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.

In what looks like a margin call of massive proportions, billionaire media tycoon Sumner Redstone is being forced to unload $400 million worth of nonvoting shares in CBS and Viacom.

NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell is taking some heat for her reporting on the unfolding financial crisis.

Several current and former Los Angeles Times staffers have sued Chicago billionaire Sam Zell and the Tribune Company for misusing employees’ stock to purchase the media conglomerate last December.

The news that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu and members of his family had acquired a 6.4 percent stake in the New York Times Co. baffled analysts, but boosted the price of depressed Times shares.

Political analyst Rachel Maddow has gotten her own show, replacing Dan Abrams in the MSNBC lineup.

All the President’s Men catapulted reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to stardom. Little credit at the time was given to the book’s editor, Alice Mayhew. But it would be Woodward and Mayhew who became the more important team.

Can a former aerospace engineer who pioneered the development of satellite television save the Los Angeles Times?

Political analyst Rachel Maddow may be an openly gay, former AIDS activist who doesn’t own a TV set. But her smarts and self-assurance have catapulted her to the forefront of cable TV’s talking heads, and made her a likely bet for her own time slot on MSNBC.

Just in time for the presidential elections, former drug czar William Bennett and faith-based programs guru David Kuo will launch a new website designed to be the conservative answer to Slate.