News Corporation Shareholders Meeting: Much Ado Might Not Add Up to Much
Date: 16 October 2012
By David Carr
David Carr
Despite new revelations in the hacking scandal and significant protests from large shareholders expected at Tuesday’s annual meeting, the Murdochs’ control of News Corporation will very likely continue.
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Wine News Online: A Paying Proposition
Date: 16 October 2012
By Eric Pfanner
Eric Pfanner
While general-interest publications struggle to get readers to pay for online content, wine publications seem to draw customers who are willing to pony up. Well-known critics like Robert Parker and Jancis Robinson have long had paid-for sites. The latest digital newsletter, The Feiring Line, is due to start this month.
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$11 Million Severance Reported for Murdoch Aide
Date: 16 October 2012
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-plagued British newspaper group, still faces a variety of charges.
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Murdoch Hears Critics as His Board Wins Election
Date: 16 October 2012
By Ben Sisario
Ben Sisario
The company also elected two new board members: Elaine Chao, who worked in the Bush White House, and Álvaro Uribe, the former president of Colombia.
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CNN to Interview Reddit’s Violentacrez: A Troll Comes Out From Under the Bridge
Date: 16 October 2012
By David Carr
David Carr
Violentacrez, the moderator of several highly controversial forums on Reddit, was outed on Gawker and fired from his job, and he will now sit for an interview with CNN.
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Oct. 14: Breaking the State-National Poll Stalemate
Date: 15 October 2012
By Nate Silver
Nate Silver
If the current polls hold, predicting the election outcome will boil down to making a series of educated guesses about the relationship between state and national polls.
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Hollywood Moguls Pledge $90 Million to Organization Supporting Workers
Date: 16 October 2012
By Brooks Barnes
Brooks Barnes
David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg each pledged $30 million to the non-profit Motion Picture & Television Fund, which provides health services and other support.
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Predators on Pedestals
Date: 15 October 2012
By Bill Keller
Bill Keller
Why do we look away from monsters in our midst, like Jimmy Savile?
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Parsing of Data Led to Mixed Messages on Organic Food’s Value
Date: 15 October 2012
By Kenneth Chang
Kenneth Chang
As recent disparate conclusions on organic produce show, the way data is handled in a meta-analysis — a statistical compilation of earlier work by others — can make a difference in the findings.
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Sprint Clinches Deal With SoftBank
Date: 15 October 2012
By William Alden
William Alden
Sprint Nextel is selling a 70 percent stake to SoftBank of Japan. | Bank earnings continue with Citigroup. | Two Americans are awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. | The A.C.L.U. is taking aim at Morgan Stanley’s mortgage machine.
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