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Why Would a Newspaper Company Launch a Startup Incubator?
For most print publishers, the transition from ink to pixels has been at least somewhat painful. Over the last few years, the industry has seen widespread layoffs, furloughs, bankruptcies and...
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Newspaper Articles Not Copyrightable In Slovakia
Yenya writes “In Slovakia, newspaper articles can be freely aggregated and archived, and are not worth copyright protection. The district court in Bratislava, Slovakia, stated in the case between news...
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Hacked Syrian Officials Used ’12345′ As Email Password
Nominei writes “The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the Syrian President, aides and staffers had their email hacked by Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of emails online. Reportedly, many of the...
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Betting on the Future, Washington Post Hires Slashdot Founder
To say that journalism has changed in the last few years is putting it mildly. Those that watch the news industry and have a concern for its future are all too the familiar with the statistics....
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Canadian Bureacracy Can’t Answer Simple Question: What’s This Study With NASA?
Saint Aardvark writes “It seemed like a pretty simple question about a pretty cool topic: an Ottawa newspaper wanted to ask Canada’s National Research Council about a joint study with NASA on tracking...
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German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn
According to CNN, which credits Hamburg-based newspaper Die Zeit, German investigators have uncovered a trove of more than 100 Al Qaeda documents recovered from a “digital storage device” (and memory...
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Foxconn CEO Fuels iTV Rumors
An anonymous reader writes “Apple may soon begin production of a full-blown HDTV, dubbed iTV by Apple watchers, according to the Terry Gou, CEO of Apple’s main hardware supplier Foxconn, in a brief...
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The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It
Hugh Pickens writes writes “Alan D. Mutter writes that with a 50% drop in newspaper advertising since 2005, the old ways of running a newspaper can no longer succeed so most publishers are faced with...
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How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution
Hugh Pickens writes “Although today the stigma of lifting passages can haunt media professionals forever, Revolutionary War Historian Todd Andrlik writes that 250 years ago stealing another reporter’s...
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Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards
inode_buddha writes “Not long ago we ran a story about how a NY newspaper published lists of gun owners. Now, it seems the same newspaper has hired armed guards in response to unspecified threats to...
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