The financially troubled non-profit Freedom Forum paid CEO James Duff $1.6 million during his first four months on the job in 2011, a year when the Newseum's operator ran a $47 million deficit, newly released public documents show. The disclosure comes with fresh warnings of financial trouble. Wednesday, Freedom Forum laid off 20 percent of approximately 150 employees at the Washington museum and other programs financed by the foundation. These are just the latest cuts since the museum opened in new quarters in 2008 that cost nearly double the original $250 million construction estimate.

We have a right to expect that the Federal Communications Commission will promote the vitality and diversity of our information infrastructure, starting by upholding the common-sense cross-ownership restrictions, writes Seattle Times guest columnist and former FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps.

After it published a map of handgun owners in two suburban New York counties, the Journal News may be the nation's most terrifying place to work, Adam Martin writes. Threatening notes and harassment have targeted everyone from Gracia C. Martore, the CEO of the Journal News's parent company Gannett, all the way down to the part-timers who write "wedding anniversary and church potluck announcements," staffers told The New York Times. It's the first account of the specific threats coming into the paper, other than the Journal News's own reporting on the two envelopes full of white powder that have been mailed to the office. When the paper hired armed security guards last week, an editor told police it had received "a large amount of negative correspondence." What an understatement that turns out to be. Art: The controversial map.