Why are billionaire entrepreneurs spending their money purchasing newspapers and magazines that appear to be losing money? A mix of philanthropy, ego and ambition.

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Faces of the five victims led the front page of the Capital Gazette, a day after mayhem broke out in the Maryland newspaper's offices. The accused gunman has a long-held grudge against the paper after a 2011 column about his…

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In a blistering editorial, journalists at the Denver Post sounded the alarm about years of devastating job cuts and took the newspaper’s own hedge fund owners to task, begging to be sold. Amna Nawaz speaks to Chuck Plunkett, editorial page…

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Turkish residents took to the streets of Istanbul Saturday to protest the government takeover of the country's most widely circulated newspaper, Zaman, which is owned by a U.S. cleric critical of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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A number of big name media companies have shed their print divisions in recent days. Publishers including Gannett and the Tribune Company are moving away from the multi-platform model to isolate print ventures from digital and broadcast media. Judy Woodruff…

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Pew Research Center’s 11th State of the News Media report, released Wednesday, looks at these changes and examines consumer, ownership, investment and technology trends of the various news industries over the past year.

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Austin Kleon is a Texas-based poet, writer, cartoonist and designer. He's found a playful way of making poetry from the newspaper. His first book, "Newspaper Blackout," was published this summer.

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For Austin Kleon, an exercise for breaking writer's block developed into a method for creating poetry. Using a marker and a copy of the New York Times, Kleon blacks out words to reveal the ones he likes.

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Now celebrating its 21st year, the Onion has fine published consistently funny -- sometimes caustic -- satire of political figures, the media and social convention.

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Herbert Block, better known as "Herblock," drew his first editorial cartoon in 1929, and over the course of the next seven decades sketched the major events of the second half of the 20th century for the Washington Post.

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