The Santa Barbara News-Press newspaper, owned by the eccentric Wendy P. McCaw, ran an un-bylined story accusing former editor Jerry Roberts, who resigned last year, of having kiddie porn on his work computer.

From the NYT:

The Tribune Company is expected to announce staffing reductions as early as today at its flagship Chicago Tribune as well as its largest-circulation newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, as revenue in the newspaper industry declines.

While no official announcement had been made about the cuts, reports in both newspapers late last week, citing informants they did not identify, said they were imminent and would be carried out mostly through voluntary buyout packages.

Advertising executive and entrepreneur Brian P. Tierney bought the Philadelphia Inquirer nine months ago. Many readers are impressed, but employees are paying the price, and accommodating advertisers has become a bit easier under the new regime.

From Yahoo! News:

Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.

So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages.

Fitzgerald said he wanted to "be there," for anyone who needed to talk. "I never met you, but I do care," a spiky-haired Fitzgerald said into the camera on his YouTube posting.

He planned to take and return as many calls he could, but on Monday at 5 a.m., his T-Mobile cell phone payment will begin charging him for his generosity when he is no longer eligible for free weekend minutes.

"I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do about it," he said. "Come Monday, no way I'm going to just hang up on people and say, 'I don't have the minutes.'"

Strangely (or not so strangely), I can't find the video on YouTube. At the Boston.com website, a search on 'YouTube' found no reference to Fitzgerald. The one story I saw posted was from AP. Very odd.

If you do have a link, please shoot it over. Right now, I'm wondering about this story.

* C'mon, children of the 1970s: Name the song and group that inspired my headline! :)

A strange development: Le Journal de Quebec, a paper that's reportedly known labour peace since 1967, finds 140 unionized staff locked out by Sun Media. And why? Apparently to force adaptation to the changing multimedia world.