The New York Times has issues. Unsurprisingly, considering the humans trusted with populating the publication with content, The New York Times makes mistakes.

Nothing is local. Everything is global. This sort of sentiment gets reinforced daily to us, or so it seems.

My start in journalism was at a Web site. This experience is increasingly common today. But I had long anticipated working on a print publication, as that was really the only type of outlet discussed in my magazine journalism class.

The basic criticism of traditional women's magazines is that they too often assumed that women only wanted articles about conspicuous consumption, celebrity gossip, and beauty tips. A predilection for publishing photo spreads presenting unrealistic body images didn't help either.

NEW YORK: NetApp has launched a marketing campaign to complement its new brand messaging and strategy.

The economic realities of the publishing industry are forcing American newspapers to close down foreign bureaus, but at least one man is willing to bet on the viability of international media coverage targeted to US audiences.

The HD DVD format, championed by Toshiba and some major studios, is effectively being retired, with Toshiba announcing it will no longer manufacture HD DVD players and recorders (see PRWeek's coverage on the next-gen format war here).

The media ended the week by taking various swings at Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee, and Congress after Wednesday's Congressional hearing into baseball's steroid scandal.

Roger Clemens, thrower of fastballs and, sometimes, broken bats, asked a pertinent question during the grilling he received at the hands of a congressional committee last Wednesday: "How... can I prove a negative?"

Comments have historically been a less important element of PR pros' new-media monitoring strategy.