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Founded this year, ThinkSocial's goal is to connect people and ideas to advance the use of social media to address society's most pressing challenges. Today we are very proud to announce the inaugural ThinkSocial Award Winners and also release Blueprints 1.0, a report detailing trends in social media for the public interest (Read More)
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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)
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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WASHINGTON — They call it the "Botax." The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they search for ways to pay for costly health care overhaul plans.Vanity was an easy target as lawmakers scraped for cash for the nea (Read More)
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Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don't get insurance through their employers."A forensic study would show it all leads back to Rahm Emanuel an (Read More)
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SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — A gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan Friday, first at a shooting range and then at a World War II historical site, killing four people and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself, officials said.The violence claimed the lives of two men, a 4-year-ol (Read More)
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With the Senate poised to cast historic votes on health care legislation, a host of activist groups, labor unions, and even the White House itself launched their closing arguments to ensure passage. On Friday, five different groups released polling numbers, television advertisements, robocalls and fact-checking data in an e (Read More)
New York Times:
Backers of science-driven medicine cheered the new recommendations on cancer screening, while many patients still believe that more is always better.
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As USA Basketball's spokesperson and primary media contact, it's safe to assume that Craig Miller receives a ton of phone calls and email inquiries that can quickly and easily fill up an eight-hour workday. Add that to the mix of coordinating all press conferences, overseeing all press releases, producing USA Basketball's w (Read More)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued last Sunday that Republicans deserve at least six additional weeks to consider health care reform before letting the bill come to a vote. By Friday, his top lieutenant said the entire GOP had already made up its mind on the legislation. Appearing on Fox News Friday mornin (Read More)
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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