Mr. Landau called himself a “First Amendment guerrilla,” and used his education as a lawyer in advocacy for journalists around the country.

To those who look at American tabloid culture and say “good riddance,” I say, not so fast.

Eddy W. Hartenstein, a former head of DirecTV, will become publisher of The Los Angeles Times, the newspaper reported.

The flight of advertising dollars to the Internet is one explanation for the pain felt by traditional media. Another culprit that is increasingly to blame is Detroit.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers’ Indonesia bureaus in 2004.

For almost 10 months, the story of John Edwards’s affair remained the nearly exclusive province of the National Enquirer.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. reported that its fourth quarter net profit rose 27 percent and showed strong performance across a number of properties.

In a state with a record of corruption that needs watching, its major newspaper is looking for buyouts from a quarter of the newsroom.

Voter interest in the presidential race may be soaring, but many media companies are struggling to translate coverage into repeat readers and viewers — or revenue.

The weak economy and tight credit market have slowed buying in all sorts of media, but the drop-off is especially pronounced in newspapers.