One of the worst parts of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was its ridiculous secrecy, under which it was easy for negotiators and industry reps to see draft text, but impossible for the public to do so except through leaks. Thankfully, those leaks showed just how bad ACTA was going to be for the Internet, and public pressure helped remove the worst provisions. But the basic approach to doing deals didn't die, and it's back again.

The Bay Citizen is considering a potential merger, according to people involved in the discussions, a move that could see the publication absorbed by an older but similar nonprofit news organization in Berkeley, and raising questions about whether the founding patron's vision for a revitalization of Bay Area news reporting can survive him.

In a blog post at her eponymous website, Arianna Huffington has provided some numbers that describe the growth of the news network over the past year -- a year that coincided with its acquisition by AOL for $315 million -- and more than a few of them are eye-popping. At a time when some newspaper websites are happy to get page views in the tens of millions in a month, The Huffington Post racked up more than a billion page views in December.

A report released last week by Free Press contending television broadcasters will reap nearly $3 billion in revenue from political advertising this year without fully disclosing to the public where that money comes from has drawn a sharp rebuke from the NAB.

Today marks a milestone for Facebook. Originally launched in 2004 as a site for Harvard students to connect online, the social networking giant is now celebrating its eighth anniversary, just weeks after launching its new 'timeline' interface, the feature referred to by countless journalists as a social media 'gamechanger.'

Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires.

Last fall, while television news outlets were largely ignoring the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act during their evening news and opinion programming, their parent companies were busy paying an army of lobbyists to influence Congress on the then-pending legislation.

In a rather troubling move, it appears that the leadership of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment had a documentary filmmaker arrested on Congressional property for daring to try to film a hearing that was taking place on the subject of "fracking" -- an issue for which this filmmaker, Josh Fox, is well known for covering in his documentary Gasland.

A new report takes a deep look into the way journalists deal with copyright issues, which can affect not only their own careers, but journalism as a whole. The report draws conclusions from interviews with 80 journalists who have been working in the field for at least five years.

Unsolicited spam emails from petition website change.org forced Arizona State University to block access as well as outbound emails to the site, university officials said.