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UPDATE 1-US Senate Votes To Override Media Ownership Rule
Posted by Reuters on 16 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Peter Kaplan, Reuters The vote moved lawmakers a step closer toward overturning the new FCC rule. |
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Al Jazeera Widens Reach, Eyes U.S. Cable Deals
Posted by Reuters on 15 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
| By Reuters The Al Jazeera Network has signed agreements with cable and satellite television operators that will bring its English and Arabic channels to more than 160 million homes worldwide |
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Why Cablevision Bought Newsday
Posted by MediaChannel on 14 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Marvin Kitman Former Newsday media critic Marvin Kitman explains Cablevision’s purchase of Newsday. |
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NYTimes Cleanses Thor Hearne’s Record, Scrubs Front-Page Reference to the GOP Vote-Suppressor’s ‘American Center for Voting Rights’
Posted by BradBlog on 14 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, New York Times, Journalism
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By Brad Friedman, BradBlog Paper Fails to Note Change to Article, Hearne’s Ties to Bush/RNC, Discredited Background as Partisan Operative… |
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Big Media Slams Proposal to Roll Back Cross-Ownership Rule
Posted by Matthew Lasar on 13 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
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By Matthew Lasar Thirteen major broadcast and newspaper groups have filed lengthy denunciations of a public interest group’s appeal to redo the FCC’s recent relaxation of its TV station/newspaper cross-ownership ban. |
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Time Magazine Advocates invading Burma
Posted by Huffington Post on 12 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Time Magazine, War Watch, Iraq War
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By Ben Cohen, Huffington Post For Time magazine’s World Editor Romesh Ratnesar, two failed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aren’t enough to dissuade him from invading another country. |
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Tribune to Sell Newsday to Cablevision
Posted by LA Times on 12 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership
Making the most of sale of Newsday
Posted by Chicago Tribune on 09 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch
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By Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune Tribune Co. would very much like the $650 million that Cablevision is dangling for control of Newsday. Yet Tribune Co., already the beneficiary of a deal with Rupert Murdoch, almost certainly doesn’t want to tick off Murdoch, who thought his News Corp. had an agreement in principle earlier for Newsday at $580 million. |
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Times ax falls on 15 in news downsizing
Posted by NY Post on 08 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, New York Times, Journalism
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By Keith J. Kelly, New York Post The New York Times is laying off 15 journalists after the company acknowledged it fell short of its goal of getting 100 people to take voluntary buyout packages. |
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Fourteen Years After Founding Yahoo This Man Has Eight Weeks to Save It
Posted by Guardian Unlimited on 08 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ownership
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By Richard Wray, Guardian Unlimited Jerry Yang faces being ‘flayed alive’ by Wall St for rejecting Microsoft’s $47 Billion. |
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Media ethics since the Jayson Blair bombshell
Posted by MarketWatch on 07 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, New York Times, Journalism
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By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch In the five years since the Blair scandal, all kinds of media organizations have been working harder to protect themselves from a similar situation. |
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Dan Rather resubmits suit against CBS
Posted by Reuters on 07 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, CBS
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By Paul J. Gough, Reuters Rather claims in the lawsuit that CBS forced him to keep silent when he wanted to defend the report and himself after bloggers and others questioned the documents. |
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Blogs yet to come of age - survey
Posted by MediaFile on 05 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, CNN, Journalism
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By Astrid Zweynert, MediaFile National television is the most trusted news source, ahead of newspapers and public radio, but the Internet is gaining ground, especially among the young, according to a major worldwide survey of trust in the media. |
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Yahoo under pressure after Microsoft walks out
Posted by Reuters on 05 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Business
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By Reuters As Microsoft pulls out of talks over a $47.5bn takeover of Yahoo, the latter faces growing pressure to find an alternative strategy to keep its share price afloat. |
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Fox trumps Netroots; bloggers rebel
Posted by Politico on 02 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, USDemocrats, Obama, Hillary, 08 Election
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By Mike Allen, Politico.com The nation’s top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers. |
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