A bankruptcy judge approved Affiliated Media Inc.'s reorganization plan Thursday and freed the publisher of the San Jose Mercury News and 53 other daily newspapers from most of its debt as it tries to boost its sagging revenue. The confirmation of the reorganization plan in Delaware ...

EXITING BANKRUPTCY: Affiliated Media Inc., the holding company for newspaper publisher MediaNews Group, won approval from a U.S. bankruptcy judge for its reorganization plan. That puts the company on track to emerge from Chapter 11 in the coming weeks. NEW OWNERS: The privately held Affiliated will be ...

Australians are more likely to pay for music and movies online than to hand over money to read newspapers on the Internet, a survey released Thursday said. The Nielsen research found that 51 percent of people would consider paying for movies available online but only 28 percent would likely pay to read newspapers on the web. "Consumers' attitudes to paying ...