TruemorsAA Gill Shoots a Baboon, Incites Twitter Tantrum
Restaurant critic AA Gill incited a Twitter tantrum after his column in the Sunday Times in which the controversial culinary connoisseur seemingly boasted about shooting a baboon. Not long after, AA Gill's name shot up to the top spot on Twitter's trending topics fuelled by...
CANADA: Canwest Files for Creditor Protection
Canada's media giant Canwest Global Communications Corp. is filing for creditor protection today as it restructures its huge debtload. Based in Winnipeg, Canwest owns Global Television and National Post, as well as... 
New York Times stock now cheaper than the Sunday paper
The Sunday Edition of the New York Times is $5.00. A share of the New York Times is $3.57"What costs more — a spark plug or a share of General Motors? A Sunday New York Times or a share of the newspaper company? A General Electric toaster or a share of GE? In... 
London's Evening Standard to go Free
Breaking News London's traditional tabloid the Evening Standard, is set to be free from October 12. The news comes in the wake of the shut down of News International's freesheet hit, thelondonpaper, following pre-tax losses of £12.9 million - and the creation of...
Newspaper Bailout Bill: Restructured as Nonprofits?
President Obama said he is "happy to look at" bills that would give newspaper organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofits. In an interview with editors from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade, President Obama talked about his concerns about the... 
Who Was Robert Novak?
Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak was born in Joliet, Illinois on February 26, 1931. He attended the University of Illinois, and started his journalistic carreer as a student writer for the Joliet Herald-News, and left the university one course short of graduation to work for... 
Church 'mortified' by Berlusconi
" The Roman Catholic Church has expressed "unease" and "mortification" over revelations surrounding the private life of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. In some of the strongest Church criticism to date, the newspaper... 
Zambia reporter in 'porn' trial
Beware this article has what could be consider as pornographic material, two media file attachments from Youtube.com well at least in Zambia... " The news editor of Zambia's largest independent... Slain foreigner was a convict - update
" THE 51-year-old Norwegian slain in Consolacion after allegedly holding four persons hostage had been convicted of rape and drugs charges and served time in jail in Norway. Nils Frode Steen Aksnes had been jailed for a string of cases in his hometown, according to the... 
SC 3rd Congressional District Debate: Barrett (R) vs. Dyer (D)
Watch the debate here RecordedGina Smith from, "The State" entitled her story, "Barrett defends his vote on bailout""The slumping economy grabbed the spotlight during Wednesday’s face-off between U.S. Rep. J....
Gov. Mark Sanford and Maria Belen Shapur Emails Exposed
The State newspaper in Columbia SC probably knew about the Sanford Affair for months. The State Political reporter, Gina Smith, caught the Governor getting off a Plane from Argentina at... Wall Street Journal, Gannett, to Lay Off over 1,000 Workers
Gannett, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States, that publishes Wall Street Journal, is to lay off over 1,000 workers due to a slow off in advertising sales. As much as 2,000 people could be laid off in this latest round of cutbacks, but the actual... 
Dave Eggers Will Save the Newspaper Industry
Despairing about the future of print media? Dave Eggers, acclaimed author and McSweeney's founder, will be shoulder to cry on. And he just might save the newspaper biz along the way. ""I actually have established an e-mail address, deggers@826national.org--if you want to... 
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Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs Dead?!
According to the Vancouver edition of the daily Metro newspaper fashion designer Marc Jacobs is dead. The "late American designer" is known throughout the fashion community for reinvigorating the industry and inciting trends in the last decade. But fear not, the famed Louis...
created by Blaine Metzgar | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago
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