French Photographer Dies From Injuries Received in Northern Syria
by: Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn that Olivier Voisin, a 35-year-old French freelance photographer, died early today in Antakya International ...
View ArticleAn Eye On the Times-Picayune’s Numbers
by: Ryan Chittum | Columbia Journalism Review We’ll have a long story on the Times-Picayune next week, but Publisher Ricky Mathews and Editor Jim Amoss released some numbers in the last few ...
View Articlei Editors Letter The ultimate taboo
Who was surprised Cardinal O'Brien quit? Sad, perhaps, but surprised? It was always confusing growing up Catholic, marrying daily indoctrination and the Sunday guilt-fest with the behaviour of ...
View ArticleNew York Times renames International Herald Tribune
The New York Times has stepped up efforts to strengthen its global recognition, and it is in the process of shedding most of its properties, including the Boston Globe. (CARLO ...
View ArticleDetroit newspaper workers agree to new 3-year contract
Employees of several unions at the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News and Detroit Media Partnership ratified new three-year contracts on Sunday that provide annual across-the-board 1% wage increases ...
View ArticleTesla team mulls plan to boost image after New York Times review
Elon Musk, co-founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, speaks at the California Institute of Technology commencement ceremony in Pasadena, California June 15, ...
View ArticleDoes the White House Use Social Media to Circumvent the Press
NewsHour's political editor Christina Bellantoni and the Daily Download's Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz highlight President Obama's hosting of a Google Hangout to discuss the ways ...
View ArticleChinas Loose Policy Ending Newspaper Says
China's recent loose monetary policy is coming to an end, said an editorial in the China Securities News published Tuesday.Liquidity conditions have been looser than expected since Chinese New ...
View ArticleSaudis bought weapons for Syrian rebels sources tell New York Times
Saudi Arabia has financed a large purchase of infantry weapons from Croatia and quietly funneled them to anti-government fighters in Syria in a drive to break the bloody stalemate that has allowed ...
View ArticleThe New York Times vanilla outrage-free story that started it
President Obama ’s political team is fanning out across the country in pursuit of an ambitious goal: raising $50 million to convert his re-election campaign into a powerhouse national advocacy ...
View ArticleWashington Post ombudsman and colleagues loathe religious traditionalists
's last independent ombudsman and that this chair will empty at the conclusion of my two-year term Feb. 28. If so, that will end nearly 43 years of this publication having enough courage and ...
View ArticlePeers compromise over press regulation
Lord Fowler said pre-publication checks were an 'anathema' to most journalists and a 'dangerous restriction' to press freedom. Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty ...
View ArticleTuesday newspaper round-up Italy Tesco Rio Tinto...
LONDON (ShareCast) - The eurozone's debt crisis strategy was in chaos on Monday night after anti-austerity parties appeared on track to win a majority of seats in the Italian parliament, vastly ...
View ArticleCathy Newman claims to have been propositioned at political conference
newspapers .Newman said she was once propositioned at a party conference by the then editor of a national newspaper, who asked to come to her hotel bedroom despite her protestations.She also recalled ...
View ArticleTimes newspaper launches problem iPad app to readers
The Times newspaper is struggling to iron out bugs in its new iPad app, after being flooded with complaints from readers who say it can not be run properly on their machines. Earlier this month the ...
View ArticleObama Eject Media So We Can Take Questions
by: Erik Wemple | The Washington Post Just a couple of weeks ago, President Obama bragged that his was the most transparent administration in history, an oft-cited point. Just a couple of ...
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EIB TO LEND €600m AT LOW RATES TO IRISH FIRMS IN 2013 - The European Investment Bank (EIB) expects to make €600m in low-cost loans to projects and companies in Ireland this year, its new ...
View ArticleFeb. 26 Hollywood’s history and other letters to the editor
bends the facts and fails to give Canada its due in the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (Affleck's Oscar Nod To Canada Better Than Nothing - online, Feb. 25).Canadian filmmakers have had years to ...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch No interest in Boston Globe bid
No: News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is "emphatically" uninterested in bidding to buy the Boston Globe. The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is reportedly hoping for a bid from Rupert ...
View ArticleTulsa World editors to stay independent
Executives at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s BH Media Group said editorial decisions would stay local at their newest purchase, Oklahoma's Tulsa World newspaper. "When it comes to news, ...
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