David Carr, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, has battled his own crack addition; he has survived cancer. Perhaps strengthened by those struggles, he’s now taking on a force that sometimes sends other reporters running for the hills: The PR department of Fox News.

Does the brash COO of the Tribune Company have any vision of where he is taking it - beyond bailing as fast as he can to stave off potential bankruptcy in the face of the $13-billion debt incurred by Sam Zell’s purchase last year?

Some men buy their wives flowers; others, chocolates. Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, bought his third wife, Elizabeth, a community newspaper.

As the presidential primaries dragged to a close, Republicans and Democrats alike agreed that there was at least one winner, Chuck Todd of NBC News and MSNBC.

There was a time when Sheldon G. Adelson seemed famous for his anonymity. He built casinos, backed politicians and contributed millions of dollars to a variety of causes but stayed behind the scenes.

It’s official. Keith Olbermann is mad. Mad as in angry, irritated and grumpy.

Don’t bother reading the Rolling Stone story (dated June 26) on Mark Zuckerberg and “The Battle for Facebook.” It has been done before. And better.

The network that gave Tim Russert his start in life was called “The Seminar” by those who graduated from it.

One of the many ironies of the endless 2008 primary season is that two of the bigger news stories were generated by an unpaid “citizen journalist.”

It’s been that kind of year. As the primary season is about to end, as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could be preparing to say a graceful goodbye to the presidential race, her husband has gotten into yet another food fight.