Washington Post struggles through tough 2Q

The Washington Post Co., already struggling with weakness in the newspaper industry, got an even bigger headache from its Kaplan education division in the second quarter. A U.S. government scrutiny of enrollment practices at for-profit colleges such as Kaplan was the main reason the Post Co.’s earnings for the period fell 50 percent from a year ago. The results announced Friday evidently weren’t as bad as investors feared because the company’s stock increased $22.84, or more than 6 percent, to $391.06 as the broader market rallied in Friday’s afternoon volatile trading. The troubles in the Kaplan division represent a potentially daunting new problem for a company trying to reverse a deep revenue slide in a publishing division anchored by The Washington Post.

Shock as TV records Mubarak in a cage

Story at CBC.ca

Online ad revenue exceeds print in Canada

Online advertising revenues have surpassed those of newspapers in Canada and are expected to grow further in the coming years, according to a study published Tuesday. The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB) said online ad revenues exceeded expectations to rise by 23 percent to Can$2.23 billion ($2.32 billion) in 2010, making them second only to television in terms of media ad revenue. AFP

Australia Uses YouTube To Deter Boatpeople

Australia will film boat people being sent to Malaysia under a new refugee swap deal and post the video on YouTube in an effort to deter future boatpeople, the immigration department said on Tuesday. Story is linked off headline above. The Huffington Post Canada

Fog of War challenges view of WWII censors

A new book -- The Fog of War -- challenges the view that censorship is always contrary to the public good. Conditions were very different from today. The book reveals that press censorship in Canada during the Second World War was a force for the right to know. Wartime newspapers, it is said, were timid and supine, content to re-print government-approved handouts to fill columns about the war against the Axis powers. Here.