Archive for November, 2011
Four full time roles to be cut as regional publisher closes two-year-old centralised subbing hub, a move which comes amid plans to close two Kent titles and the offices of the Croydon Advertiser
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Broadcasting & Cable | Variety NPR has another newsroom leadership position to fill as Executive Editor Dick Meyer leaves to lead BBC News America. Meyer, who has been at NPR since 2008, worked with Ellen Weiss, former senior… Read more
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Former Labour spin doctor tells Leveson inquiry that former employer paid Jonathan Rees to investigate him, as well as a member of his family and Labour colleague Peter Mandelson
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LA Weekly | LA Observed | KTLA 5 | LA Times | LA Daily News More than 200 Occupy LA protestors were arrested and removed Tuesday night from City Hall Park. Covering the arrests was a media… Read more
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Tweet The University of Central Lancashire’s Journalist Leaders Programme has secured €75,000 (£64,000) of Google funding to support “news entrepreneurs” after being named as one of three winners of the International Press Institute’s News Innovation Contest.
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The Clarion-Ledger | WAPT-TV Jackson, Miss. television station WAPT backed away from a report that Mississippi State football coach Dan Mullen “is close to signing a deal to replace Joe Paterno at Penn State.” Mullen — who says Penn… Read more
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Reuters | World-Herald | UNL Billionaire Warren Buffett warned investors two years ago that newspapers faced “the possibility of nearly unending losses” and not to buy them. Today, his company has purchased his hometown paper, the Omaha World-Herald.… Read more
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The Pulitzer Prizes are doing away with paper for next year’s awards. All entries must be submitted digitally. The Pulitzer Board is also changing the local breaking news award to emphasize real-time reporting
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News International apologises after revelation that daughter of phone hacking lawyer Mark Lewis was filmed by an investigator working for the News of the World
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NPR.org Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy, who says Egyptian security forces beat and sexually assaulted her near Tahrir Square, says her alleged attackers were “exacting revenge on the activists in Tahrir through me and my body.” Eltahawy, who is one of… Read more
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