Iran's press watchdog has warned 17 publications, including a leading reformist daily, accusing them of having breached media regulations, Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday. Mohammad Ali Ramin, a watchdog official and deputy culture and Islamic guidance minister, said the publications were "not committed to journalistic duties, breached media regulations, printed superficial materials and propagated materialism." The leading reformist ...

Complaints to the Better Business Bureau were up nearly 10 percent last year, with the banking industry seeing the biggest jump in unhappy customers. Complaints about banks spiked 42 percent to 29,920 in 2009, according to the annual report released Monday by the BBB. That ...

(pound sign)wanttospinWHreporters? If you're PressSec — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' username on Twitter — you join the powerful social media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time. Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of President Barack Obama's ...

Stay tuned for more fee disputes threatening local television stations on cable TV lineups. Broadcasters hurt by declining ad revenue are demanding more fees from cable and other subscription TV providers to carry the stations. The providers are resisting, and in the latest tussle, Cablevision Systems Corp ...