Elephant may recover from virus
Caretakers of a 5-year-old elephant at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore say they are hopeful the pachyderm will recover from a deadly viral infection. Samson, an African elephant, started showing symptoms...
View ArticlePope may be dragged into Falklands dispute
Pope Francis, acclaimed worldwide as a powerful new champion for the world's poor, risks becoming embroiled in Agentina's increasingly strident rhetoric of a sovereignty claim on British Overseas...
View ArticleBoston Phoenix alternative weekly folds
The groundbreaking alternative weekly newspaper the Boston Phoenix ceased publication Thursday, with the publisher saying its losses were not sustainable. "Thank you Boston. Good night and good luck,"...
View ArticleReuters social media editor charged with conspiring with hackers
Updated 7:25 p.m. ET The deputy social media editor of Reuters news service was charged by a district court in California with conspiracy for leaking information about one of his former employers to...
View ArticleJustin Bieber lashes out at the press on Instagram
Justin Bieber recovering after fainting at London concert The 19-year-old star (HE'S 19, he really wants you to know that. HE'S JUST 19, FOLKS!) took to ...
View ArticleCameron pulls the plug on press talks – and sets stage for fight
David Cameron has been skilfully riding two horses - promising both to look after the concerns of the victims and privately reassuring some of his closest media allies that he would not undermine...
View ArticleCameron gambles on MPs vote over press regulation
press regulation and would put his proposals to a vote in the Commons on Monday.The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Thomson Reuters Editor Indicted on Charges of Aiding Hackers Group
Matthew Keys, a 26-year-old deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, has been charged with assisting the hacking collective Anonymous in an attack on the Web site of The Los Angeles Times, the...
View ArticleNews agency editor indicted for aiding hackers
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal grand jury indicted Matthew Keys, deputy social media editor at Reuters.com, of aiding the group Anonymous to hack into Tribune Co. computers. The incident occurred prior to...
View ArticleAPC Nervous INEC Chastises ThisDay Newspaper Threatens Lawsuit
By SaharaReporters, New York The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), suddenly finding itself in front of a runaway train of bad publicity concerning registration of the All Progressives...
View ArticleBritish press talks collapse editor arrested
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron abandoned cross-party talks on press regulation on Thursday as police for the first time arrested a current national newspaper editor over...
View ArticleMcClatchy Buys Analytics Firm Tru Measure
by: NetNewsCheck The McClatchy Co. today announced that it has acquired Crested Butte, Colo.-based media measurement and analytics company Tru Measure. The deal is expected to close by the end of the ...
View ArticleWashPo’s New Native Ads Slippery Slope
by: Meg Heckman | NetNewsCheck Anyone who visited WashingtonPost.com on Tuesday saw a fairly typical mix of home page stories, with one exception: a feature describing how small businesses in West...
View ArticlePrintSource Provides One-Stop Shopping for Design Print Packaging and Delivery
– PrintSource, a division of Trib Total Media, has recently been established to provide daily and weekly newspaper companies with a comprehensive set of services that includes design, print, packaging...
View ArticleDigital Marketing Budgets On The Rise
by: Mark Walsh | MediaPost Annual digital marketing budgets, on average, amounted to 2.5% of a company’s revenue in 2012 and will grow 9% this year. The majority of companies spend between 10% and 50%...
View ArticleSenate OKs requirement that newspapers post notices online
NASHVILLE -- The Senate has approved, 31-1, legislation that will require newspapers to post public notices on their websites as well as in their print editions with no extra charge, starting in April...
View ArticleBodies of mom 2 kids found in Indiana
The bodies of a woman and her two children found in Binford Park in New Albany, Ind., were identified by authorities Thursday. New Albany police Maj. Keith Whitlow said autopsies were performed on the...
View ArticleDisgusting Washington Post editorial says Obama has gotten proper comeuppance...
Washington Post editorial board member Reasonable people can agree that it sucks to not be able to do a tourist activity you were looking forward to, but that it sucks a lot more to have your pay cut....
View ArticleReuters Web editor indicted for conspiring with Anonymous
Years after the Los Angeles Times Web site was supposedly defaced by Anonymous, the U.S. government goes after a former employee who allegedly gave hackers the company's login and ...
View ArticleTech Reporter Charged With Helping Anonymous Hack Newspaper
Federal authorities in California today (March 14) charged a prominent tech journalist with helping Anonymous-affiliated hackers break into the corporate networks of his former employer. Matthew Keys,...
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