Newspapers around the country — including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch — carried front-page stories last week hailing police Sgt. Kimblerly Munley as the hero who single-handedly brought down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in the rampage at Fort Hood.  While Munley was…

The Boston Globe is reporting that it won’t be sold by the New York Times Co.  A story on boston.com says the Times cited a better financial picture at the Globe.

From that story:

In a memo sent to employees at 5 p.m. (4…

A number of us at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wish we had a do-over with the Van Jones story. The first story we published about the controversy was on Saturday Sept.  5, a six-paragraph Associated Press report about Jones apologizing…

The New York Times kept secret the war-zone kidnapping of one of its reporters, who today was rescued in a raid resulting in the death of a British commando, the reporter’s Afghan interpreter and perhaps some Afghan civilians.

Stephen Farrell was kidnapped…

Blair in March 2004. AP photo.

The Associated Press’ Matthew Barakat decided to catch up with Jayson Blair — one of journalism’s most infamous names.

Blair resigned from the New York Times in 2003 after committing a battery of journalistic sins. From the Times…

Bill Clinton has arrived in North Korea, the Associated Press is reporting, in a diplomatic mission to win the release of two jailed American Journalists.

The New York Times says the White House has refused to comment on Clinton’s trip. But the…

Bloomberg’s Greg Bensinger reports:

New York Times Co. said in a survey of print subscribers that it’s considering a $5 monthly fee for access to its namesake newspaper’s Web site.

Times Co. also asked whether subscribers would be willing to pay a…

The New York Times is going to begin charging for online content.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the publisher of the Times says that he’ll decide by next month how to charge readers.  The Times would become the first…

Robert Porter of Wildwood — in a letter to the editor published Wednesday on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Opinion Page — requests that we stop using news articles produced by “east coast liberals.” He calls for us to use more…

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Was Michael Jackson’s death worth front-page display in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? For editors yesterday, the answer was clearly yes.

But how much display was appropriate? News of his death arrived late afternoon. (Bob Rose will be posting a…