Washington state has given a tax break to newspapers there.
The Seattle Times reports on its web site this morning that Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation giving newspaper printers and publishers a 40 percent cut in the state’s main business tax. The…
Dan DeLong/Seattle P-I, via AP
Tuesday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be the last edition of the 146-year-old Hearst newspaper, which will become the largest paper in the country to shift from print to being entirely an online operation.
The number of journalists gathering the…
“In the 21st century can public-service journalism remain viable, relevant and accountable?”
That’s the title of a forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 at the Missouri History Museum, Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue. It will be hosted by the Reynolds Journalism…
Citing economic pressures facing the newspaper industry, two publishers in the Pacific Northwest have asked the state of Washington for tax breaks.
According to the Associated Press, the publishers of the Seattle Times and The Columbian in Vancouver testified in support…
In response to a question at his news conference Monday evening, President Barack Obama says he’s reviewing a policy that bans the media from photographing flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers.
The ban stirred media controversy in April 2004, when a…
