At a time when other publishers are struggling, Hearst Magazines is doing well using a strategy that defies the current conventional wisdom.

Readers following the tribulations of The New York Times are likely to know the names of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, a big shareholder in the company, and David Geffen, a big would-be shareholder.

Billionaire financier F. Warren Hellman, who already underwrites an annual music festival and a free health clinic in San Francisco, has pledged to develop a new model for community journalism.

Mark J. Penn has offended bloggers for suggesting – heaven forbid – that they are making money.

Like the man he replaced at the New York Times, Ross G. Douthat was a conservative voice in the wilderness during his undergraduate years at Harvard (’02).

Joined by two other media heavyweights, the man who created Court TV has launched a venture that could bring much-needed revenues to the embattled newspaper and magazine industry.

Is the billionaire philanthropist considering another run at the Los Angeles Times?

He may have left the Baltimore Sun many years ago, but Emmy-Award winning writer David Simon still burns with righteous indignation over the injustices of urban life.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Arthur G. Sulzberger III reports to work Monday as a Metro desk reporter at The New York Times.

In a homecoming on behalf of the homeless, celebrated writer Gay Talese made a return this week to The New York Times.

Some are billing it as a back-door way for Google to enter the news business.

Score one for Sports Illustrated. In November 2007, the weekly magazine hired sports columnist Selena Roberts away from The New York Times.

The firing of Nat Hentoff by the Village Voice last week after he had been with the paper for 50 years posed a problem for reporters and headline writers.

Some see President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to sit down for his first print interview with Ebony magazine as a symbolic nod to the readers of the historic black magazine.

David Gregory is in talks with NBC News to become the next moderator of “Meet the Press,” the popular Sunday news show.

A sense of fairness is treasured in the news business. But connections are, too. Tom Brokaw, currently the interim host of “Meet the Press,” would seem to have both.

They’re both displaced Brits. They’ve been friends for years. And now they have their own news and opinion websites, one doing very well, the other starting up but making noise.

How to attract young readers to the Old Gray Lady? Signing rock star Bono as a columnist might be a start.

Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, whose stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were proven wrong after the U.S. invasion, is joining Fox News as an analyst on national security issues.

Like father, like son. Well, maybe not. On Friday, the satirist and conservative columnist Christopher Buckley endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.