Pittsburgh Magazine names new editor
Cindi Lash has been named the new editor of Pittsburgh Magazine. A regional editor for AOL/Patch.com in the Pittsburgh area since 2010, Lash was the Sunday Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before...
View ArticleMurdoch’s Sun tabloid to go behind paywall in Britain
Britain's top-selling newspaper The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, is to start charging readers for access to its website, a spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday.The announcement comes a day after another...
View ArticleBanks reopen cautiously in Cyprus
Authorities in Cyprus said they would maintain tight control on money transfers as the banks reopened on Thursday after nearly two weeks. Banks were shut down for a routine holiday, but officials kept...
View ArticleApple aims to win over video editors
The redesign of Final Cut Pro editing software was met with derision in 2011. Now, after seven updates to the product, Apple is launching a marketing effort for its Final Cut Pro ...
View ArticleRiverside Calif. withdraws Dorner reward
Riverside, Calif., officials said the city withdrew its $100,000 reward in the case of a murder suspect who died after leading police on a 10-day manhunt. A $1 million reward was offered for the arrest...
View ArticleMuslim homes ransacked in Myanmar
More than 100 homes belonging to Muslims in central Myanmar were raided during sectarian violence, a local police official said. Anti-Muslim riots spread to Muslim townships of Monyo and Padigon, about...
View ArticleAt The Wall Street Journal a smartphone app has reporters on board for...
platform for video , Downing heard a death knell -- one he's been expecting for some time. We are, after all, as he says, on the precipice of ';the rise of the visual web.'; Downing has a dog in this...
View ArticleMore People Have Cell Phones Than Toilets U.N. Study Shows
by: Yue Wang | TIME On the eve of World Water Day last week, the U.N. offered a sobering statistic: according to its recent study, more people on earth have access to cell phones than toilets. Out of...
View ArticleNews Corp Rides Bull Market Despite Ratings Dip
by: Leon Lazaroff | The Street NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Bull markets are by nature confounding: reality mostly trails expectations, and a market in near constant escalation begs asking whether things...
View ArticlePress freedom a tug of war not the end of 300 years of liberty | Michael White
Press freedom - members of the Hacked Off campaign reveal how many people have signed the petition for a free but accountable press. Photograph: AFP/Getty ...
View ArticleLetter to the editor in Nanaimo sparks outrage
3/28/2013 A letter to the editor published in the Nanaimo Daily newspaper has gone viral on social media as people express shock over what is being called a racist diatribe. The title sets the tone...
View ArticleBlast fails to interrupt Thai peace talks
Local security forces were killed and wounded in a blast in southern Thailand Thursday as peace talks with Muslim insurgents began in Malaysia, officials say. The violence failed to stop the talks in...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch Advised to Quit Twitter by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
by: Stephen Lepitak | The Drum New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has revealed that he advised News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch to quit Twitter. According to a report by Yahoo! News, Bloomberg...
View ArticleRebekah Brooks to visit Australia at same time as Rupert Murdoch
She has spent the past year fighting charges related to the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, but before she goes on trial in September Rebekah Brooks is reportedly nipping down ...
View ArticleRwanda - Rwandan editors jail sentence upheld on appeal
An appellate court judge in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Monday upheld the criminal conviction of an editor who is serving a one-year prison sentence in connection with an opinion column, according...
View ArticleCoast Guard refers Shell to Justice Dept.
Shell Oil 's failed 2012 Arctic drilling efforts. At a hearing in Anchorage, Alaska, Rear Admiral Thomas Ostebo and Shell Alaska Vice President Pete Slaiby both said it would be inappropriate to...
View ArticleGlitch in Wisconsin triple-slay plea
A Wisconsin judge ordered the defendant in a triple-homicide case to return to court Thursday after an expected guilty plea failed to materialize. Aaron Schaffhausen, 35, of Minot, N.D., apparently...
View ArticlePriest in 1980s pedophilia scandal dies
A former Roman Catholic priest convicted in a child-molestation scandal in Oregon died at the age of 87, the Portland archdiocese said this week. Thomas Laughlin died March 1 in Omaha, Neb., where he...
View ArticleNavy 33 hunger strikers at Guantanamo
An American Flag is seen through razor wire at Camp VI in Camp Delta where detainees are housed at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on July 8, 2010. UPI/Roger L. ...
View ArticleSale of Journal Register newspapers moves forward after second bankruptcy
The New Haven Register is Journal Register Company's flagship newspaper. (Adrienne LaFrance/Digital First Media)A federal judge has approved the sale of newspaper group Journal Register Company after...
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