Discovered just three months ago, an e-mail from June 2008 sent to James Murdoch discussed in frank terms the potentially disastrous scale of phone hacking at News International.
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A 2008 E-Mail at the Heart of a Hacking Scandal
News International owner Rupert Murdoch says he is committed to publishing the Sun newspaper, following the arrest of five of its employees.
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Sun ‘will continue’ says Murdoch
Media giant News Corporation sees its net profits rise 65% in the three months to the end of December 2011 compared to 2010.
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News Corp profits swing to growth
The Washington Post announced Wednesday that it would extend buyout offers to newsroom staff members in an effort to reduce the paper’s payroll. It is the fifth in a series of buyouts that have helped reduce the size of the staff by more than a third over the past decade as circulation and advertising revenue have fallen. Read full article > >
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Washington Post offers buyouts to newsroom staff in effort to reduce costs
More than you wanted to know? A new book shares explicit details about a 50-year-old presidential sex scandal between JFK and a White House intern. “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,” by Mimi Beardsley Alford , chronicles the 18-month relationship that ended when Kennedy died in 1963. The memoir is getting a lot of advance buzz — including a prime-time NBC interview Wednesday with Meredith Vieira — because of Alford’s credibility and her graphic descriptions of encounters with the dazzling Womanizer-in-Chief, whom she always called “Mr. President” and never kissed on the lips. Read full article > >
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JFK intern Mimi Alford shares story of her affair with Kennedy in new book. Relevant? Historian Robert Dallek says yes
The channel would combine resources from ABC News and Univision’s news division to take on established players like CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
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Media Decoder Blog: Univision and Disney In Talks For An English-Language News Channel
Why spend 15 hours a week cutting up newspapers?
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Why spend 15 hours a week cutting coupons?
Chris Huhne’s resignation as Energy Secretary will be a loss to the cabinet and the Lib Dems, his former parliamentary private secretary tells BBC News.
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Huhne’s exit ‘a loss to cabinet’
Renews request for grant money to encourage hiring.
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Obama Outlines Veterans Jobs Program
News photos from around the world: 28 January-3 February
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Week in pictures: 28 January-3 February
Harry Redknapp’s admission of lying to a News of the World reporter is “extremely telling”, a court is told.
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Redknapp lies ‘extremely telling’
Harry Redknapp admits lying to a News of the World reporter about cash payments, during his second day on the stand at his tax evasion trial.
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Redknapp admits lying about cash
Two recent news events caught my eye. The first was the publication of a study in a psychology journal suggesting that having a crappy first name can make you less happy and less successful in life. The second was the publication of a state-by-state list of the names of the first babies born in 2012. Read full article > >
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Gene Weingarten: Harm monikers
Washington Post offers buyouts to newsroom staff in effort to reduce costs
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