In another twist in the increasingly nasty dispute over the changes Nielsen Media Research is making in the way it measures television ratings, the Media Rating Council plans to investigate how details of a confidential audit, critical of Nielsen, became public.

If she weren't running one, Shelley Ross doubts she'd watch many television newsmagazines. "The whole genre is tired," said Ross, recently appointed executive producer of ABC's newly rechristened "Primetime Live."

Reporters at the Wall Street Journal will conduct their first-ever byline strike this week in a protest over a contract dispute with parent company Dow Jones & Co, union and company representatives said on Tuesday.

The Postal Rate Commission will hold hearings June 29 and June 30 on a proposal filed earlier this year by a coalition of large commercial publishers that called for a radical revamping of the postal rate structure for periodicals.

Two former Aegis directors who received £735,000 each last November for loss of office, although they resigned, have set up in business again, backed by Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP advertising giant.

When DirecTV said earlier this week that it had sold its stake in the San Jose company, the stock plunged more than 14 percent within hours.

News Corp.'s Fox Sports Net filed a lawsuit late Monday against EchoStar Communications Corp., claiming that the satellite TV distributor owed it at least $25 million in subscription fees for carrying its 12 regional channels.

The bitter battle between rival brewers over the bizarre issue of the royal provenance of carbohydrates may be vanishing, even as the two step up their fight for sales and market share.

This year's Wimbledon tennis championships will be seen in more countries than ever before when the first serve is dished up Monday.

The battle over Nielsen Media Research's plans to modernize the way it measures local television viewership has become far more than the typical industry dispute. It has become a tale of political expedience, uniting a group of longtime Clinton advisers and Democratic politicians with the money of a political rival, Rupert Murdoch, and his News Corporation.