Web journalist and freelance writer David Cohn asserts that the system many publications, especially newspapers, use to fund their operations is broken.

The Amethyst Initiative is calling on the public and politicians to rethink the US' drinking laws

CNN'S decision to officially add "all-platform journalists" to its 10 new US bureaus, alongside general assignment reporters, marks the need for network news outlets to operate as nimbly as local citizen journalists in order to survive.

Russia and Georgia have both hired PR firms to help tell their story and gain foreign support

Although a 6.3% DROP in newsstand sales of US consumer magazines during the first half of 2008 surely alarmed many in the publishing and communications industries, magazines are not likely to see the massive staff cuts now plaguing the newspaper world.

The US population is made up of numerous groups of minorities from various ethnic backgrounds. But a recent Census reports what many have already noticed: Non-white groups are emerging as majorities.

The announcement sparked discussion of the future of financial comms and newswires

In a sharp contrast to the changes occurring in traditional US media, Spanish-language publications and TV stations are not only growing in size and scope, but actively reaching the core demographic of Spanish speakers who live in the US.

In the wake of a National Enquirer alleging evidence of former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) of marital infidelity, which he has previously denied, conservative commentators, bloggers, and columnists have expressed outrage that the mainstream press has not yet picked up the story en masse.

Since FDIC took control of IndyMac, the industry is attempting to send a clear and strong message