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WITH citizen journalists quickly finding their feet on the internet, websites are now looking for ways to pay contributors for their efforts.

Leaders in the news field discuss the future of journalism at Walter Isaacson's panel at the Institute's Ideas Festival in Colorado.

Not Even a Penny for Your Thoughts? Another View of 'Freeconomics' In his new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price , to be released on July 7, Wired editor Chris Andersonsuggests that many businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices.

VETERAN newspaper columnist and editor Frank Devine has died. He was 77 years old.

Katie Price is apparently to tell all about her split from Peter Andre in a "no holds barred" interview with Piers Morgan.

As newspapers across the country struggle through a brutal economic climate, papers in Washington state are getting a tax break.

I saw this late last night and was debating whether to post it as part of my ongoing "No blood in ants" series -- a brutally honest account of one of the recent flurry of journalism summits where the sound and fury signifies nothing.

In this April 25, 2009 file photo, a Afghan farmer collects resin from poppies in opium poppy fields in Nawa district of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan.

Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. plans to cut 1,400 jobs in the next few weeks, about 3 percent of the work force, as it faces a prolonged slump in advertising revenue.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices.

Jul. 1 - Michael Jackson's sales surge, pushing him to the top of the charts. SOUNDBITE: Nathan Brackett, deputy managing editor, Rolling Stone Bobbi Rebell reports.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 9:02 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 9:02 a.m. Every president tries to manage the press, some have had limited success, but no one has been quite as proficient as Barack Obama, who in his first months has done a masterful job of keeping the Fourth Estate, if it even exists these days, off balance ...

SALEM, Ore. A former newspaper editor has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl he met while teaching at a private school in Salem almost a decade ago.

Jay Rosen calls it "the Froomkin kissoff." Others call it, less colorfully, "l'affaire Froomkin." Many call it politically motivated.

Wikipedia can be a vehicle for tearing down barriers and democratizing information.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines - " Government troops briefly held Tuesday dozens of Filipino journalists who were on fact-finding mission in the strife-torn province of Maguindanao.

A local corruption reporter in Russia died of head injuries on Monday in what police said Tuesday was a drunken fall.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press laid off nine newsroom employees Tuesday, the paper's editor told the staff.

"Check the source" may be the first rule of journalism. But in the coverage of the protests in Iran this month, some news organizations have adopted a different stance: publish first, ask questions later.