NewsCorp president Chase Carey said the company could boost its share price by downplaying their newspaper properties, reports Forbes’ Mixed Media Blog.

“We’re overly identified with the publishing business,” Carey said. “Some of the concerns that exist around publishing, we get widely associated with….The publishing business has had too wide a profile.”

Investigative newsroom ProPublica and the NYU Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism announced a new joint venture today called “The Explainer,” reports FishbowlNY.

“The Explainer” will provide background information on topics in the news.  Graduate students will be writing and editing the explainer site, explainer.net, with the help of ProPublica editors, Read More