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The number of swine flu cases here has increased, and more are expected to emerge. Mayor Bloomberg says the total number of people with swine flu has risen, from eight to 20.

Bloomberg says 17 more cases are suspected. All those confirmed and probable cases are among students at a private ...

When Columbia University announces the winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes later today, online news organizations may be among the recipients of what many consider the highest honor in American print journalism. For the first time, the prizes will include Web sites that produce original news ...

When Columbia University announces the winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes later today, online news organizations may be among the recipients of what many consider the highest honor in American print journalism.

REPORTER: For the first time, the prizes will include Web sites that produce original news reporting.

Sig Gissler is the ...

The publisher emeritus of the New York Amsterdam News has died. The Harlem newspaper announced that Wilbert Tatum died Wednesday evening at a hospital in Croatia, where he was vacationing with his wife Susan. Tatum, who was diabetic, died after multiple organ shutdown, according to his daughter Elinor Tatum, who ...

Bloggers, Facebookers and Twitterers are assessing the state of the New York blogosphere.

Some say their balance sheets are are suffering. But panelist Nicholas Carlson of www.businessinsider.com points to the web site Mashable.com as an example of how new media can prosper. He says ad revenue may be way ...

Governor Paterson's proposal to tax web downloads of music and software four percent would apply to internet porn, and some people aren't happy about it.

The chairman of New York's conservative party said taxing porn legitimizes it. Meanwhile, since the tax would only apply to businesses based in New York State, ...

David Denby, the pointed but never snarky film critic for The New Yorker, talks about his new book Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation. Denby and Lehrer review some well-known quips and ask "Is This Snark?"

Want more? You ...

Flight Attendant Donna Dent speaks at a press conference with Flight Attendant Sheila Dail, Flight Attendant Doreen Welsh, First Officer Jeffrey Skiles, Mayor Bloomberg and Pilot Chesley B. Sullenberger of US Airways Flight 1549, after being presented with keys to the city. (Getty)

This time the three flight attendants, pilot and co-pilot were given a key to the city. The second they stepped into the packed room the flashes and clicks started and never stopped. Photographers and camera men yelled at each other and even the mayor requested that the 'stills get down'.

A city hall press aide remarked it's the craziest she's seen it - even crazier than when J-Lo appeared in the same room.

Children have scores of options on television. So for a new show to generate attention, it has to be something special. The Sesame Workshop is remaking an old favorite, hoping it'll appeal to a new generation, and improve the country's lagging literacy rates. WNYC's Jenna Flanagan reports.

For several years, book publishers, newspapers and magazines have struggled to stay profitable. Now it looks like they are losing that struggle. Publisher Houghton Mifflin has stopped buying manuscripts. The Tribune Company has filed for bankruptcy. And the mighty New York Times is so squeezed it’s taking out a big ...

NPR News announced it would drop Day to Day and News and Notes to help erase a budget shortfall of $23 million. Overall, NPR will cut 7 percent of its workforce and slash expenses further around the company.

Dennis L. Haarsager, NPR's interim president and CEO said the public radio giant ...

ELMO: Hi everybody, I'm so excited for Elmo's neighborhood Sesame Street to grow.

REPORTER: Sesame Street's Elmo yesterday helped Mayor Bloomberg break ground on a 40,000-foot expansion of the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. City and state officials say a 35 percent tax credit for film shoots has generated a billion ...

New York radio could be changed forever. That's the warning from politicians and industry execs now that the "Personal People Meters" have debuted in New York. The small electronic devices are carried by a select group of people and can sense what radio stations they're listening to. The PPMs replace ...

People gathered in groups large and small to watch the Palin-Biden showdown last night.

Twenty-six-year-old Paul Banister thought Sarah Palin held her own.

PALIN: I actually think she didn't have a lot of specifics but she didn't fail. I had a lot of people texting me, saying, "Oh, this is terrible." But ...