According to television news legend Walter Cronkite, the term "anchorman" was invented by Sig Mickelson, the first head of the television and radio news department at CBS. It was expressly coined for use at the political conventions of...

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Saparmurat Niyazov, the authoritarian president of energy-rich Turkmenistan who created an elaborate personality cult during more than two decades at the helm of the former Soviet republic, died Thursday, officials said. He was 66.State television showed Niyazov's portrait in a black frame, and a news...

Google Inc. plans to launch software similar to Microsoft Corp.'s popular PowerPoint program as the two companies vie to dominate the online experience.Google Chairman and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt described the software Tuesday at a conference for Internet entrepreneurs. He also blasted Microsoft and AT&T...

Pressures by media companies to generate ever-greater profits are threatening the very freedom the nation was built upon, former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite warned Thursday.In a keynote address at Columbia University, Cronkite said today's journalists face greater challenges than those from his generation. No...

In a Feb. 8 story on media ownership, The Associated Press cited Michael Copps of the Federal Communications Commission as complaining that many local musicians were being pushed aside when "media behemoths" distribute playlists from a central office.The story, which referenced Clear Channel Communications Inc.,...