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- Posted Nov 06, 2009
- Cable News Scrambles to Cover Fort Hood
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When the first dribs and drabs of news began to emerge Thursday afternoon about the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, the cable news networks all quickly went to DEFCON 1, scrambling for any scrap of information and clambering for on-air guests germane to the tragedy. Unfortunately, for the first couple of hours, valuable nuggets were few and far between.
- Posted Nov 04, 2009
- Time Inc. Files to Cut 280 Jobs in New York
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Time Inc. has filed with the New York State Department of Labor, giving notice that it has planned 280 layoffs in the state between Nov. 2 and Jan. 31. This gives the first hint of hard numbers for Time Inc. layoffs; the company has so far declined to specify how many jobs it will cut.
- Posted Nov 03, 2009
- Allen Surprised By WaPo Fistfight Coverage
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Washington Post assignment editor Henry Allen, following news reports that he punched Style reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia on Friday night, says he was surprised by the huge reaction in the media world. "Back when I got into journalism, the idea that a fistfight in a newsroom would turn into a news story was unthinkable," he said. "The guys in the sports department at the New York Daily News, they had so many, you wouldn’t even look up."
- Collecting Headlines Funnier Than This
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Headlines in the satirical weekly newspaper The Onion tend to function both as punch line and setup, in that order. They are the heart of the paper, and not only the first thing anybody reads, but also, unlike headlines in real newspapers all over the world, the first things to be written. The staff devotes the first two days of every week to composing headlines.
- Posted Nov 02, 2009
- Another Newspaper Bites the Dust
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The Internet is picking off newspapers left and right and the latest victim: The East Valley Tribune. Heat City is reporting and the twitter-sphere is abuzz with news that the Trib will stop the presses for good on December 31. Freedom Communications, the Trib's parent company, declared bankruptcy last month and was looking to sell the Pulitzer Prize-winning paper but was unable to find a buyer -- or a serious offer, for that matter.
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