NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch has spent months complaining that Google is ruining the newspaper business, and now he wants to do something about it.

The Kojo Nnamdi Listen to Thursday's WAMU discussion of the state of alternative media. The guests: Mark Jurkowitz of the Project for Excellence in Journalism; former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff ; Richard Karpel of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies; and Washington City Paper editor Erik Wemple .

AAN's executive director and Washington City Paper's editor joined the Project for Excellence in Journalism's Mark Jurkowitz and former Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff on a D.C. public-radio show yesterday for a wide-ranging discussion about how the digital transformation, changing demographics and the recession are affecting alternative media.

Tom Rosenstiel, Director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, discusses the future of journalism at Minnesota Public Radio . Recorded Monday, November 16, 2009.

Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Newton Jan Barry, award-winning author, poet, journalist, and a Veterans for Peace representative, will speak on issues affecting veterans at the Monday, Nov. 23 meeting of the Sussex County Democratic Committee, 7:30 P.M. at the Hampton Diner on Route 206.

With prime time tanking, cable net counts on digital, international biz.

The Planet needs your help. Give to the Fund for Local Reporting! Andrea Lewis, long-time broadcast and print journalist, co-anchor of the KPFA Evening News and host of Pacifica’s Sunday Sedition, died last weekend of an apparent heart attack. She was 52.

Over the weekend, there was a bit of a dust-up between the Associated Press, Sarah Palin, and their respective supporters over the AP’s “fact check” of Palin’s campaign memoir, Going Rogue . Much of the discussion focused on the AP’s decision to put eleven different reporters on the story (for more on this, see here , here , here , and here ). But leaving aside the issue of resource allocation ...

It's been all Palin all the time ever since the former Alaska governor unveiled her memoir on Oprah on Monday. Matthew Continetti of the Weekly Standard comes to Palin's defense in his new book, The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star .