Months of Transition Ahead for NBC News Online
Date: 17 July 2012
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
While switching Web addresses from MSNBC.com to NBCNews.com was easy, it will take months for Microsoft and NBC to fully dissolve the deal that formed MSNBC.com as a 50-50 joint venture in the mid-1990s.
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Times Names Buffalo News Editor as Its New Public Editor
Date: 16 July 2012
By Tanzina Vega
Tanzina Vega
Margaret Sullivan will succeed Arthur S. Brisbane in a role meant as a watchdog of New York Times journalism and a liaison to the public.
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RIM Told to Pay $147 Million in Software Patent Dispute
Date: 16 July 2012
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Jurors determined that software that lets companies manage BlackBerry devices remotely infringed Mformation’s patents.
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News From the Advertising Industry
Date: 16 July 2012
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
Account assignments, executive appointments and miscellaneous news from advertising agencies.
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Fashion News We’re Reading Now
Date: 17 July 2012
By The New York Times
Fashion news we’re reading now from Louis Vuitton’s bespoke program to Warby Parker’s first stand-alone store.
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Microsoft and NBC Complete Web Divorce
Date: 16 July 2012
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
MSNBC.com has become NBCNews.com, ending the site’s brand confusion with the cable channel of the same name and signifying that NBC’s long relationship with Microsoft is over.
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Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back
Date: 16 July 2012
By Jeremy W. Peters
Jeremy Peters
Faced with an unforgiving, gaffe-obsessed media culture, politicians and their advisers are routinely demanding that reporters allow them final editing power over any quotations that appear in print.
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Trying to Eradicate Reports of a Cockroach Invasion
Date: 16 July 2012
By Elisabetta Povoledo
Elisabetta Povoledo
Italian news media have reported that red cockroaches, the American type, have invaded Naples, but health and city officials say the stories are not true.
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U.S. Tightens Security for Economic Data
Date: 16 July 2012
By John H. Cushman Jr
John Cushman
Fearing leaks to high-speed traders, the government is overhauling its “lockup room,” where news media wait to hear new inflation numbers, jobless rates and other critical information.
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Politics and Journalists
Date: 16 July 2012
A former journalist advises colleagues, Don’t play the politicians’ game.
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