Why do so many former execs of failed media organizations get seats on corporate boards?

Is reporter John Stossel objective? Well, no. Nor does he claim to be.

Obit isn’t dead, though it could use more readers.

Saturday was a good day for Ruth Reichl, and she let the tweeting world know it.

Warren Hellman may not save the San Francisco Chronicle, as he had hoped, but he’s donating $5 million to an effort to save and improve other journalism outlets in the Bay area.

A recent comment by one Fox News Channel advertiser hints at a possible return to reasoned discourse.

Tribune Company creditors – including investment banks that are owed $8.6 billion – are working on a reorganization that will shove Sam Zell out the door.

The Media Research Center, an organization whose stated mission is to “bring balance and responsibility to the news media,” is recruiting conservative supporters with deep pockets.

Sam Sifton looks like a good guy. But as he gets ready to begin his new job as the hired gut of The New York Times, that’s caused a minor controversy.

Nikki Finke, former debutante turned reporter and editor, has become the blogger movie industry insiders have to read even when it hurts.

Only Walter Cronkite could have summed up in two words the drive that propelled him to his iconic role as the most trusted voice in broadcast news.

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.