World Sep 24, 2013

Ex-FBI agent to plead guilty to being AP source

by Mark Sherman

A former FBI explosives expert said Monday he will plead guilty to revealing secret information for an Associated Press story about a U.S. intelligence operation in Yemen in 2012. The story led to a leaks investigation and the seizure of AP phone records in ...

Business Aug 16, 2013

Conrad Black's U.S. legal war ends in $4.1 million fine

Fallen media baron Conrad Black’s last battle with U.S. prosecutors has ended with a $4.1 million fine and a ban on him leading public companies, securities officials said Thursday. Black returned to Canada last year after serving 37 months behind bars in the United ...

Corporate | Focus Aug 7, 2013

Can Amazon's Bezos save the newspaper business?

by Matea Gold and Cecilia Kang

Amazon.com founder Jeffrey Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post promises not just an ownership change for the 135-year-old institution but a potential transformation of the fusty mechanics of the newspaper business. It remains to be seen whether the experiences of an Internet behemoth can ...

Business | Focus Aug 6, 2013

Grahams shepherded Post through tumultuous eight decades

by Robert Barnes and David A. Fahrenthold

It began with a bankruptcy sale in 1933, when a Republican businessman and presidential confidant reinvented himself as a newspaper publisher in the nation’s capital. It ended with an announcement that his descendants had sold the newspaper to an Internet wizard who lives in ...

Corporate | ANALYSIS Aug 6, 2013

Purchase harks back to age of newspaper titans

by Matea Gold

The Graham family’s decision to sell The Washington Post to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos underscores the re-emergence of wealthy individuals at the helm of major metro dailies as newspapers seek a refuge from the battering they have experienced on Wall Street. The news of ...

World Aug 1, 2013

Queen's secret speech for WWIII revealed

British government files from 1983, opened to the public for the first time Wednesday, include an official’s view of the message Queen Elizabeth II would have broadcast to the nation in the event of World War III. The speech was drafted as part of ...

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Jul 15, 2013

Trolls or media watchdogs?: Japan's foreign-born defenders

by Stuart Braun

Have the foreign media got it in for Japan? Do they unduly focus on, and sensationalize, Fukushima radiation leaks, alleged racial intolerance and the self-aggrandizing policy pronouncements of the reborn Liberal Democratic Party?

Corporate Jul 15, 2013

Kochs use Web to slam critical reports

by Paul Farhi

When environmental journalist David Sassoon began reporting about the billionaire Koch brothers’ interests in the Canadian oil industry last year, he sought information from their privately held conglomerate, Koch Industries. The brothers, who have gained prominence in recent years as supporters of and donors ...

World Jul 15, 2013

U.S. envoy arrives as Egypt freezes assets of top Islamists

A senior U.S. official flew to Cairo early Monday, hours after Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists. Undersecretary of State Bill Burns, the first U.S. official to visit since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi, is scheduled to ...