WASHINGTON -Unfavorable court rulings have the news media facing their most serious challenge in more than three decades over protecting the identities of confidential sources.

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News in particular as "an appendage of the Republican Party."

Iraq war correspondent Lara Logan told Jon Stewart that she'd blow her brains out if she had to watch U.S. television news. Now that she's transferring to Washington, D.C., Jon Friedman suggests 10 news shows Logan should try before she does anything ra

Apparently it’s not enough to employ a “celebrity” news anchor or columnist. You must also seat your celebrity news anchor or columnist next to an actual Hollywood celebrity (C-list will do) at Fête-The-Press-Inside-The-Beltway functions.

News Corp., the global media company run by Rupert Murdoch, won EU approval on Wednesday for its purchase of more than a fifth of Germany's biggest pay television operator, Premiere AG.