The Media Stories for 2009

TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive 379
The Rise of Machine-Written Journalism 134
Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? 192
Tiger Woods Gives Science Education a Boost 5
Salon.com Editor Looks Back At Paywalls 246
The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism 388
Google May Limit Free News Access 236
Newspapers Face the Prisoner's Dilemma With Google 290
Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works 468
Robbery Suspect Cleared By Facebook Alibi 160
Your Opinion Counts At CNN — But Should It? 383
China Lauds iPhone App That Spreads Gov't Views 158
Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records 244
Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain 1172
Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans 177
Esquire Launches First Augmented Reality Magazine 82
Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches 549
Paywalls To Drive Journalists Away In Addition To Consumers? 131
Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning 227
Journalists Looking For Government Money 323
Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates 420
EFF Launches "Takedown Hall of Shame" 163
Amazon Hobbles Features For International Kindle 166
In the UK, a Few Tweets Restore Freedom of Speech 216
Misadventures In Online Journalism 133
Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content 504
Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier 94
Postmortem for a Dead Newspaper 219
Americans Don't Want Targeted Ads 404
New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books 317
Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties 830
Micropayments For News — Holy Grail Or Delusion? 234
Forkable Linux Radio Ad Now On the Air In Texas 366
News Content As a Resource, Not a Final Product 156
In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science 754
Google Wants To Ease News Browsing With Fast Flip 125
New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected 403
Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites 155
James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" 703
Making an Open Source Project Press-Friendly 169
A Video Ad, In a Paper Magazine 295
Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker 869
Comcast Seeking Control of Both Pipes and Content? 241
The Best and Worst Tech-Book Publishers? 271
Rest In Print, Gaming Journalism 65
Murdoch Demands Kindle Users' Info 433
AOL Picking Up Journalists Shed By Conventional Media 94
Medical Papers By Ghostwriters Pushed Hormone Therapy 289
Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites" 881
Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland 251
Inside the AP's Plan To Security-Wrap Its News Content 138
Free Web Content a "Myth," Claims Barry Diller 294
The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted 144
Traditional News Media Lead Blogs By 2.5 Hours 186
Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey 222
Murdoch Paper Reporters Eavesdropped On Celebrities' Voicemail 186
Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel 523
Google Will Star In New Dow Jones News Model 95
The Hysteria of the Cyber-Warriors 150
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free" 206
Wikipedia Censored To Protect Captive Reporter 414
Fake News Scam Sites Advertising On Real News Sites 128
News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic 387
Dutch Gov. Wants To Tax Online Media To Fund Print 187
Print Subscribers Cry Foul Over WP's Online-Only Story 96
The Newspaper Isn't Dead Yet 108
Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Investigation of MP Expenses 188
Fighting For Downloaders' Hearts and Minds 325
You're (Probably) Not Going To Be a Pro Blogger 120
Anonymous Newspaper Commenters Subpoenaed In Tax Case 394
A.P. To Distribute Nonprofits' Investigative Journalism 56
BT Wants Cash For iPlayer, Video Bandwidth 229
The Perils of Pop Philosophy 484
Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled 499
Electronic Gaming Monthly Coming Back 45
Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls 390
Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology 665
How Comic Fans & Shops Are Stereotyped 387
Wikipedia Launches a New Mobile Interface, Seeks Help 70
Public Notices Going Online, Not In Newspapers 75
Wikipedia Moving From GFDL To Creative Commons License 90
Craigslist Fights Back, Sues SC Atty General 286
Canada Gov't Censors Parliament Hearings On YouTube 192
Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma 188
New York Times Wipes Journalist's Online Corpus 94
Craigslist Kills Erotic Services Ads, Will Launch Adult Section 390
UK "Creative Industries" Call For File-Sharers Ban 211
More Fake Journals From Elsevier 249
News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites 453
Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press 391
Can the New Digital Readers Save the Newspapers? 289
Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal 213
Chicago Tribune Reporters Don't Want Readers' Pre-Approval 176
Treating the Web As an Archive 72
Google Planning To Serve "High Quality News" Passively 72
Developing World Is a Profit Sink For Web Companies 203
Paid Online News Venture Fails To Get Subscribers 126
Copyright Decision In Australia Vindicates 3d-Party EPG Provider 66
Consortium To Share Ad Revenue From Stolen Stories 94
Making a Game of the News 91
In Defense of the Anonymous Commenter 198
Paid Shilling Comes to Twitter 134
Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers 328
AP Says "Share Your Revenue, Or Face Lawsuits" 293
97 of Top 100 Classified Sites Are Craigslist 193
The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink 211
Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News? 322
Investigative Journalism Being Reborn Through the Web? 265
Senator Proposes Nonprofit Status For Newspapers 426
Why TV Lost 576
Google's Struggle To Reach Authors — of Every Book Ever Written 153
Reading the New York Times On a Kindle 2 193
Hearst To Launch E-Reader For Newspapers 143
Japanese "Hate" For the iPhone All a Big Mistake 327
Creative Commons Releases "Zero" License 209
Court Upholds AP "Quasi-Property" Rights On Hot News 169
AP Considers Making Content Require Payment 425
Cory Doctorow Calls Death To Music, Movies, Print 336
Telling Fact From Fantasy In the World of Apple Rumors 91
Tool Shows the Arguments Behind Wikipedia Entries 115
Web of Trust For Scientific Publications 125
Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads 286
Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" 504
U.C. System and Springer Agree To CC-Licensed Journal Articles 54
Lawsuit Stops Headline Scraping 85
Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again 528
Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia 439
What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly 132
Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media 717
Saving Journalism With Flash and Java 206
EGM Magazine Shutting Down 70
Dr. Dobb's Journal Going Web-Only 233
Data Mining Rescues Investigative Journalism 91
Image of Popeye Enters Public Domain In the EU 229
Time Warner/Viacom Rift Healed, Pending Details 75
New York Times Sued Over URL Linking 74