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Mail Online, The Daily Mail’s site, has expanded on the news and business sides with offices in New York, and coverage of celebrities in Los Angeles.

Will Bourne, who became editor in chief of The Village Voice in November, and Jessica Lustig, the deputy editor since January, are leaving the weekly publication. They met with the staff at 11 a.m. on Thursday and said that Christine Brennan, executive editor of Voice Media Group, had instructed them to lay off or drastically reduce the roles of five employees on the 20-person staff. Rather than carry out the cuts, they resigned and left immediately.

While advertising continued to fall, The New York Times Company, which is repositioning itself for a digital age, said circulation revenue rose 6.5 percent in the first quarter.

The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes while The Wall Street Journal received an award for commentary. The award for breaking-news reporting was given to the staff of the Denver Post for its coverage of the movie- theater shooting.

The Washington Post confirmed its intention to start charging for access to its website, making it one of the last major American newspapers to do so.

Years of newsroom cutbacks have had a demonstrable impact on the quality of digital, newspaper and television news and in how consumers view that work, a study released Monday found. Nearly one-third of consumers surveyed by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism said they have abandoned a news outlet because it no longer gave them what they had counted on, either with fewer or less complete stories.

The New York Times Co said on Monday that it was changing the name of the International Herald Tribune (IHT) to the International New York Times, putting an end to a 40-year-old brand that served as the hometown paper for Americans living abroad.

The Washington Post Co. reported a fourth quarter 2012 loss of $45.4 million, or $6.57 a share as it took $113 million of charges for goodwill write downs and restructuring, mostly in its Kaplan education subsidiary. A year earlier the company earned $61.7 million or $8.03 a share

The New York Times Company says it plans to sell the Boston Globe and its related assets in order to focus on its namesake newspaper.

New York Times profit tripled in the fourth quarter thanks to one-time items, including the sale of its share in Indeed.com, but the underlying business continued to erode on sharp advertising declines.