The legalization of marijuana for medical purposes may have some benefits, but no one likely predicted it would be used to market a sushi restaurant. The New York Times reports.

The decline in U.S. newspaper circulation is accelerating as the industry continues to struggle with reader defections to the Internet and tumbling ad revenue.

Time WarnerInc's magazine division Time Inc plans another round of job cuts as advertising declines erode revenue, a source familiar with the unit said on Thursday.

The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs — about 8 percent of the total — by year’s end, offering buyouts to union and nonunion employees, and resorting to layoffs if it cannot get enough people to leave voluntarily, the paper announced on Monday.

Bloomberg, the financial news and data provider, said Tuesday it has reached an agreement to purchase BusinessWeek magazine from McGraw-Hill for an undisclosed sum.

Gourmet, the nation's oldest food magazine, is closing.

The father of the late "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert has died in Buffalo, NY. He was 85.  The family of Timothy J. Russert Sr. issued a statement saying he died Thursday of natural causes.

Despite growing concerns of a collapse in the commercial realty market, the Observer Media Group owner and publisher Jared Kushner is launching a commercial real estate newspaper: The Commercial Observer.

The dream of quitting the day job and making a living from blog revenue has proved to be far-fetched for most bloggers. But a few entrepreneurs have found success in blog networks.

The writers' grievances came in the form of angry letters, carried over bumpy rural roads to the newspaper office serving the Amish community.

President Obama said Sunday he's confident his drive to overhaul health care will succeed. The president writes in Sunday's New York Times about "health insurance reform" and says his attempt to overhaul the system is closer to reality "than we have ever been."

Just as newspapers have begun to sell ads on the front pages of sections, magazines are selling space on or inside front covers.

Wikipedia is engulfed in a furious debate with psychologists who are angry that the online encyclopedia has reproduced the 10 original Rorschach plates online, for free.

Twitter posts are pointless, ads don’t work and music should be free. These are some of the striking claims making waves among media executives and investors from the pen of a 15-year-old intern at Morgan Stanley.

From the kiss-up to the back-stabber to the guy who calls out sick every Monday, every office has its share of crummy characters. A new book by Marc Hershon and Jonathon Littman, "I Hate People," wants to help stressed-out workers overcome those problem colleagues.