April 1 What smarter foreign aid really means and other letters to the editor
The editorial lauding Canada's new aid direction (Toward Better, Smarter Foreign Aid - Focus, March 30) reflects a disturbing ignorance of the history of international assistance.The "modernization"...
View ArticleReport Wall St. directors get big raises
An executive compensation consultation firm said pay for board directors at the largest U.S. banks grew sharply while thousands of bank workers were laid off. Board member pay at the six largest banks...
View ArticlePenalty for Chinese Editor Critical of Korea Stance
BEIJING - A well-known editor of an influential Communist Party journal said Monday that he had been suspended after writing an article for a British newspaper saying that China should abandon its ally...
View ArticleGun in parked car kills Miami girl 4
Miami police said they were trying to determine how a loaded gun got into a parked car where a girl, 4, was shot to death, possibly by a 6-year-old boy. Rahquel Carr was sitting in a Mercedes-Benz...
View ArticleMyanmar lifts newspaper ban
Vendors sit at a roadside newspaper and journals shop in Yangon April 1, 2013. Since 1963, Myanmar's government had banned private daily newspapers but with effect from Monday, the distribution of...
View ArticleHezbollah lobbies for status quo
Michel Suleiman called on lawmakers to come forward by Friday with a candidate for prime minister to form a new government. Mikati is from the March 8 coalition, which includes Hezbollah politicians....
View ArticleStruggling Newspapers Expand Online Pay Walls
SERRAVAL, France--Newspapers, once reluctant to try to charge readers for access to their Web sites, have begun doing so in droves. Across many of the developed economies of America, Europe and Asia,...
View ArticleO.C. Registers University Ad Deals Pose Credibility Questions
executives approached officials at three local universities with an offer they couldn't resist - weekly, six-page sections packed with positive news about their schools. For $275,000 apiece, UC Irvine,...
View ArticleKenya credited for election handling
Barack Obama . "The electoral process and the peaceful adjudication of disputes in the Kenyan legal system are testaments to the progress Kenya has made in strengthening its democratic institutions,...
View ArticleThis tipping-point for paywalls does not fix newspapers larger crisis |...
Ken Doctor has observed , a much different conclusion: loyal newspaper readers have minimal price sensitivity, if any at all. This is true for both online and offline subscription costs. Or, put...
View ArticleNew York Times Columnist Liberals Should Explain Why I Oppose Marriage Equality
wrote this weekend that he still believes there is a connection between same-sex marriage and how Americans are valuing marriage less, particularly how couples are more likely to cohabitate and have...
View ArticleEP’s 25 Under 35 2013
by: Kristina Ackermann and Nu Yang In 2012, CareerCast listed newspaper reporter as the fifth worst job in America - slightly better than working on an oil rig, but worse than, say, waiting tables for...
View ArticleNewspapers Delivered by Drone
by: Megan Garber | The Atlantic Add one more to the list of career paths that are being obviated by robots: news delivery. In Auvergne, a province in central France, residents get their daily news the...
View ArticleLibya - Editor held for more than 3 months in Libya for insulting the judiciary
Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of Amara Abdallah Al-Khitabi, the editor of the privately-owned newspaper Al-Umma, since 19 December 2012 and calls for his immediate release.Khitabi is...
View ArticleApril Fools Day glass-bottomed planes and a Rolling Stones camping trip
lights tsar " to get Britons switching their lights off and saving electricity; and the Sun claimed Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood went camping over the chilly Easter weekend to prepare themselves for...
View ArticleBrainworks Software Acquires Morcor Ad Tracking
by: Press Release | Brainworks Sayville, Long Island - March, 2013. Brainworks Software, a leading provider of innovative advertising, CRM and circulation software to the media industry, today...
View ArticleCameroon - Cameroonian editor jailed for defaming CEO of bus company
An appellate court in Cameroon should overturn the defamation conviction and jail sentence handed to a newspaper editor on Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today [28 March].A criminal...
View ArticleNew York Times piece argues that Obama would ‘do Canada a favour’ by blocking...
A Canadian academic has launched an assault on the Keystone XL pipeline, writing that U.S. President Barack Obama would "do Canada a favor" by blocking the project.Thomas Homer-Dixon, an author and...
View ArticleSecrets to Becoming the Next Media Disruptor from HuffPo CTO John Pavley
by: Sarah Erickson | Ebyline While traditional media outlets wring their hands and issue alarming reports about slipping ad dollars and loss of audience shares, web-based publications like The...
View ArticleBurmese snap up first private newspapers in 50 years
Burma , where a state monopoly on the daily press once kept news to a strict minimum, generally by threat of censorship, imprisonment or torture - or all three.Covering topics from sim card prices to...
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