Lament over staff and content cutting have been at the center of the media recession. In May, the Chicago Sun-Times fired its entire photo staff, letting go of veterans like Pulitzer Prize-winner John H. White. A month later, the Oregonian ...

Valerie Plesch heads to work inside the Associated Press building and takes the elevator to the 14th floor. Tucked away in a room along a back corridor is the New York bureau of Al Jazeera English.  Plesch, 33, has been ...

New York City mayoral hopeful John Liu made history in 2001 as the first Asian American elected to the City Council in the five boroughs.  After serving eight years, he made more headlines in 2009 as the first Asian American ...

In the late 1990s, Robert Hernandez pitched for the first time the idea of putting audio and photos together to his boss at the San Francisco Examiner. The concept was considered crazy at the time — the word “multimedia” didn’t ...