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New access and relevance has also stoked the debate about whether the black media should regard the first African-American president with a more critical eye.

Washington Post Co plans to offer a new round of buyouts in 2009 to employees at its namesake, money-losing newspaper and cannot rule out layoffs, its publisher said on Thursday.

The United States says North Korea has assured U.S. officials that two detained American reporters will be treated well.

La Jolla-based Copley Press Inc. is selling its flagship paper for an undisclosed sum.

NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker leapt to the defense of CNBC this morning, describing Comedy Central host Jon Stewart's evisceration of the network and Mad Money host Jim Cramer as "incredibly unfair to CNBC and the business media."

"CNBC is a spectacular organization and in particular Jim Cramer," he said.

The final edition of the Post-Intelligencer is further evidence of the decline of print, leaving the city's journalists to map the unknown territory of a new media landscape.

Tuesday's edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be the last copy to be printed, as a slimmed-down edition moves solely online.

The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry.

The Washington Post plans to fold its business news coverage into the main news section, making it the latest newspaper to reorganize in difficult times for print media.

Media search engine Technorati is about to release The Technorati Attention Index, which measures the mainstream media websites with the highest number of blogs linking to them in the past 30 days. Right now it has a blog post with the inaugural list. YouTube takes the top spot with the New York Times, BBC News, CNN.com, and MSN rounding out the top five.