Herb Kaplow, Voice of ABC and NBC News, Dies at 86

Mr. Kaplow’s resonant voice and craggy face were familiar to generations of viewers of the nightly news broadcast.

    

Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?

When the Sunil Tripathi rumor went viral after the Boston Marathon bombing, it laid bare the dysfunctional codependence between new and old media.

    

ABC News Dethrones NBC in Crucial Ratings Race

“World News With Diane Sawyer” beat “NBC News With Brian Williams” among viewers age 25 to 54 last week, ABC’s first victory in the category since 2008.

    

CNN to Produce Documentary on Hillary Clinton

Two days earlier, NBC said it would make a four-hour mini-series on Ms. Clinton

    

An Afghan Media Mogul, Pushing Boundaries

Saad Mohseni has brought soap operas, sitcoms and reality TV to his native country, Afghanistan, and with them a modicum of normalcy. Now he is looking to expand to Egypt, Libya and Iraq.

    

Hamas Closes News Media Outlets

Hamas closed news media offices and a television production company for what it called the spreading of false reports and working for Israeli television.

    

World Briefing | Europe: Turkey: 72 Journalists Forced Out for Covering Protests, Union Says

The main opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of cowing local news media into self-censorship.

    

Nonpartisan Fact-Checking Comes to South Africa

A fledging Web site seeks to offer South Africa the kind of journalistic fact-checking that is a fixture in America with sites like FactCheck.org.

    

Fox Viewers May Be Graying, but Their Passion Still Pays

The median age of a Fox News viewer is over 65, which could be a cause for concern given that advertisers aim for the 25-to-54 age bracket.

    

ABC Veteran Is Al Jazeera America’s New Leader

Kate O’Brian, who spent 30 years working for ABC, has been named president of the forthcoming international news channel financed by the emir of Qatar.

    

The Public Editor: Making Sense of a Sensational Case

The Times has made up for a slow start on the Trayvon Martin story.

    

Helen Thomas | 1920-2013: 50 Years of Tough Questions and ‘Thank You, Mr. President’

Ms. Thomas covered every president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, but her career ended ignominiously over remarks she made about Israeli Jews.

    

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff

The statistician who writes the FiveThirtyEight blog for The New York Times is said to be moving that franchise to ESPN.

    

With Contrition in His Voice, Olbermann Returns to ESPN

Mr. Olbermann, a versatile anchor who ended a stormy tenure at the cable giant 16 years ago, said he would host a late-night sports show on ESPN2.

    

Olbermann Will Return to ESPN

The move to bring back Keith Olbermann, a former co-anchor at ESPN, was the result of 14 months of intense discussion within the network and its parent, the Walt Disney Company.

    

Zimmerman Verdict Drew 10 Million to Cable TV News

Preliminary ratings show that from 10 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Fox News and CNN each attracted more than three million viewers, and MSNBC had about 1.3 million.

    

With a Royal Baby Due, News Outlets Are on High Alert

The birth of the child, whenever it happens — any day now, if the tabloids are to be believed — will be a spectacle unlike any other in the modern media age.

    

Parliament Asks Murdoch to Discuss Hacking

The British Parliament called on Rupert Murdoch to discuss recorded comments he made to journalists and newspaper executives in March about the culture of paying off police.

    

Layhmond Robinson Jr., Who Paved Way for Black Journalists, Dies at 88

Mr. Robinson, one of the first black reporters at The New York Times in the 1950s and a local television news correspondent, inspired the next generation of black journalists.

    

Soldier’s Lawyers Rest Case With a Defense of WikiLeaks’ Journalistic Role

A Harvard law professor testified that WikiLeaks performed a legitimate journalistic function when Pfc. Bradley Manning gave it vast archives of secret government files.