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Mail editor ‘knew of detectives’

Monday, February 6th, 2012

The Daily Mail’s editor was aware the paper was using private detectives but not of the extent to which it was doing so, the Leveson Inquiry hears.

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Mirror hacking ‘possibly hidden’

Monday, January 16th, 2012

The Daily Mirror’s editor tells the Leveson Inquiry that phone hacking “might well have been” taking place when he was the paper’s showbiz editor.

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Paula Deen, meet diabetes?

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Paula Deen is expected to make a big announcement, or rather issue a revelation, that she has been living with Type 2 Diabetes. The Daily is reporting the Southern cook-restaurateur has been trying to keep the condition under wraps, but recently has been working on a multimillion-dollar deal with a pharmaceutical company to promote the medication she has been taking for the disease. Read full article > >

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Blue Ivy Carter reportedly leaves hospital in style; Bryan Ferry marries son’s ex

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

A morning mix of entertainment headlines… Blue Ivy Carter — the newborn daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z and officially the most famous infant in America — reportedly left Lenox Hill Hospital on Tuesday in a luxury Mercedes van, according to the Daily News. She’s also raking in presents from celebrities, including a trunk of children’s books from Oprah Winfrey . Jay-Z did not, however, buy the child a $600,000 24-carat gold rocking horse. I cannot stress that last point enough. ( New York Daily News ) Read full article > >

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David Frum’s Blog Launches at Midnight

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

On The Daily Beast.

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Former NotW Editor Gets New Gig

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

At NY Daily News, rival to Murdoch’s NY Post.

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Huntsman Confident in New Hampshire

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

The Daily Beast’s Lois Romano reports.

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2011: The year when it became the norm for the device in your pocket to be the center of your world

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

As far as years in technology go, 2011 was one for the record books. It wasn’t just about big battles like Apple vs. Samsung, Microsoft vs. Google, AT&T vs. the world, or Hewlett-Packard vs. itself. It wasn’t just about the growth of apps and the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the Web in our daily lives, though there were plenty of amazing developments both these realms. It wasn’t just about hardware or software. And it wasn’t just about towing the line or trying to hold onto it. Read full article > >

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Hacking ‘standard tool’ at Mirror

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Phone hacking appeared to be a “bog-standard journalistic tool” for gathering information, a former Daily Mirror financial reporter says.

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Piers Morgan due before Leveson

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Former Daily Mirror and NoW editor Piers Morgan is set to appear at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics.

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Eugene Robinson: Donald Trump debate decision is bad news only for comedians

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Donald Trump’s decision to call off the “debate” he was set to “moderate” means that the American political process gets to keep its last shred of dignity, at least for now. Given the way this campaign has been developing, this should be cause for celebration throughout the land — except among the clever people who write for “Saturday Night Live,” “The Daily Show” and late-night comedians. They must be devastated. Read full article > >

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Reality TV catches up to reality with Muslim show

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Among the themes of “All-American Muslim,” a cable reality show about the daily lives of five families in Dearborn, Mich., is the suspicion and bias that ordinary Muslims face in a nation uneasy about all things Islamic after Sept. 11, 2001. As it happens, reality has caught up to reality TV. Peppered by a conservative group’s complaints about the program, the Lowe’s home-improvement chain last week pulled its sponsorship — and has been fielding countercomplaints that the company had caved in to the very prejudices faced by the program’s protagonists. Read full article > >

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Ginger White says multiple men helped her financially

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Ginger White now says Herman Cain is not the only man in her life who gave her money. White, who has said she had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain , on Monday told the Daily Beast’ s Leslie Bennetts that “Cain wasn’t the only man who helped her financially; her work history and her sex life have long been intermingled in complex and contradictory ways.’’ Read full article > >

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Publisher of Newsweek magazine, The Daily Beast website leaves, 2 new executives brought in

Monday, November 14th, 2011

NEW YORK — The executive hired to turn around Newsweek magazine has left after 11 months. Ray Chelstowski, who served as publisher of Newsweek and The Daily Beast website, ended his tenure Monday. He had come from Entertainment Weekly magazine to oversee an effort to boost ad sales at Newsweek. Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal and Tom Weber, the magazine’s managing editor, also resigned Monday. Felsenthal is leaving to spend more time with his family and may eventually return, according to Andrew Kirk, a spokesman for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Read full article > >

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Georgia’s Shorter University tells workers to sign pledge they are not gay

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

To better ensure its staff follows the school’s biblical mandate, Georgia’s Shorter University told its 200 employees late last month to sign a “Personal Lifestyle Statement” rejecting homosexuality, adultery and premarital sex. The New York Daily News reports that those who don’t sign the pledge may lose their jobs. Read full article > >

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