For decades, the name “Hearst” meant megamedia - an empire of dozens of opinionated news­papers, magazines, broadcast properties, a movie studio and expansive real estate holdings as well as a great art collection. Even now, the company that William Randolph Hearst left behind at his death in 1951 owns 16 daily newspapers, 16 magazines, and […]

In 2004, dismayed over the gloomy state of newspaper journalism and his own career prospects, Mr. Broughton, then 32, quit his job as Paris bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph of London and enrolled in Harvard Business School. As he recalls in “Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School” (Penguin Press), his […]

Even if Alex Gibney’s new documentary, “Gonzo,” were not subtitled “The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,” there would be little doubt about its subject. Thompson, who committed suicide in 2005, survives to some degree in the popular imagination because of his self-burnished reputation for wild excess.
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“Citizen McCaw” delivers chapter and verse of how owner Wendy McCaw, who had bought the News-Press from the New York Times Co. for more than $100 million after her reported billion-dollar divorce settlement from cellular magnate Craig McCaw, poisoned the climate of ethics and professionalism that Roberts had been working so doggedly to elevate.
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What happens if the newspaper presses stop rolling? That’s the big question behind the documentary Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril, which has its world premiere today at the AFI […]