Election’s Over, So What’s Next for the Cable News Channels?
Date: 15 November 2008
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
For all the news media outlets that set viewership records in recent months, the looming question after Senator Barack Obama’s election is: What happens now?
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Fidelity Layoffs to Total 3,000 Workers
Date: 15 November 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Two rounds of job cuts represent 3,000 employees, or about 7 percent of the company’s 44,400-member work force.
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The Next Act for Cable News Channels
Date: 15 November 2008
By The New York Times
For all the news media outlets that set viewership records in recent months, the looming question after Senator Obama’s election is: what happens now?
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Abercrombie & Fitch Profit Down 46%; Shares Tumble
Date: 15 November 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch fell the most in eight years after the teen-apparel retailer cut its profit forecast as shoppers held off on buying upscale jeans.
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In 1978, a Faux Paper Was Real Genius
Date: 15 November 2008
By Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer
The modern standard for fake news was set in October 1978, with the publication of the one and only issue of Not The New York Times, a pitch-perfect replica, spiritually and physically.
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Politico and Reuters join in newspaper venture
Date: 15 November 2008
By Richard Pérez-Peña
Richard Pérez-Peña
Politico, the upstart news source from Washington, and Reuters, the venerable wire service, have joined forces to offer articles to newspapers and sell advertising on the papers' Web sites, the latest step in the rising competition among electronic news media to fill the void left by the shrinking print business.
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Detroit papers to trim home delivery
Date: 16 November 2008
DETROIT — Beset by falling revenue, two Detroit newspapers said Tuesday that they planned to offer only three days of home delivery and would push their online editions instead, making the city the largest in the United States to have its daily papers undergo such a makeover.
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Obama says inquiry shows nothing wrong
Date: 16 November 2008
By Jeff Zeleny
Jeff Zeleny
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama said Monday that an internal review had found that his advisers were not involved in any "inappropriate" talks with Governor Rod Blagojevich or his aides over the vacant Senate seat in Illinois, but Obama agreed to a federal prosecutor's request to withhold releasing the results of the inquiry until next week.
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Kidnapping negotiator is abducted in Mexico
Date: 16 November 2008
By Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey
MEXICO CITY — An American security consultant who has helped negotiate the release of scores of kidnapping victims in Latin America was himself kidnapped last week in northern Mexico after delivering a seminar there on how to avoid that fate, officials said Monday.
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Book Review Podcast
Date: 15 November 2008
By The New York Times
This week: Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter on George Plimpton; Motoko Rich with Notes from the Field; Roy Blount Jr. on language; and Jennifer Schuessler with bestseller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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