Puzzle News!
Date: 04 March 2013
By Deb Amlen
Deb Amlen
How excited are we about the upcoming American Crossword Puzzle Tournament? Turns out that the Internet is abuzz with anticipation. Also, some news about the “American Red Crosswords” puzzle project to benefit survivors of Hurricane Sandy.
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Facebook News Feed Draws More Criticism
Date: 05 March 2013
By Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton
While Facebook responded to criticism that it was suppressing content in its news feed in order to highlight advertising posts, small businesses started voicing concerns about the company’s actions too.
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News From the Advertising Industry
Date: 04 March 2013
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
Account assignments, executive appointments and miscellaneous news from advertising agencies.
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Guest Lesson | Espionage Everywhere: Spying in the News and Popular Culture
Date: 05 March 2013
By Jacqueline V. Eyl
Jacqueline Eyl
In this lesson plan, we provide five ways you can pair the intrigue of espionage with Times reporting to get students to think critically, ask questions, and see a different side of history and current events.
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Main Street Gets the Gun News From Washington
Date: 04 March 2013
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
Hope is fading fast for a ban on the type of bullet-spraying assault rifle that took the lives of 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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Seeing Riches in Sports TV, Fox Will Create New Network
Date: 05 March 2013
By Richard Sandomir and Amy Chozick
Richard Sandomir
Fox’s chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, hopes to challenge ESPN for some of the lucrative revenue that the sports media giant has had largely to itself for more than three decades.
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PBS Near a Decision on Adding a Weekend Edition of ‘NewsHour’
Date: 04 March 2013
By Elizabeth Jensen
Elizabeth Jensen
A decision on adding half-hour Saturday and Sunday editions of the popular news program is not expected before the end of the month.
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Sports Illustrated Lands New Armstrong Interview
Date: 05 March 2013
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
The magazine billed it as Lance Armstrong’s first since talking with Oprah Winfrey six weeks ago. It came about serendipitously after the writer, Michael McCann, noticed that Mr. Armstrong had started following him on Twitter.
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In Oakland, Photojournalists Covering Crimes Become the Victims
Date: 04 March 2013
By Carol Pogash
Carol Pogash
In less than a year, journalists at every major television news station in the Bay Area have been robbed of expensive cameras, sometimes at gunpoint, and it is changing the way they report.
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Regis Philbin Returns, This Time on Fox’s Answer to ESPN
Date: 05 March 2013
By Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir
The longtime host, now 81, will be competing directly against two popular ESPN fixtures, “Around the Horn” and “Pardon the Interruption.”
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