Newspaper News

In this interview with the Globe & Mail's media reporter, Steve Ladurantaye gives us a taste of what he thinks about branded content in a lead-up to a March 14 Future of Media discussion in Toronto.

Torrance - Two unarmed elderly Asian women delivering newspapers in Torrance early Thursday were shot and wounded by Los Angeles police during a massive manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer suspected in 3 killings.

Worland - A classified ad placed in a Wyoming newspaper by a mother seeking to teach her son a lesson has gone viral through social networking outlets.

New York - A week after coming under fire for a disturbing image and headline on the front page, the New York Post is once again in the middle of a controversy.

A newspaper in Singapore is offering grieving pet owners the opportunity to share their goodbyes to a loved pet in an obituary.

Tallin - In a case of really poor judgment, an Estonian newspaper published an ad for slimming pills, showing exhausted concentration camp torture victims to portray new, slim bodies.

Toronto - During the morning commute on Toronto's Gardiner Expressway Tuesday, a driver took a photograph of Mayor Rob Ford, who was seen both driving his Cadillac Escalade and reading documents. The photo was later posted to Twitter.

The top daily newspaper in Austria has been accused of photoshopping an image of Aleppo in Syria, to make it more dramatic.

Twitter suspended the account of a journalist from The Independent because he tweeted an email address of Gary Zenkel, the President of NBC Olympics. Guy Adams was outraged over NBC's broadcast delay of the Opening Ceremony.

Toronto - Toronto Sun columnist Lorrie Goldstein wrote today, "Kids growing up in poverty without dads are the single greatest future recruitment mechanism for the gangs." He believes "black men impregnate as many willing women as they can."