A new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists shows the new challenges they face around the world. CPJ's annual report, along with the many additional surveys available on its website, provide unusually valuable insight into the organization's work: monitoring the role of journalism and defending the rights of journalists wherever unrest spreads.

According to a new study, the overall social and emotional climate of social networking sites is a very positive one where adult users get personal rewards and satisfactions at far higher levels than they encounter anti-social people or have ill consequences from their encounters.

Public interest groups have waged a spirited campaign to prevent a corporate takeover of the Internet.

At their best, journalists tell our stories and cover our communities with depth, care and a critical eye. When it comes to the future of journalism, we are all in this together. Journalists with laptops, freelancers with cameras, ordinary people with cellphones — we all need to be able to speak freely. The First Amendment does not apply only to journalists. It applies to all Americans, and we all have to take responsibility when it is threatened or eroded.

Google is likely to get the green light from European and U.S. regulators as early as next week for its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, but the company will likely face continued scrutiny over what's seen as a lax pledge to license key smartphone patents.

It's easy to frame the fight over SOPA and PIPA as Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley but it's absolutely wrong. The bills are dead, thanks to widespread protest. But the real architects of the bills' defeat don't have a catchy label or a recognized lobbying group. They don't have the glamour or the deep pockets of the studios. Yet they are the largest, most powerful and most important voice in the debate — and, until recently, they've been all but invisible to Congress. They are you.

Major music labels' efforts to combat piracy are often draconian: threatening tens of thousands of people with lawsuits claiming obscenely high damages; attempting to coordinate their threats with consumers' ISPs; and, most recently, supporting legislation like SOPA and PIPA. Which is why it was shocking to see VEVO, a property jointly owned by some of the biggest record labels in the world, showing a pirated stream of an ESPN football game at its Sundance PowerStation venue last month -- on no fewer than two televisions, and a pair of laptops.

The Guardian's editor-in-chief is to take a voluntary pay cut of 10 percent, and ask the publisher of the newspaper to halve the annual contribution it makes to his pension. The editor's action comes as the newspapers have been engaged in a string of measures to trim costs and raise revenues, including a decision to stop printing overseas, incorporate standalone sections into the main newspaper and raise the cover price during the week.

Gannett is offering buyouts to anyone in its Community Publishing division who is over 56 and has 20 years of service at the company. As a reminder of how huge Gannett is, that applies to 785 people, but Gannett is going to accept 'only" up to 665 employees, split among Gannett's properties.

Last year, AT&T warned smartphone customers with unlimited data plans that it may temporarily reduce their Internet connection speeds if they were in the "top 5 percent" of heaviest data users. Only recently have some customers begun receiving notifications about their data connections being slowed down, and AT&T claims that it isn't as bad as it seems.