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The Journal Register Company filed for Chapter 11 protection from its creditors on Saturday, saying a slump in advertising revenue and circulation were to blame.

Within an industry, fatigue has set in with the Oscar process as well as its expense.

Ms. Jacobus was a New York Times Company executive who had headed The Boston Globe and later led the company?s chain of regional newspapers.

After a wave of protests, Facebook said it would withdraw changes to its terms of service concerning the data supplied by users.

An agreement between the newspaper and a lobbyist does not call for payment or a retraction of an article about John McCain.

With mobile Web publishers, Google is following the same path it did online many years ago: Partnering with publishers to share ad inventory and planting its search box all over the place. ...

Requesting links is like asking someone to be your Valentine. You have to be sweet, and you'll get a lot of yeses simply by asking. But if you act strange, or go somewhere that you don't really belong and start asking for Valentines, all you'll get are weird looks. ...

Several sponsors from last year will bypass this show, and ad prices are estimated to be lower.

With no Hefner in charge, there seems to be a ?shift at the company,? an analyst said.

The suspension will save the company $34.5 million a year and is another in a series of concessions to sharply lower newspaper revenue.

Time Warner said it would complete the planned separation of Time Warner Cable through a spinoff that would give investors in the parent company some shares in the cable TV provider.

In addition to cutting salaries and benefits, the media company will also suspend matching 401(k) contributions and freeze pensions.

Friday will be Conan O?Brien?s last night on ?Late Night? before he decamps for Los Angeles to prepare to replace Jay Leno as host of NBC?s ?Tonight Show.?

The struggling search engine is trying to win business back from its big rival, Google, by improving click-through rates.

Have you ever tested out non-alphanumeric symbols in your PPC ads? Google discourages the use of certain symbols, but others are still allowed. ...

A successful viral marketing campaign can increase exposure for your company and product while increasing the number of links to your site. One of the hardest parts is coming up with the idea. ...

The Walt Disney Company said that it would lay off an unspecified number of workers as it revamped its theme parks after declines in attendance and revenue.

Papers from New York, Albany, Buffalo, Newark and Hackensack, N.J., are forming an alliance.

Weaker advertising sales in the quarter has forced the network to cut its dividend.

Partnering with the insurer Wellpoint, Zagat will allow patients to post reviews of doctors, some of whom are not impressed with the idea.

While there is movement by chip makers to spur a new generation of TVs with full browser capability, TV manufacturers simply do not seem to want it.

Some marketers are getting their messages across by putting tattoos, both permanent and temporary, on willing wearers.

More than 400 stations have stopped broadcasting in analog form, months before the rescheduled transition to digital TV.

A small search engine accused Google of raising its ad rates after it realized the company was a potential competitor.

Mr. Blank introduced the concept of using logolike images behind anchors as signatures for major news coverage.

Sirius XM?s infusion from Liberty Media means the satellite radio company can operate without fear of imminent bankruptcy.

Heinz is making its first major change in the ketchup label since the 1940s by replacing the pickle with a tomato above a new phrase, ?Grown not made.?

Marketers at Warner Brothers may have set a new standard on stretching the truth by heaping an unusual amount of praise on the director of the forthcoming superhero film ?Watchmen.?

The embattled satellite radio company said early Tuesday that it reached an 11th-hour deal that will allow it to avoid a bankruptcy filing.

Correspondents who exposed corruption in Zimbabwe and reporters who unraveled the mysteries of the mortgage crisis were among the winners of 14 George Polk Awards.

With Tuesday the due date for the company?s debt, a deal with a high-profile investor was said to be near.

As the recession has everyone else sweating bullets, deodorant brands are experiencing a sales bump thanks to stronger ?clinical? formulations.

The company has reached a deal with four music companies to allow unrestricted downloads or streaming songs and music videos.

URL structure makes a difference in SEO, but it's just one of many things! Ignorant columnists making false claims about topics they don't understand are bogus! From what I can tell, writing an "interesting" and "provocative" column about SEO means facts are optional. ...

It's pretty obvious everyone is hurting and everyone is tightening their belts where they can. One of the hardest things to grasp as a small business owner is where to tighten that belt, and how tight is too tight. This is the first in a series of articles that will give actionable advice on how to improve your rankings or revenue from search with no dollar investments -- aside from the time and effort it takes to research and implement these changes. ...

Before you begin any kind of social media marketing, I highly recommend setting up an account and jumping into a conversation or community. It's one thing to talk about social media, and another to experience it firsthand. You'll be a more effective social media marketer if you're already a participant. ...

William Flaiz bids farewell to Search Engine Watch by revisiting some of the hottest topics in search marketing agencies from the past 18 months. ...

Fox?s live Webcast ?The Strategy Room? resembles ABC?s ?The View? mixed with a dash of Rush Limbaugh and a generous helping of ?Wayne?s World.?

Two new television documentaries demonstrate that in making sense of an economic meltdown, there?s enough blame to go around.

When the National Public Radio analyst Juan Williams speaks on the Fox News Channel?s highest-rated program, the radio network doesn?t want any attention.

As the Russian market has long been plagued by piracy, many Western music companies have been wary about doing business in Russia.

Some parents, however, have taken issue with the Security Check Point toy, which includes armed airport security officers and a metal detector.

As illustrated in Alex Rodriguez?s positive steroid test result, personal information that seems anonymous is often traceable, and potentially life-changing.

Mr. Slim, Mexico?s richest man and now a major shareholder in and lender to The New York Times, has a complex relationship with the news media.

An undated Defense Department photo released in 2004.The rethinking of the ban on pictures of coffins returning the war dead comes at a highly political moment.

Sirius XM Radio said that it could file for bankruptcy protection as early as Tuesday if it could not successfully negotiate with the holders of its debt.

Let?s take two behemoths in the live music business, smush them together, and see how that works out for the consumer.

If Google were to buy Twitter and keep it as a free tool, it would give them the hottest thing in social media right now and an area that could use some help with tracking success. Left to its own devices, Twitter could create a large chink in Google's armor. ...

The company?s executives are pessimistic about the future for the media industry, where ad growth is weak.

The company, controlled by Paul Allen, reached a deal with creditors to reduce its debt by about $8 billion.