Independent News Agrees to Sale of S.African Unit for $226 Million
by: Reuters (Reuters) - Media group Independent News & Media (INM) has agreed to sell its South African unit to a consortium of investors for 2 billion rand ($226 million), the Irish ...
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 ArticleUS newspaper round-up Samsung Google Starbucks...
news ) . Samsung Electronics Co.'s and Apple Inc.'s battle to dominate the world's smartphone markets has mostly been waged from their respective sides of the Pacific. Now the South ...
View ArticleT Magazine Daniel Day-Lewis Magazine Editor
For one of cinema’s most reclusive talents, Daniel Day-Lewis has certainly been making the rounds. Now, ahead of the Oscars, the stylish men’s ...
View ArticleColumnist Quits Louisville Courier-Journal After Paper Refuses to Publish His...
after the newspaper rejected a piece he'd written that suggested reforms to the editorial page and that the paper disclose political affiliations of editors and reporters. On ...
View ArticleEgyptian editor says he was forced out by Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim Brotherhood , the country's ruling party.Hani Shukrallah, one of Egypt's most respected journalists and a fierce critic of the Brotherhood, left his post last month. He had refused ...
View ArticlePistorius family disappointed by sensationalist media reports
Oscar Pistorius have criticised the media for sensationalist coverage of the murder case against him.Henke Pistorius, 59, the South African Olympic and Paralympic star's father, said he was ...
View ArticleNewspaper calls Rihanna the new Princess Diana
A article in a British newspaper is sparking all kinds of negative reaction to its comparison of Rihanna as being the new Princess Diana. The London Times claims RiRi and Princess Di share a knack ...
View ArticleNew York Times Editor Defends Tesla Takedown
has issued her opinion on the paper's charged dispute with electric automaker Tesla -- and it is unlikely that her careful approach to the case's journalistic and technical questions will ...
View ArticleNews Corp AllThingsD Contemplate Split
by: Peter Lauria and Nadia Damouni | Reuters (Reuters) - AllThingsD, the widely read technology blog run by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, has begun discussions with owner News Corp about ...
View ArticleNewspaper publisher APN to axe jobs
Gladstone 4680 Regional newspaper company APN has confirmed it will cut 12 positions in Queensland over the next two months, as part of a company-wide shake-up.APN publishes several newspapers ...
View ArticleFCIR University of Miami Announce New Partnership
by: fcir.org The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and the University of Miami School of Communication announce a new partnership that will train students to produce in-depth, ...
View ArticleChina Knocks Off U.S. to Become Worlds Top Smart Device Market
by: Peter Farago | Flurry Just days into the Chinese New Year (Year of the "Snake" for anyone keeping track), China has passed the U.S. to become the world’s top country for ...
View ArticleWhy LinkedIn is a Sleeping Giant of Publishing
by: Josh Sternberg | Digiday Let’s say you were to construct the ideal business publisher from scratch. It would have a strong tech platform that doesn’t slow down because of too ...
View ArticleAnti-apartheid activist re-enters politics
A prominent anti-apartheid activist said she is re-entering South African politics and creating her own political party to do it. Mamphela Ramphele, a medical doctor who until recently had been ...
View ArticleCritics rally against French-language bill
A bill that would tighten Quebec's French-language charter is an attack on civil rights, say protesters demonstrating against the bill. A few hundred people gathered in front of Provincial ...
View ArticleGreeces Economic Crisis Reveals Fault Lines In The Media
People read newspaper headlines in Athens. In 2009, there were 39 national dailies, 23 national Sunday papers, 14 national weekly papers and dozens of TV and radio stations for a population of 11 ...
View ArticlePanda pair in Scotland show mating signs
Two pandas at a zoo in Edinburgh, Scotland, have begun to display courtship behavior, raising hopes of a successful mating, zoo officials said. Both pandas, ...
View ArticleGliedman gets visitation rights to baby
newborn child, a New York court ruled. Gliedman, 27, who was arrested in December with her boyfriend Aaron Greene, 31, after police found a cache of suspected terrorism instructions, weapons and ...
View ArticleEadington gambling economist dies
William Eadington, a U.S. economist who might be called the father of gambling studies, has died of cancer at 67, a colleague said. Eadington was graduate school in California, when he went to ...
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