The Times-Picayune, which distinguished itself during Hurricane Katrina, may undergo cost-cutting by its owner.

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Media Decoder: New Orleans Times-Picayune Is Said to Face Big Cuts

Newspapers run corrections all the time, but a mistake on television news, like NBC’s misleading editing of an audio clip by George Zimmerman, is often followed by silence.

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The Media Equation: TV News Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air

Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning journalist, was reporting inside Syria when he suffered a fatal asthma attack.

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Anthony Shadid, a New York Times Reporter, Dies in Syria

Four of Mitt Romney’s sons get out the message, while also offering a glimpse of themselves.

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The Romney Brothers Advance Father’s Iowa Campaign

The e-mails, which reached home-delivery subscribers and others, set off a flurry of confused reactions on Twitter.

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Media Decoder Blog: The Times E-Mails Millions by Mistake to Say Subscriptions Were Canceled

The group’s 16 newspapers were sold to Halifax Media Holdings, of Daytona Beach, Fla., for $143 million in cash.

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Media Decoder Blog: Times Co. Agrees to Sell Regional Newspaper Group

Pete Wells leaves the editor’s chair to become a critic for The Times. Replacing him will be Susan Edgerley.

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Media Decoder Blog: The Times Names a New Restaurant Critic and Dining Editor

James Murdoch returned to a parliamentary inquiry into the phone-hacking affair convulsing News Corporation and denied misleading the panel at an earlier appearance in July.

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James Murdoch Denies Misleading Parliamentary Panel

Rupert Murdoch’s son returns to Parliament on Thursday to defend himself against evidence that he knew that hacking was not limited to a single rogue reporter.

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James Murdoch Faces Skeptical British Lawmakers

Jill Abramson, a managing editor, will succeed Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer.

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Abramson Named Executive Editor at The Times

A third journalist was arrested for his role in an expanding case of phone-hacking by reporters at the British tabloid News of the World, police officials said.

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British Journalist Arrested in Hacking Case

After 16 years of NYC columns and many, many topics through 1,500 articles, this is the last.

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NYC: Explaining New York City, One Last Time

Frank Rich, who over the course of a three-decade career at The New York Times was theater critic, magazine essayist and Sunday Op-ed columnist, is leaving the paper to join New York magazine.

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Media Decoder: Frank Rich to Leave The Times for New York Magazine

Wayne Barrett, in 37 years at The Village Voice, was the master of chronicling the underbelly of New York City politics.

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The (Ex) Voice of the Village

The results are in: lots of awards from Pictures of the Year International; many of them to Barbara Davidson of The Los Angeles Times.

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Lens: Unveiling the Pictures of the Year