How Facebook Comments Affect Trolling for News Websites
by: Martin Belam | Giga Om Whether news sites should or shouldn’t use the Facebook comment plug-in or Facebook identity seems to have been a recurring theme in the last few days. The ...
View ArticleIn truth the ceremony was a bit of a sham. The President was sworn in the day...
Oh the cynicism. The man whose words have rung down over four decades, encapsulating a non-violent demand for peace, equality and fairness: "I have a dream," has again been resurrected as ...
View ArticleSan Francisco Animal Care Control Faces Newspaper Shortage For Puppy Poop
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's animal control agency is relying on donations to solve an unforeseen problem in the digital age – a shortage of newspapers needed for potty training ...
View Articlei Editors Letter iWriters competition is now closed
Thanks to the hundreds of students who entered our iWriters competition, which is now closed. As ever, half the entries arrived in the last 24 hours. A few of you trailed in late with lame excuses, ...
View ArticleBergman Elected To Lead Minn. Newspaper Assoc.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) -- Rollin Bergman, owner of Page 1 Publications, is the new president of the Minnesota Newspaper Association. The trade organization says Bergman was elected president at the ...
View ArticleThe Lede Blog Syria Presidents Wife Pregnant Lebanese Newspaper Says
, an Amman-based news Web site. Mrs. Assad, a 37-year-old former investment banker who was born in London, has not been seen publicly in months. Rumors have repeatedly surfaced that she has left ...
View ArticleTuesday newspaper round-up Bumi Yahoo Osborne...
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Nat Rothschild escalated his battle with Bumi's board yesterday, dismissing their plans for a radical shake-up of the Indonesian coal miner he ...
View ArticlePacific Newspaper Group announces Gordon Fisher as new publisher
With a new year underway many of us are thinking ahead to vacation time but, with today's economic pressures, it can be difficult to set aside the cash for a big ...
View ArticleJan. 29 Canada’s newest premier and other letters to the editor
It doesn't surprise me that Rob Ford - to the detriment of Toronto - won his appeal and remains mayor (Invigorated Mayor Back From The Brink - Jan. 26). What does surprise me is that he ...
View ArticleAUDIO Newspaper cartoon was disgusting
Rupert Murdoch has apologised for a Gerald Scarfe cartoon that was published in The Sunday Times at the weekend because of the offence it caused the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The ...
View ArticleConrad Black strikes deal with ZoomerMedia to host weekly television talk show
TORONTO - Conrad Black will soon be coming to a television near you. The former media baron has reached a deal with ZoomerMedia (TSXV:ZUM) to host his own weekly, 60-minute current affairs talk ...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch sorry for offensive cartoon on Israel
, shows Mr Netanyahu holding a trowel and carries the lines: "Israeli elections. Will cementing peace continue?"Jewish community leaders said they were disturbed by parallels they saw ...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Introduces Model for “Truth Teller” Real-Time Fact Checker
is using several technologies by combining video and audio extraction with a speech-to-text technology to search databases of facts and fact checks. Support from Knight, the nation’s leading ...
View ArticleGoogle Releases Detailed Map of North Korea Gulags and All
detailed map of one of the world’s most secretive states. The new map labels everything from Pyongyang’s subway stops to the country’s several city-sized gulags, as well as its ...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch Condemns Sunday Times Netanyahu Cartoon What Is Blood Libel
#039;s Sunday Times has been accused of promoting anti-Semitism after running a controversial cartoon of Netanyahu on International Holocaust Remembrance Day." ...
View ArticleNew York Times Goes “Prepper”
quantitative easing when it occurred to me ... that the financial system was appallingly unstable and that the realm of the possible now included a disruptive reduction in the value of our ...
View ArticleEditor of Murdochs Sunday Times apologizes unreservedly for Netanyahu cartoon
LONDON - The acting editor of Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times newspaper has apologized "unreservedly" for a cartoon depicting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall using ...
View ArticleSneak peek Conrad Black’s TV show features sex toys for seniors and yoga in a...
Sex toys for seniors. Donald Trump. A bombastic former felon possessed of a British peerage.All of this may be storming onto Canadian TVs by springtime, when a new weekly show for older viewers ...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch apologises for cartoon depicting Netanyahu building wall of blood
stretches back to the 1960s, often makes use of blood in his cartoons. The red fluid is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader, Bashar Al ...
View ArticleNew York Times Launches Incubator Program
#039;s no secret that times are tough for the Gray Lady. A recent round of buyouts has seen a pack of top-level talent walk away from the paper, including a managing editor, John Geddes, and prolific ...
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