KYTX Tyler, Texas, had an ace in the hole when two men were arrested in late February following a string of church fires around DMA No. 109. With the CBS affiliate involved in a news and marketing partnership with the Tyler Morning Telegraph daily newspaper, the station gained a big scoop when Telegraph reporter Kenneth Dean landed an interview with suspect Jason Bourque's mother.   Full story

Readers, would you trust a newspaper whose billboards lie? We wouldn't either. Maybe you've seen the billboards. One claimed The Times of Northwest Indiana offers the "only local news in Gary." Another says The Times is "Proud to be Gary's only local newspaper and Web site." You know better. You know the messages are lies, because you know the Post-Tribune hasn't stopped reporting on Gary news for 103 years.   Full story

The entire first page of The Los Angeles Times on Friday was an ad that looked, in part, like the front page of The Los Angeles Times, as the newspaper again tested the accepted limits on where ads can be published and how they can blur the boundary with news.   Full story

Hundreds of employees of Honolulu's two daily newspapers gathered at Washington Middle School yesterday to sort out their options in the face of the proposed purchase of The Advertiser by the rival Star-Bulletin's owner.  Full story

Tribune Co.'s Virginia newspaper plans to outsource the editing and designing of much of its content to the newsroom of its corporate flagship, the Chicago Tribune, in a bid to reduce costs and focus resources on local coverage.  Full story

One of the tests for an informed public advanced by the Knight Commission on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy is: Does the community have at least one high-quality online hub?  Full story

Be careful where you read this newspaper: It might be considered contraband.  Full story

ABC News President David Westin says that news organizations can't invoke the First Amendment unless they have "reporters out in the field doing the work that needs to be done and we have the resources to support them."  Full story

Print doesn't seem to have much of a future, even for an august brand like The New York Times. In fact, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has said he doesn't know how much longer a printed version of the paper will exist and likened the medium to the Titanic.   Full story

An insider at the L.A. Times confirmed that the paper received in the ballpark of $700,000 for the four-page spread that acted as the front page.  Full story