Politico is launching a free, bi-monthly print magazine, as well as a new "Politico Magazine" section of its website that will be updated daily. The editor, Susan Glasser, was formerly editor in chief at Foreign Policy.
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Jim Roberts, a former New York Times editor and Reuters executive, is joining Mashable as executive editor, and says he wants to expand the kinds of journalism the site does while taking advantage of its social-web skills
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HarperCollins has begun selling some ebooks directly, starting with titles by C.S. Lewis. These are DRM-protected EPUB files, so if you want a Kindle version you'll have to buy through Amazon.
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Barnes & Noble released its new e-reader, the $119 Nook GlowLight, Wednesday. It's in stores and for sale on BN.com now. The biggest difference between it and the Kindle Paperwhite is that the GlowLight has 4 GB of built-in storage instead of 2 GB.
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Twitter launched a new feature that adds images and video previews to a user's timeline automatically, a move that is clearly designed to appeal to advertisers -- but will it wind up irritating more users than it attracts?
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A study of 18 non-profit news organizations done by the Knight Foundation shows that success in the non-profit sector involves many of the same strategies that for-profit media outlets should also be pursuing
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Cook's Illustrated fans, rejoice: America's Test Kitchen is now bundling access to all three of its websites -- and unifying search across them -- for $69.95 per year.
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Amazon officially rolled out Kindle MatchBook on Tuesday. The program lets publishers and authors bundle print book purchases with discounted ebook editions.
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In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, an author complained about repeatedly being asked to write for free, but what he finds so insulting is something many others see as an opportunity -- and it is not going away any time soon
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Showtime hit Dexter, which recently wrapped its eighth and final season, is coming to Netflix Watch Instantly. The first four seasons of the show will be available October 1; seasons five through eight will start streaming January 1, 2014.
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Is objectivity in journalism an outdated concept that has been replaced by transparency and disclosure, or is that a recipe for unbalanced coverage? Glenn Greenwald and the NYT's Bill Keller debated that question
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After an uproar broke out in the U.K. over self-published rape and incest porn for sale on ebook sites, Kobo removed self-published titles from its U.K. site for two weeks while it reviewed them. Now the company has explained its policy going forward.
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