Campaign Spotlight: 12 Years Later, Americans Are Asked to ‘Take a Day’ for 9/11

As the 12th anniversary of the attacks on World Trade Center nears, a campaign is getting under way to help build awareness for the memorial museum devoted to what happened that day.

    



Campaign Spotlight: Hotel Says ‘G’Day,’ and ‘G’Night,’ With Music-Centric Campaign

A campaign does double duty by promoting the Redbury, a boutique hotel in Los Angeles, and the Rubens, an Australian rock band.

    



Advertising: In Fantasy and Reality, It’s a Frenzy for Football

Football has been crucial to the American advertising-industrial complex, and with the N.F.L.’s kickoff game on Sept. 5, the marketers have been in a huddle.

    



Front Row: A Look at September Fashion Magazines

The latest September issues of the major fashion magazines draw a dissent from a columnist.

    



Times Site Is Disrupted in Attack by Hackers

The site was unavailable to readers Tuesday afternoon, the result of “a malicious external attack.”

    

Remote Control: College Football’s Most Dominant Player? It’s ESPN

Spending billions of dollars for TV rights and becoming partners with universities desperate for exposure, ESPN has emerged as a sport’s puppet-master and kingmaker.

    



American Tells of Odyssey as Prisoner of Syrian Rebels

Matthew Schrier, a photographer, says he was held for seven months by jihadi fighters opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. After being robbed, tortured and accused of being an American spy, he escaped in July.

    

Al Jazeera Makes Limited American Debut

The news channel, which replaced Current TV on Tuesday, lost some viewers when it was dropped by AT&T U-verse and could not be streamed over the Internet.

    



Advertising: An Agency Takes Its Clients’ Wares on the Road for Show and Tell

VP&C, a public relations firm, is doing a marketing tour out of a motor home — fitted out with client merchandise ranging from faucets to dinnerware.

    



Campaign Spotlight: This Pet Food Critic Is as Catty as They Come

The centerpiece for Merrick Pet Care’s new cat food line will be a food blog “written” by W. (Mittens) Bloomfield, an acerbic American Shorthair.

    



Struggling Division at Disney Pins High Hopes on a New Video Game

Disney’s Infinity video game, presented at a recent fan gathering, is viewed as a make-or-break effort to turn around the company’s gaming and Web division.

    



Advertising: Tumi Ads Use Less Famous Faces to Underline Its Accessibility

In an effort to be deemed authentic, the luggage maker’s new campaign will feature less-well-known figures whose accomplishments seem more attainable.

    



The Internet’s Verbal Contrarian

The writer Evgeny Morozov has quickly become the most prominent critic of the utopian promises coming from Silicon Valley.

    



Times Says Web Site Failure Is Not a Result of Cyberattack

Officials said the site was off-line for about two hours during peak traffic hours because of a problem with regular maintenance of the site.

    



Celebrity Weeklies Are Reveling in a Royal Baby, and Sales

After six months of so-so circulation numbers, the birth of Britain’s Prince George has resulted in record readership, in print and online.

    

Technology Industry Extends a Hand to Struggling Print Media

Whether from a sense of obligation, responsibility or guilt, the technology elite has taken up the cause of helping print journalism adapt to change.

    

NBC Buying Web Service to Stream Phone Video

NBC News’s acquisition of Stringwire will allow it to stream live video from the cellphones of witnesses to events into its control rooms in New York.

    

Common Sense: After Post Sale, Spotlight Shines More Intensely on The Times

The New York Times, one of the last of the family-owned newspapers, is optimistic about staying competitive in an increasingly digital world. Should it be?

    

Concert App WillCall Gets a $1.2 Million Investment

The app, which recommends concerts for the hipster crowd, received the investment from some big players in the music industry.

    

Bezos Brings Promise of Innovation to Washington Post

It would not be surprising to see Jeff Bezos worry little about turning a quick profit at The Post and instead try to shake up the newspaper industry.