Torstar, Rogers join up on system for online publishers

TORONTO CNW Torstar Digital and Rogers Media today announced a technology joint venture to invest in TOPS, a leading edge, high volume content management system for internet media publishers.

77-year-old Newsweek magazine 'sold for US$1'

NEW YORK - AUDIO equipment magnate Sidney Harman (photo) has agreed to buy loss-making Newsweek from the Washington Post Co in a deal announced on Monday. Early cover (photo) recounts rise of Nazis. Note that name Newsweek was hyphenated then. Harman promised to retain most of the United States weekly's 350 employees and give it a couple of years to reverse losses. Founded in 1933, Newsweek chalked up losses of nearly US$30 million (S$40.5 million) last year and another US$11 million in the first quarter of this year. The Washington Post Co, which bought Newsweek almost 50 years ago, had been looking for a buyer since May. Straits Times and TPG

Katie Couriic forgets the satellite goes everwhere

When will anchors learn that even though they are off air, the satellite is taking them into a zillion video rooms and the digital devil is rolling.

Sirius-XM squeaks out profit in Q2

Satellite radio finds its program of free trials in new cars is beginning to pay off. It posted better-than expected quarterly revenue, citing a sharp jump in subscribers to its pay-radio service and customers' desire for premium programing

Fox, NPR, AP move to better seats at White House

On Sunday, the White House Correspondents Association (WCHA) voted to reconfigure the seating chart for the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House. After columnist Helen Thomas (right in file shot) retired, NPR was one of three organizations that vied for her front-row, center seat, making its case on "audience size, national and international reach, presence at the daily briefings, regular service in the radio pool rotation and on White House travel both domestic and foreign." Ultimately, the WHCA decided to affix an Associated Press placard to it. Fox News will move to the front row — joining CNN, the broadcast networks, and the wire services. NPR will get a new seat in the second row, directly behind the AP. Picture provide a reporter's eye view of the camera gang at work and photograph of Helen Thomas in palmier times. NPR files