Times Names New Editors for Politics and Metro Desk

The New York Times named Carolyn Ryan, its metropolitan editor, the paper’s top political editor. She will be succeeded by one of her deputies, Wendell Jamieson.

    

Times-Picayune Plans a New Print Tabloid

Last May, the newspaper’s owners, Advance Publications, announced it would cut back printing of The Times-Picayune and would make major cuts to the newsroom.

    

Digital Subscriptions Bolster Newspapers’ Slipping Circulation Figures

The New York Times overtook USA Today for second place, after The Wall Street Journal, with total circulation up 17.6 percent.

    

The New York Times Company Reports a Drop in Profit

The company also announced plans to introduce lower-cost subscription models as part of a broader growth strategy.

    

Koch Brothers Making Play for Tribune’s Newspapers

Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, are exploring a bid to buy the Tribune Company’s eight regional newspapers.

    

Al Neuharth, Executive Who Built Gannett and USA Today, Is Dead at 89

Mr. Neuharth’s business model, characterized by stripped-down costs and generous margins, reshaped the industry, tilting the balance between profits and public service.

    

Tale of China’s Leader in a Taxicab Is Retracted

A Hong Kong newspaper admitted that a story that was almost too good to be true was, in fact, not.

    

McCandlish Phillips, Times Reporter, Dies at 85

Mr. Phillips, associated with The Times for more than 20 years, wrote a 1965 exposé of a man in Queens with an Orthodox Jewish background who was a senior Ku Klux Klan official.

    

Cleveland Paper to Curtail Delivery and Cut Staff

The Plain Dealer, owned by Advance Publications, will trim home delivery to three days a week and lay off 53 newsroom employees.

Papers Worldwide Embrace Web Subscriptions

Online advertising, once seen as the great hope for the future, has begun leveling off, which is accelerating the push for new Internet business models.

Japan Times Reaches Deal With Times Co.

The agreement creates a combined print edition, in which each publication will comprise one section. It will be distributed Monday through Saturday.

World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Newspapers Protest New Press Rules

An array of newspapers protested a new press code on Tuesday that empowers a press watchdog to investigate abuses, order corrections and levy steep fines for misbehavior.

British Newspapers Challenge New Press Rules

An array of newspapers protested on Tuesday against the attempt to impose stricter curbs on this country’s scoop-driven dailies, calling potential fines a “crippling burden.”

Media Decoder Blog: Washington Post Says Pay Model Will Start This Summer

The Post is joining hundreds of other newspapers in asking its readers to pay a fee for access to its Web site

U.S. Looked at Bribery Claims Involving Wall Street Journal

The investigation of The Wall Street Journal coincides with a broader search the government is conducting of News Corporation over a phone-hacking scandal in 2011.

Media Decoder: Editor Charged With Aiding Hackers Group

Matthew Keys, a 26-year-old social media editor, was charged with assisting the hacking collective Anonymous in an attack on The Los Angeles Times Web site.

Media Decoder Blog: Boston Phoenix to Cease Publication

The weekly newspaper failed to attract sufficient advertising to continue publishing.

British Talks on Press Regulation Break Down

Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Thursday that he would pursue his own proposal for a system of self-regulation after months of inquiries into a phone-hacking scandal.

Lebanon Paper Launches Salvo Against Hariri Tribunal

A newspaper has published the names of likely witnesses in the murder trial of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister who was assassinated in 2005.

Media Decoder Blog: News Corp. Will Provide $2.6 Billion to Its New Publishing Company

The new company, which will consist of more than 100 newspapers, will have a big cash safety net and no debt when it separates from the entertainment part of News Corporation.