September 24, 2025
The U.K.’s newest media baron, Russian billionaire and former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev, is launching a new daily next week. The newspaper, to be called simply i, will be published by Independent Print Ltd, the company Mr. Lebedev bought for $1.57, or one British pound, in March 2010.
Sometime during the week of Oct. 11, the Chinese-language websites of the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal disappeared.
In August, The Telegram & Gazette put up a pay wall. So. How’s that Telegram doing since the wall went up? Just great.
Howard Kurtz, news media reporter at The Washington Post, left the newspaper in October to become Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast, the news reporting and opinion website founded and published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Kurtz continues as host of the Sunday CNN media program “Reliable Sources.” Kurtz, 57, spent 29 years with The Washington Post.
Guernica magazine celebrated six years of award-winning coverage of international art and politics by throwing a birthday party on Thursday, October 14. OPC board member Joel Whitney is the founding editor of Guernica.
The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four courageous journalists with its 2010 International Press Freedom Awards at a ceremony in November. Dawit Kebede of Ethiopia, Nadira Isayeva of Russia, Laureano Márquez of Venezuela, and Mohammad Davari of Iran have risked their freedom and security to report the truth as they see it in their countries.
Finalists for the 2010 Online Journalism Awards were announced this week by the Online News Association. OPC Board Member Travis Fox was on the Frontline team that created “Law and Disorder” and has been nominated for the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism.
A Ukrainian television station, which had its broadcast frequencies canceled after a court found in favor of allegations of irregularities in the manner in which the stations were awarded their licenses, has decided to defy the court ruling and continue its terrestrial broadcasts.
The lastest in the revolving door that Newsweek has become since Sidney Harman purchased the magazine is Lally Weymouth, a special diplomatic correspondent at Newsweek, will join The Washington Post later this month as a senior associate editor.
Anne Raver in The New York Times writes about how she fends off weeds in her garden with newspapers.
