IAC chairman Barry Diller said Wednesday that longtime news magazine Newsweek, which ended its print publication last year in favor of digital, was back on the auction block. "Yeah, we'd like to," Diller said during an AllThingsD conference interview when asked whether IAC was trying to sell Newsweek. "I want to get back to focusing on The Daily Beast, because I think The Daily Beast has an unlimited future and it is how we started," he continued. "I got seduced into Newsweek."

TORONTO - L'actualite won a leading six gold prizes at the 36th National Magazine Awards on Friday night, while The Grid picked up five golds and The Walrus won four. Gold, silver and honourable mention prizes were presented in 47 categories at the ceremony, hosted by Canadian actor Zaib Shaikh. The magazine of the year prize went to Corporate Knights, a publication which looks at sustainable businesses. Honourable Mention for Magazine of the Year was awarded to Cottage Life, UPPERCASE and Urbania. Meanwhile, Canadian House

CHICAGO - The Chicago Sun-Times laid off its entire full-time photography staff Thursday, including a Pulitzer Prize winner, in a move that the newspaper's management said resulted from a need to shift toward more online video. The union representing many of the laid-off photographers plans to file a bad-faith bargaining charge with the National Labor Relations Board, a union leader said.

Germany's Bild daily, the biggest-selling European newspaper, plans to make readers pay for part of its online content from early next month, it said in its Tuesday edition. In what it calls a "freemium model", it will continue to provide free-access news on its popular website Bild.de but also offer premium content packages for subscription fees. Readers who buy its print edition will be able to access the extra online content using a "Day Pass", an individualised code unique to their daily copy.