Reuters - The Los Angeles Times will slash 250 jobs, including 150 in the newsroom, and trim its published pages by 15 percent in an effort to save money in the face of declining revenues, the newspaper said on Wednesday.

Reuters - The deteriorating U.S. economy and slumping stock prices will frame discussions among top media and technology executives at the 26th annual Allen & Co confab in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week.

Reuters - New EU competition rules on the collection of royalties have hit a wrong note with top songwriters such as Bee Gee Robin Gibb, who have threatened to pull their songs off the airwaves if they go ahead.

Reuters - Want to buy newspaper stocks? You should see an analyst. Trouble is there aren't many around anymore.

Reuters - Hollywood's latest labor cliffhanger will dangle unsettled for at least several more days.

AP - On-location movie shoots are on the rise in Los Angeles, despite repeated warnings from Hollywood studios that the possibility of an actors strike had stalled moviemaking, a permitting group said Wednesday.

Reuters - Elaborate DVD and Blu-ray Disc editions of "Batman Begins," "Casablanca" and "The Flintstones" top this year's slate of pricey gift sets from Warner Home Video, a category that experienced 26% growth in the past year, according to the studio.

Reuters - With the Olympics just a month away, broadcasters are just as jittery as the athletes who will gather to compete in Beijing.

Reuters - Representatives of Steven Spielberg and the Indian conglomerate Reliance are talking daily about terms of a $1.5 billion proposal that would allow the DreamWorks principal and his partners to produce more than 30 films over the next five years at a new independent studio.

Reuters - Tennis Channel president Ken Solomon was sitting in his office on the grounds of the French Open in Paris six weeks ago when, rifling through some press coverage of the network, he proudly showed a blurb from a story that proclaimed the network "the future of television."

Reuters - Actors' Equity Assn. and the Broadway League have agreed to terms for a new contract covering shows on the Great White Way and national tours.