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Another new face as News Corporation seeks to reinvigorate its digital businesses.

The shake-up coincides with an overall streamlining at the magazine and its parent company, Macmillan.

France this winter approved a plan under which, for the first time, foreign producers would be eligible for financial support to shoot in France.

The executive shakeup comes as MySpace works to catch up with rival Facebook, which is now the world?s largest social network.

Hollywood studios say software that lets users save digital copies of DVDs hurts the movie industry.

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Earth Day and the green living movement has mainly become an attempt by marketers to squeeze out every last bit of attention, traffic, and revenue from a trend that makes us all feel better about living in a consumerist society. But there are still a few search-driven sites making eco-friendly tourism and sustainable travel a reality. ...

Sales of over-the-counter sleep aids have risen sharply in recent months, but one expert cautions against relying on them too frequently.

The New York Times Company Foundation announced it was suspending its grant-making and matching gift program two days after the company reported a $74.5 million loss in the first quarter of 2009.

James Carville and Mary Matalin will soon be sparring about politics in public more often.

Peter W. Kaplan used tart headlines and talented young writers to create a kind of contemporary municipal history.

Glenn Kramon, assistant managing editor for enterprise, is answering reader questions this week.

The publisher posted a $37.5 million loss and a 25 percent decline in revenue for the first quarter, as the recession hit ad revenues for newspapers and Web sites.

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The new interactive ads appear when a viewer pauses or fast-forwards, and offer information, accessible through the remote.

Centric, a BET channel aimed at African-American audiences from 25 to 54 years old, is scheduled to go on the air in October.

Clinton R. Culpepper is the producer behind many of the genre movies that have become consistent money-makers for the Screen Gems unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The cause of death for Kelly Breslin, 44, the daughter of the columnist Jimmy Breslin, was not available, pending an autopsy.

The executive, Chris DeWolfe, is reportedly leaving the social networking site in a management shake-up.

WNYC radio?s new performance space has ambitions to be more than just another electronic-news-ticker-wrapped, street-level broadcast studio.

The five prizes for The New York Times were the second most in its history. The Las Vegas Sun won the public service prize.

For millions of real estate wannabes, Carleton Sheets?s infomercials embodied the bubble as much as Citigroup or Merrill Lynch did.

Clear Channel Communications is seeking to reorganize its debt load, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.

With the LC Lauren Conrad brand, Kohl?s continues its strategy of selling well-known brands, or brands by well-known people, at low prices.

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Mr. Peebler turned a small Omaha advertising company called Bozell & Jacobs into a global powerhouse.

Aflac and other companies are looking for ways to keep big-budget ad campaigns going despite the recession.

The departure of Wenda Harris Millard, who will leave to join a public relations firm, ends a period of joint leadership.

The company joined the roster of newspaper companies recording the steepest advertising declines in generations.

A Dutch company has purchased the rights to Rodgers and Hammerstein songs and shows.

A custom-made publication created by Time Inc. and Lexus could be a new business model for publishers, but there have been problems with production.

Randall Munroe, creator of the online comic strip xkcd, is publishing a print book -- you know, dead trees, ink, no text search, nonadjustable font size.

The May issue of Wired, guest-edited by J. J. Abrams, was designed to immerse readers in a series of riddles.

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Publishers are hoping that millions of page views on a blog will translate into booming sales on the bookstand.

Demographic shifts and a recession are making older consumers ? long shunned in favor of free-spending, younger age groups ? into better bets.

The coverage of the tax day tea parties augured a return to the days of the party press, where news outlets reflected viewpoints of specific wings of political thought.

The section will focus on news out of Israel and will run on Sundays, a day that has been a particular circulation problem for The New York Post.

The decision gives the music and movie industries a major victory in their campaign to curb online piracy.

Disney Theatrical Productions is preparing a new marketing plan to attract families and others during this economic climate, in which the three Disney musicals risk vying with one another.

Adobe expects TVs that support its Flash format to start selling later this year, offering content creators a single format for an expanding ecosystem of digital devices.

After years of celebrating the excesses of youth, MTV is adding shows with a veneer of positive social messages.

Is it accurate to assert that reading the newspaper online instead of in print cuts carbon dioxide emissions? Not exactly, or at least not all the time. Not yet.

Tweets in a parody of Twitter users by Garry Trudeau ran afoul of the service?s 140-character limit.

Pizza Hut Inc. is looking for Summer Twinterns ? i.e. a summer intern who uses Twitter ? to aid the company in social media outreach.

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After working as a war correspondent during World War II, Mr. Reid became The New York Herald Tribune?s editor and, ultimately, its chairman.

Most of The Journal-Constitution?s editorial board will be replaced in May, a move that could produce a less liberal voice for one of the country?s leading regional papers.

Members of the Screen Actors Guild will now have their say on a proposed new contract that is little changed from what the major Hollywood studios offered 10 months ago.