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Detroit Free Press executive editor leaving paper
Detroit Free Press Executive Editor Caesar Andrews plans to take a voluntary buyout and leave the newspaper later this year. Andrews says he is unsure of his next career move, but has expressed interest in journalism education. The newspaper reports...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Gannett Company Incorporated, Freedom of the Press
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McClatchy newspaper chain to cut 1,400 jobs
Associated PressNEW YORK — Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. is slashing 1,400 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, as part of an accelerating drive to cut costs as advertising revenues dwindle. McClatchy also Monday reported a 15.4 percent decline in advertising...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Florida, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, California
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Under investor pressure, Yahoo shuffles product groups
Bloomberg NewsYahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang, facing defections by top executives after he rejected a $47.5 billion buyout from Microsoft Corp., will reorganize the Internet company's product groups to spark a turnaround. The company, owner of the No. 2...Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., National Government, Viacom Inc.
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BLACK SUPPORT FOR GOP MAY HINGE ON NOMINATION FIGHT
The 2008 presidential campaign is turning out to be a pivotal moment for black Republicans in Hampton Roads. On the one hand, a number of black political leaders previously aligned with the GOP say they will support Democrat Barack Obama should he win...Tags: National Government, Democratic Party, Chuck Smith, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), International Military Interventions
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Read it and weep: the perilous fall of the Press-Telegram
Thirty years ago, Stan Leppard, a rewrite man on the city desk with phlegm in his larynx and a terminal addiction to unfiltered cigarettes, gave me the best professional advice I ever received. He delivered it shortly before I was about to file a not-...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Veterans Affairs, New York Times, Boeing Co., Washington Post Company
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Chandlers lost chance to increase stock value
Tribune staff reporterIt's hardly a model for other activist shareholders to follow. Dissatisfied with the gradually sinking price of Tribune Co. shares, the Chandler family of California put the company in play, hoping an auction might boost the value of their major stake in...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, McClatchy Co., New York Times, Auction Service, Consumer Electronics Industry
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Buyout won't mean end of firm's link to foundation
Tribune staff reporterThis story contains corrected material, published April 7, 2007. The deal to take Tribune Co. private would end the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation's long standing as a major shareholder of the company, but other ties between the Chicago-based...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Censorship, Maryland, Tribune Tower
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Illegal gringos
I have long been an avid consumer of that scrappiest, most off-center species of newspaper—the English-language expatriate rag. From the two predecessors of the International Herald-Tribune, to the Gringo Gazette, to the two papers I worked for in Central...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Local Authority, Demographics, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants
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Newsday.com nets Web site award
Newsday.com was awarded a 2006 EPpy Award for Best Special Feature in an Internet Service for its presentation of "Fire Alarm," Newsday's special report on volunteer fire departments on Long Island. Newsday.com built a database for the eight-day series...Tags: Google Inc., New York Times, Long Island, Newspapers, Fires
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Charges in Iraqi's death
Newsday Washington BureauSeven Marines and a sailor could face the death penalty in the April killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian allegedly taken from his home, bound and shot without cause, the Marine Corps said yesterday. The service members placed an AK-47 assault rifle...Tags: Prosecution, Death Penalty, Armed Forces, Lawyers, Murder
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Where the Taliban still rule
STAFF CORRESPONDENTFour years after the United States led the overthrow of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, a new Taliban movement has taken control in a swath of neighboring Pakistan. Taliban militants control much of Waziristan, a rocky, mountainous area twice the size...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Armed Forces, Rebellions, Terrorism, Civil Unrest
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She courted history
In her best-selling memoir about growing up on a dusty cattle ranch in Arizona, Sandra Day O'Connor said that her childhood had endowed her with three pivotal values: openness, independence and generosity. If you had to sum up O'Connor's 24-year tenure...Tags: Gun Control, Sociology, Livestock Farming, Philosophy, Ronald Reagan
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