News Corp. Hits a Bump as Investors Prepare to Meet
Date: 14 October 2011
By Amy Chozick and Tanzina Vega
Amy Chozick
The controversy this week over an unorthodox circulation deal at the European edition of The Wall Street Journal complicates matters for the company’s leadership.
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Pension Funds Challenge News Corporation Board
Date: 14 October 2011
By Amy Chozick and Julia Werdigier
Amy Chozick
On Friday, California’s two huge public sector pension funds said they would withhold support from some or all of the News Corporation’s board nominees.
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Protestors Get The News
Date: 14 October 2011
Rob Harris
Rob Harris
A cheer erupts after a the announcement that Brookfield Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park, will not require protesters to leave.
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The Week’s Business News in Pictures
Date: 15 October 2011
The nation’s ports suggest that the holiday shopping season may disappoint, the Wall Street protests continued and continued to provoke, Europe pressed harder to find a solution to the deepening debt crisis and the iPhone 4S went on sale.
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Politico Reporter Resigns Amid Plagiarism Allegations
Date: 14 October 2011
By Tanzina Vega
Tanzina Vega
A reporter for Politico resigned on Thursday after allegations that she had used content in a number of stories from that had been published by other sources.
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The Times’s executive editor Jill Abramson on her new book, “The Puppy Diaries”; Helen Schulman’s “This Beautiful Life”; the science of the human brain; best-seller news
Date: 14 October 2011
This week, the Times’s executive editor Jill Abramson on her new book, “The Puppy Diaries”; Helen Schulman talks about her novel “This Beautiful Life”, a selection of The Big City Book Club; Christopher Chabris discusses new books about the science of the human brain; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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Vic Miles, Reporter and Anchor on WCBS-TV, Dies at 79
Date: 15 October 2011
By Dennis Hevesi
Dennis Hevesi
Mr. Miles brought a no-nonsense, get-to-the-essence style to his 24 years as a reporter and anchorman for WCBS-TV/Channel 2 in New York and was among the first black television reporters in the city.
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Cathartic Stories and Deep Loss
Date: 14 October 2011
By Harvey Araton
Harvey Araton
A Mainland Regional High School teacher and his journalism students address a difficult subject in class — the deaths of four of the school’s football players in a crash.
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Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me
Date: 15 October 2011
Test your knowledge of recent events.
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The Unemployed Don’t Care Whether It’s Structural or Cyclical
Date: 14 October 2011
By James Warren
James Warren
City Hall unveils a new budget, the University of Chicago economists ponder, and the unemployed try and try and try again.
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