PRESS DIGEST-New York Times business news - Feb 18
Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:20am EST Feb 18 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * ...
View ArticleLife Of Pi Wins Pair of Sound Editors Awards
won two awards in the feature film categories at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’s 60th MPSE Golden Reel Awards, Sunday at the Westin ...
View ArticleEditor Behind Romney 47 Percent Video Honored With Polk Journalism Award
Mother Jones' David Corn was among the George Polk Award honorees. CBS News' Holly Williams, Frontline's Martin Smith and the New York Times' David Barstow are also award ...
View ArticleMonday newspaper round-up Sterling BoE Centrica
LONDON (ShareCast) - Hedge funds and investment managers are dumping sterling as disappointing economic growth in the UK, the threat of a downgrade of its debt and an upcoming change of guard at the ...
View ArticlePaul Foot award names shortlist of eight campaigns by journalists | Media Monkey
Stephen Wright Daily Mail (15 years' coverage of the Stephen Lawrence case).Judged by Brian MacArthur (chair), Clare Fermont, Bill Hagerty, Ian Hislop and Alan Rusbridger, the 5,000 award for ...
View ArticleIrish firm sells S. African newspapers for $227M
In a statement issued late Sunday night, Dublin-based Independent News & Media PLC said it sold its South African subsidiary to Sekunjalo Holdings. Sekunjalo Holdings is led by executive chairman ...
View ArticleUganda Editors Tip Health Journalists
Much as reporting on the health sector in Uganda has made progress over the last decade, there is still room for improvement, according to Michael Wakabi, The East African's Uganda Bureau ...
View ArticleRihanna Daily Stars less-than-shattering revelations | Media Monkey
Rihanna bottled in street". Alarmed readers are told that the pop starlet was "left bloodied and battered" after a fan "hurled a bottle" at her in the street. Sounds serious. ...
View ArticleFeb. 18 You dont know Jacques Demers and other letters to the editor
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers at Laval University in Quebec City Aug. 27, 2009. (MATHIEU BELANGER ...
View ArticleAssad says will win Syria war newspaper
As-Safir newspaper said that Assad also told the politicians, who were unnamed in the report, that Syria's future belonged to his camp."We are sure we will win, we are reassured by the ...
View ArticlePalestinian official Israel to free 550
Marwan Barghouti , an unnamed senior Palestinian official told Maariv Monday. Another to be freed is Ahmed Sadat, secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, incarcerated ...
View ArticleMcClellan An old newspaper turns into a time machine
A friend recently visited Pearl Harbor and brought back a souvenir -- a copy of the Dec. 8, 1941, edition of the St. Louis Star-Times.The front page was full of news about the attack. Details were ...
View ArticleTimes hits impasse with directors over new editors
the editors of the Times and the Sunday Times being installed as "temporary acting editors" is set to continue indefinitely, with the directors who blocked their full appointment unlikely ...
View ArticleU.N. report Syrian violence escalating
U.N. investigators said Monday the government of Syria should be referred to an International Criminal Court to halt increasing violence against civilians. A group of four investigators led by Paulo ...
View ArticleNew Wired editor Scott Dadich Likes to Blow Things Up
There are some interesting things that happen when we push past our comfort zone. For me, the idea of the "wrong theory" sort of butts against my more controlling nature. I have a bit of ...
View ArticleIrelands Independent News Media sells leading newspapers in South Africa for...
JOHANNESBURG - An Irish media company has sold off its newspaper group in South Africa, including The Star and newspapers in Cape Town, to a local investment group for $227 million, the firm has ...
View ArticleIrish newspaper group to sell S.African titles
Irish publishing group Independent News and Media (INM) will sell its South African operation to a local empowerment firm Sekunjalo in a deal said to be worth $227.27 million, according to a ...
View ArticleWe need a new era of digital journalism
The survival of quality news calls for a new approach to writing and reporting. Inspiration could come from blogging and magazine storytelling and also bring back memories of the 70s new journalism ...
View ArticleCalif. police find human remains at home
Police in Pasadena, Calif., said they are investigating the discovery of human bones in the back yard of a home. Pasadena police Lt. Jason Clawson said authorities were checking reports of a ...
View ArticleWelcome to the new CNN the tabloid of TV news | Martin Dunn
CNN last week, giving the most telling insight yet into the way he sees the channel regaining its relevance.He has been telling insiders that the future of the network is compelling story telling. ...
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