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news articles linking alcohol to crimes or accidents increase support for liquor law enforcement
22 February 2012, 3:45 pm
Reading a
newspaper article about the role alcohol played in an injury accident or violent crime makes people more supportive of enforcing alcohol laws, a new study suggests. Researchers had participants read actual
news reports, randomly selected from
newspapers across the United States, about violent crimes and various accidental injuries -- half of which were edited to mention the role of ...
Yahoo news hires Virginia Heffernan as national correspondent
22 February 2012, 5:05 am
More exciting personnel
news from the purple mothership: Yahoo
news has hired Virginia Heffernan, a veteran of the New York Times, as national correspondent. Heffernan will cover "culture and politics from a digital perspective," the company said in a release. Heffernan will be based in Yahoo's New York offices, reporting to managing editor Hillary Frey. [...]
Yahoo news hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent
22 February 2012, 5:05 am
Yahoo
news has hired Olivier Knox, Congressional correspondent for Agence France-Press, to be its White House correspondent--the first in Yahoo's 16-year history. Knox--who has spent more than a decade with AFP covering politics, including eight years covering the White House--starts on Feb. 13. He will be based in Washington and report to politics editor Chris [...]
Fox news on top: Cable net celebrates 10 years at #1 in ratings
22 February 2012, 5:05 am
Last fall, Fox
news celebrated its 15th anniversary with a lavish party in New York. Fox
news president Roger Ailes, who launched the channel in 1996, toasted 700 or so staffers that night, telling them, "Losing is highly overrated as a learning experience." On Tuesday afternoon, when Nielsen releases its final ratings for the month [...]
news sites on the mobile web: vast room for improvement
21 February 2012, 2:38 pm
Many
news publishers focus their mobile strategies on platform-specific apps—but the mobile web may actually be more important, since a mobile website is easier to discover, link to, and share from a mobile device. Damon Kiesow, senior product manager for the Boston Globe, recently examined the mobile websites of over 100 U.S.
newspapers. Here’s what he found… In this spreadsheet , Kiesow ...
Rediff.com Introduces Rediff ‘Realtime news Search’
21 February 2012, 6:52 am
Rediff.com India Limited , India’s leading online provider of
news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services introduces “Rediff Realtime
news Search”, an innovative
news search engine which delivers fresh and recent
news from India and the world.
news Corp to launch "Sun on Sunday" UK tabloid February 26
20 February 2012, 9:27 am
LONDON (Reuters) -
news International, the British
newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's
news Corp group, announced on Sunday it would publish a Sunday edition of Britain's scandal-hit Sun tabloid for the first time next weekend. In an internal memo to all staff,
news International chief executive Tom Mockridge said the first edition of 'The Sun on Sunday' would appear on February 26. The ...
World - news
What the world owes the slain journalists - CNN
22 February 2012, 6:06 pm
(CNN)-- Two more journalists have just died in Syria. They gave their lives for one simple reason: to bring the world the
news; to find out the truth about what is happening in Syria, so the rest of us can sit in the safety of our living rooms ...
Haley Barbour Tells ABC news, 'Somebody Else Might Get In" - YAHOO!
22 February 2012, 5:52 pm
Could the battle for the Republican nomination go all the way to the Republican convention in August? Could we see an entirely new candidate getting into the race? One long-time Republican leader tells ABC
news the answer to both questions is yes.
Tony Blair's Wife Sues news Corp. for Phone Hacking - YAHOO!
22 February 2012, 4:33 pm
Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has sued
news Corp. and a former private investigator on its payroll for hacking into her phone. He already served jail time for hacking in 2007, four years before the scandal erupted on a ...
STOCKS news EUROPE-Schneider jumps after 2011 results - Reuters UK
22 February 2012, 4:59 am
Shares in Schneider Electric jump 5.7 percent in strong volume to top the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European blue-chips after the world's biggest maker of low-voltage electrical equipment reports solid 2011 results. Volume is 117.7 ...
