

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