New York Times:
The authorities are expanding access to journalists who don’t belong to cartel-like media groups that analysts say have produced a relatively spineless press.
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New York Times:
It’s a measure of Oprah Winfrey’s outsize stature that the news that she would shut down “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in September 2011 buckled the media world.
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Huffington Post:
CHICAGO — Sun-Times Media Group, which was recently sold out of bankruptcy to an investor group, said Friday it named John Barron to the newly created group publisher position and as senior vice president of news and editorial operations.The owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and dozens of suburban publications said Friday that (Read More)
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RALEIGH, N.C. � The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears it would prompt political grandstanding against President Barack Obama.The attempt to ban media at the event scheduled for Monday (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Max BlumenthalProgressive Book Club/Media Matters for America reviewIn August 2008, when then-senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the media had held her under a "sharper microscope" because she was a woman, Sarah Palin rose to condemn her, accusing Clinton of a "perceived whine" that would harm other fem (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific:
BEIJING-- A powerful gas explosion at a coal mine in northeastern China has killed at least 42 miners, with another 66 trapped more than a third of a mile underground, according to state news media. The accident again highlighted China's notoriously bad record on coal mine accidents, which kill t...
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MONACO — The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender and career.The IAAF said Friday it cannot confirm the South African sports ministry's claims of a deal allowing Semenya to keep the 800-mete (Read More)
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JCPenney is discontinuing its biannual "Big Book" catalog and instead will concentrate its efforts on creating smaller, more targeted catalogs, online selling and social media exposure. Case in point: the retailer's recent foray onto Facebook.
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FRANKFURT (AP)--German prosecutors investigating corruption in football say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland have been arrested and that about 200 games in Europe--including Champions League ties--are involved in what an UEFA official called the biggest match-fixing scandal in Europe.Police said Friday that more (Read More)
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CAIRO — Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.Egyptian fans – and the country's media – have been thrown into a frenzy over reports that Algerians attacked and (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
The news that the queen of daytime TV is leaving her perch — which only broke around 5PM ET Thursday — was big enough news to be A1 news at several of the nation's newspapers.
Below, see several of the different front pages featuring the Oprah news:
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Huffington Post:
The co-founder of Twitter today warned Rupert Murdoch that his plans to charge for online content, and block Google from using stories produced by his News International titles, were a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle".
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Huffington Post:
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Confronted with an ever-growing pile of old newspapers, Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin came up with the idea of using them to make shoes and tote bags for her environmentally friendly footwear company.Lin, 50, says they are now hot items in Taiwan as well as markets from the United States to Europe, f (Read More)