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NEW YORK The Star Tribune of Minneapolis has become the latest, and so far the largest, daily newspaper to inform the Associated Press that it plans to drop the service in two years.

morrisj@phillynews.com 215-854-5573 "Would you be comfortable seeing people losing their jobs?" Diane Mastrull asked a crowded membership meeting of the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia last night. "Could you go home at night knowing that was happening?" Mastrull, an Inquirer reporter and unit chairperson for the Guild, and other union officers appealed to the members to vote for a postponement of a scheduled $25-a-week raise, due Monday, as a cost-cutting measure requested by Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC, which owns the Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

THE Age's editor-in-chief, Andrew Jaspan, has been removed from his position less than 24 hours after the newspaper's owner, Fairfax Media, announced 550 job losses.

Detroit Free Press Executive Editor Caesar Andrews plans to take a voluntary buyout and leave the newspaper later this year.

FAIRFAX Media, owner of The Age , is to cut 550 jobs because of a pessimistic economic outlook, drawing criticism that it could undermine its journalism.

The Advocate, one of the country's oldest biweekly gay publications, will go monthly beginning in January, its new editor said Thursday, August 21.

Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 10:11 am Press Release: United Nations The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the assassination of a senior Nigerian newspaper ...

Wayne Stewart, the managing editor of The Topeka Capital-Journal, has died. He was 57.

Maricarrol Kueter, a South Dakota native who has been managing editor of the Argus Leader, was named executive editor of the newspaper moments ago.

The Chicago Tribune on Friday laid off more than 40 newsroom employees -- twice the number many people had expected -- as part of the Tribune Co.'s plan to cut $8.8 million in salaries and benefits at the ...

The Modesto Bee offered buyouts Monday to all its full-time employees. The announcement comes four days after The McClatchy Company, which owns The Bee and 29 other daily newspapers, announced a companywide ...

The editor of the El Paso Times has stepped down, officials at the newspaper announced Tuesday.

The Rockford Register Star today announced it laid off 13 full- or part-time employees after eliminating those positions.

The Buffalo News announced today it will offer voluntary resignation incentives to about 10 percent of its workforce in an attempt to reduce operating expenses.

Caltech alum Eddy Hartenstein, 57, has been a Times reader since his boyhood in Alhambra.

In a memo to staffers this morning, St. Petersburg Times editor, CEO and hairman Paul Tash tells staffers that strong response to the company's early retirement incentives means "we can avoid the general ...

Ten newspapers in central Ohio, including the Mansfield News Journal, Bucyrus Telegraph Forum and the Marion Star, all may see job cuts after its parent boss, The Gannett Company, announced it is eliminating ...

One awkwardly rapping local television reporter might be written off as a crackpot.

Lewis Lapham 's forthcoming Harper's column on Tim Russert is not entirely unexpected, given the cranky literary liberal's public pronouncements on the late host of Meet The Press .

NEW YORK The Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News are in talks to share some feature-section production and design efforts, according to Chronicle Publisher Jack Sweeney -- who said the move could ...