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- Posted Jul 03, 2009
- Post Co. Cancels Corporate Dinners
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Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth (left) yesterday canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after learning that marketing fliers offered corporate underwriters access to Post journalists, Obama administration officials and members of Congress in exchange for payments as high as $250,000.
- Two Suitors for Boston Globe Join Forces
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Former advertising executive Jack Connors and private equity investor Stephen Pagliuca have joined forces to prepare for a potential bid to buy The Boston Globe, according to people briefed on the sales process. This week the two got approval from the Globe’s owner, The New York Times Co., to team up for a potential bid, the sources said.
- Posted Jul 02, 2009
- St. Paul Pioneer Press Cuts 11 Jobs
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The St. Paul Pioneer Press laid off nine newsroom employees and two more in advertising sales and production today, according to a report by the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. This latest round of layoffs leaves the newspaper with 131 newsroom staffers and 74 in advertising. Layoffs at the Pioneer Press earlier this year claimed about a dozen staffers and saw the imposition of five unpaid furlough days.
- NYT Reporter Returns to Newsroom
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After seven months of being held hostage by the Taliban, David Rohde returned to The New York Times today and to perhaps the most sustained ovation ever heard in the paper’s newsroom. Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, escaped from his captors two weeks ago, along with Tahir Ludin, an Afghan reporter who had served as his interpreter and escort.
- Posted Jun 30, 2009
- News Organizations Still Wary of TMZ
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Traditional television news organizations found themselves getting handily beaten last week–in some case by hours–by a celebrity gossip Website. But just because TMZ was first–and right–in reporting the news of Michael Jackson’s death doesn’t mean that news organizations will be any more inclined to give the site credit on the next big celebrity scoop.
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When Is Ok to Hold a News Story?
In the days since the public learned of New York Times reporter David Rohde’s escape from Taliban captivity, it’s also come out that at least forty news organizations knew of his kidnapping, but didn't say anything. Did news organizations do the right thing? Full story.
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