journalism

The rapid decline of the newspaper business over the past couple of decades was a major hit to the media world, but there are new and powerful forms of media that have gained an immense amount of traction on the digital frontier. Websites like Buzzfeed and Gawker are embracing wit, snark and...

It’s no secret: The traditional newspaper revenue model of relying mostly on advertising dollars has been fading from the picture for at least the past decade. In 2013 alone, total newspaper media revenue decline 2.6 percent, according to the Newspaper Association of America, with revenue...

The Associated Press made a historic announcement this week that it would be using automation technology to write company earnings reports. Many are asserting that this decision indicates that another middle-class job is being replaced by technology, that writers will soon be taken...

The Associated Press announced Monday that it will begin using automated technology to write company earnings reports next month. A vast amount of reporters' time and resources is spent on producing approximately 300 earnings reports each quarter, AP Managing Editor Lou Ferrera said in a...

The biggest weekly magazines in Detroit have become one. Metro Times announced on Monday it has merged with Real Detroit Weekly. But can an audience increasingly relying on digital media continue to support a weekly print publication? “We’re excited to join forces with the Metro Times to create...

University of Southern California professor Robert Hernandez is teaching a new class this fall, perhaps the first of its kind. While other journalism classes have included the use of Google Glass (NYSE: GOOG), Hernandez's course will focus entirely on Glass journalism. Hernandez has been...

A rumor is circulating that, if true, could further impact one of America's premier journalism outlets. According to Bloomberg, Telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú is planning on doubling his stake in the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). That action would reportedly bring his stake to 19 percent...