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British police on Saturday arrested five senior members of staff at News Corporation's flagship newspaper The Sun, the company said, as part of investigations into alleged payments to police by journalists for information.

What I always find so refreshing about FORBES is our clear and consistent mission. We’re about entrepreneurial capitalism. I’ve felt for quite some time that journalists needed to breathe in that spirit. It would help them better understand consumers and develop editorial coverage more relevant to their lives.

Over the past few months, I have become increasingly interested in #Twitter with the help of my friend, Julie Hunt (@juliebhunt) of . Like (@Univ_of_Oregon) #Prof. Kyu Ho Youm (@Marshall Youm), I use Twitter to share, learn, and keep virtual note cards. As you've immediately noticed, I (@BenKerschberg) am writing this short piece in a ...

That was the headline on a conservative blog following a $2.5 million judgment this month against blogger Crystal Cox in a defamation case tried in federal court in Oregon. It’s a case followed closely in both the blogosphere and in the traditional media, as it highlights the proliferation of blogging, the blurring of lines between journalists and bloggers and more libel cases born out of blog posts.

The BBC News website wins an international award for general excellence in online journalism.

Former senior News Corp. executive Les Hinton is being recalled to testify before a parliamentary committee over a phone-hacking scandal involving journalists at the now defunct News of the World newspaper, a spokesman for the panel said Tuesday.

The News of the World journalist James Desborough has been arrested over alleged phone hacking at the paper.

The British judge leading the government-backed probe into illegal eavesdropping by journalists will start ordering people to testify and hand over documents "as soon as possible," he said Thursday, as the inquiry launched.

When the Rockville Central blog wanted to increase its readership, the owners looked to Facebook’s 750 million members and thought: Let’s move everything there.

Venezuelan prosecutors say a newspaper columnist who was also an opposition political activist has been shot to death.