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ITN Appoints Two MDs; Endemol Marketing Head Out; Digicom - 2 days ago

— ITN: Multimedia news provider ITN has named two new MDs: Asha Oberoi fills the new role of...
Shares In Italian Fashion Retailer Yoox Rise After €104.5 Million IPO - 2 days ago

Just as VCs complain that not European...
Print Round-Up: Telegraph Revamps iPhone App; Property Week's New B2B Site; Blackwell Mags Service - 2 days ago

—Telegraph: Telegraph Media Group has tweaked its free iPhone app with faster speeds, offline...
Digital Agency TH_NK Gets £1 Million VC Funds - 2 days ago

Digital comms agency TH_NK has received £1...
Report: Google Wins Russia Foothold With Mail.ru Search Deal - 2 days ago

Having been thwarted by government antitrust...

Ohmynews International

Amazon Ingredients Cooked European Style - 7 hours ago

What does sophisticated European cuisine have to do with Amazon-Brazilian spices and the regions...
[Opinion] Critic of Kyrgyz President Faces Jail - 2 days ago

When General Ismail Isakov accused the Kyrgyz president of being involved with a 2002 slaying of...
Vietnamese Immigrant Tells Her Story - 2 days ago

Truong Thi Quyen, the owner of the "Little Asia" restaurant in the heart of Brussels has just...
Amazon Business Show Rakes In $11.5m - 2 days ago

More than 200 small and medium regional companies participated in the sessions where buyers from...
The Universal Lessons Of The Holocaust - 2 days ago

While the trial of Demjanjuk will not shed new light on his role in the events of 1942-43, it can...

Pitchfork: Today

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FT.com - Media and Internet

US publishers join forces in digital venture - yesterday

Five of the US's largest publishers will launch an independent digital venture as early as Monday as...
Improving outlook for UK ad spending - yesterday

The forecast for advertising revenues has been revised upwards after 18 months of cuts to estimates...
Woods an asset even with 'transgressions' - 2 days ago

The media firestorm that followed Tiger Woods' accident is hardly a narrative sponsors had in mind...
Thomson Reuters to overhaul news website - 2 days ago

Thomson Reuters is expected to introduce an overhauled version of its news website on Friday, in an...
20 questions: Guy Hands, Chairman, Terra Firma - 2 days ago

'Relaxing - I do so only rarely' Guy Hands is chairman and chief investment officer of Terra Firma,...

News from Brand Republic

BBC continues global rollout of Lonely Planet Magazine - 2 days ago

LONDON - BBC Magazines has brokered five new international licensing deals for its controversial...
Dennis acquires Land Rover Monthly - 2 days ago

LONDON - Dennis Publishing has acquired specialist car magazine and website Land Rover Monthly for...
Titan promotes World Cup draw - 2 days ago

LONDON - The screening of the FIFA World Cup draw in Trafalgar Square today (4 December) is to be...
Starbucks to run world's biggest Facebook ad campaign to date - 2 days ago

LONDON - From tomorrow Facebook members in 16 countries including the UK and US will be served ads...
Labour on the hunt for social networking and email marketing experts - 2 days ago

LONDON - The Labour Party is looking to increase the size of its new media team ahead of next year's...

Guardian Unlimited World Latest

US downplays 2011 Afghanistan troop withdrawal target - 2 hours ago

Obama administration softens July 2011 Afghanistan troop withdrawal target by describing timeline as...
Kercher trial: Italian system queried - 20 hours ago

Were the judges in the trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito influenced by factors beyond the...
Greek police clash with protesters - 7 hours ago

Greek police clash with students in Athens as thousands march on anniversary of death of Alexandros...
Russia mourns 109 killed in nightclub - 20 hours ago

Owners arrested as officials rule out terrorismRussia was coming to terms last night with its most...
Israel accused over Gaza patients - 1 hour ago

• Palestinians interrogated and held without charge • Questioning is a security measure, government...

Digg / World & Business

Right Wing "Hero" Made up Hijacking Story, Airline Says - 1 hour ago

It's a little easier to understand why a man who claimed to have thwarted a potential terrorist...
No Bin Laden reports 'in years' - 3 hours ago

Defence Secretary Robert Gates admits the US has had no reliable information on Osama Bin Laden's...
USDA: Farm Income Will Drop 34.5 % - 3 hours ago

Net cash income is expected to fall about 28 percent; net farm income is expected to be $6.5 billion...
Horrific Fire in Russian Night Club Kills Over 100 - 5 hours ago

The death toll of a horrific fire in Lame Horse night club in the city of Perm, in Russia’s Ural...
Obama the Mortal: Democrats Weep - 7 hours ago

Obama's messianic cult simply expected too much of him... Some parishioners in the Church of Obama...

MediaGuardian.co.uk

UK 'could be one of first countries out of ad recession' - 2 days ago

Media buyer Group M forecasts 0.1% yearly increase in ad spend in 2010, with last months of 2009...
Comcast-NBC deal faces regulatory test - 2 days ago

Federal commissioner says tie-up faces 'a very steep climb' in effort to create powerful new force...
Sunday Express payout to Earl Spencer - 2 days ago

Newspaper made false allegations that earl and his daughter had acted improperly over his...
NoW pays libel damages to union leader - 2 days ago

Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite union, paid damages by News of the World over false...
Media Talk - 2 days ago

Matt Wells is joined by Maggie Brown and John Plunkett on this week's Media Talk, and we start by...
Models strip off for climate-change video - 2 days ago

Supermodels are stripping off, Minnesotans are singing out … across the world and the political...
We're no thieves – despite what Murdoch claims, says Google - 3 days ago

Search engine is like a 'virtual newsagent', says Google's UK director following accusation that it...

C21Media.net

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Project Syndicate

Harold James: The Cycles of Economic Discontent

Every ten years or so, we think that a particular model of growth is so broken that it cannot be...
Jean-Michel Severino: Rendezvous with Africa on Climate

African countries' decision to act as a bloc at the Copenhagen climate-change summit is an important...
Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexander Likhotal: Playing Russian Roulette with Climate Change

Decision-makers have not faced up to just how close the world may be to the climate “tipping point.”...
Suat Kiniklioglu: “Neo-Ottoman” Turkey?

Nowadays, many observers are obsessing over the supposed "loss" of Turkey and what it means for...
Graca Machel, Wangari Maathai and Mary Robinson: Africa’s Stake in the Climate-Change Debate

While industrialized countries worry about how climate-change mitigation will affect their economies...

Gawker

Somali Pirates: Ballin' Dangerously Out of Control [Pirates] - 1 hour ago

Bling Bling, go the Somali Pirates. After all, what, you think they do it because it's fun to be a...
The Nature of President Obama's Death Threats: Peaked Early, Still Bad, Mostly Scary White Guys [Death Threats] - 2 hours ago

Touchy subject of would-rather-not proportions: threats made against the 44th American President....
Because There Won't Always be a "Subway Hero" Ready for their Big Moment. [Not Afraid To Be Servicey] - 3 hours ago

Yesterday, 1:15PM, Union Square Uptown 4/5/6: Guy slips into the gap. "He suffered head, neck,...
Britney Spears Was Molested as a Young Girl, According to Her Hotmess Courtney Loves [Gossip Roundup] - 4 hours ago

Hotmess Courtney Love reports that hotmess Britney Spears was molested as a kid. Usher is a girlyman...
Saturday Night Special [Open Thread] - 17 hours ago

Is everyone tired of sex? Tiger might be. Politicians definitely aren't, and neither are Tay²....

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Neo-Cons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over "War President" - 1 hour ago

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Divisions within the Federal Reserve: Failures in the Management of the Financial Crisis - 5 hours ago

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The Great Game: U.S., NATO War In Afghanistan - 17 hours ago

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Information Liberation

The Great Global Warming Swindle

The Ice is Melting, the Hurricanes are blowing, and it is all YOUR FAULT! SCARED? Don't Be, It's not...
BBC News: Himalayan glaciers melting deadline 'a mistake'

The UN panel on climate change warning that Himalayan glaciers could melt to a fifth of current...
Media complicity in Climategate: The global-cooling cover-up is not considered newsworthy

A tale of destroyed documents, fraud, conspiracy and the misuse of millions of government dollars...
Gore's mountain of misinformation

Holland*s Elsevier reports on new research that once more shows Al Gore faked his findings in An...
Climategate: CRU looks to *big oil* for support

One of the favorite put-downs from people who think they have the moral high ground in the climate...

t r u t h o u t

The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women - 2 hours ago

Why women have signed onto marijuana reform -- and why they could be the movement's game-changers...
We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Water - 2 hours ago

Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American...
Morales Highly Favored for Re-election in Bolivia - 5 hours ago

The Associated Press reports: "A victory by Morales, who led opinion polls with about 55...
A Nation of Ostriches and Peacocks - 5 hours ago

A new Pew poll finds Americans are at record levels of isolationism, although large numbers are...
Obama Heads to Hill to Push on Health Bill - 6 hours ago

The Associated Press is reporting that President Obama, urged by Democrats, is headed for Congress...

Boing Boing

Just look at this awesome banana slicer. - yesterday

Just look at it. Banana Slicer Previously:Just look at this awesome banana bunker. Boing...
Photographers win British war on photography? - 6 hours ago

Is Britain's war on photography coming to an end? After the Independent newspaper got senior...
For iPhone in C minor - 7 hours ago

A group of students at the University of Michigan has formed a smartphone orchestra. Attached to the...
Latest lame UK gov't excuse for supressing drug policy report: "if we release it, it will be hard to manage the news" - 8 hours ago

The British government has reached new heights of absurdity in stonewalling the release of a report...
US Trade Rep weasels and squirms when cornered on an airplane and questioned about secret copyright treaty - 14 hours ago

Read this account of James Love's conversation with Ambassador Ron Kirk, the head US Trade...

NYT > Home Page

Copenhagen Talks Tough on Climate Protest Plans - 1 hour ago

An elaborate holding facility with three dozen steel cages has been created to accommodate over 350...
How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan - 8 hours ago

When the history of the Obama presidency is written, the day he decided on a troop surge may prove...
Gates Calls July 2011 the Beginning, Not End, of Afghan Withdrawal - 1 hour ago

Perhaps only a “handful” of U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan in 2011, Defense Secretary Robert M....
Suburbs See a Challenge as Residents Grow Older - 16 hours ago

As many New York suburbs find themselves with an increasingly older population, communities must...
Leftist Claims Upset Victory in Romanian Vote - 1 hour ago

Mircea Geoana, the former foreign minister and leader of the leftist Social Democrats, declared...

Variety.com

'Blind Side' tackles box office competition - 6 hours ago

Film News: Football pic tops weekend with $20.4 million -- "The Blind Side" sacked the competish at...
Apple sets sights on Lala.com - 6 hours ago

Music News: Company nears completion of purchase -- Apple is near completion of the purchase of the...
Variety celebrates third annual Power of Youth event - 22 hours ago

Front Page: Honorees get festive on the Paramount backlot -- At Variety's third annual Power of...
Cage wins U.N. award for humanitarian work - yesterday

Film News: Also appointed goodwill ambassador -- Nicolas Cage has won a U.N. award night for his...
John Adams, Jayce Ogren, Kronos Quartet, Los Angeles Philaharmonic - yesterday

Music Reviews: It was mostly a lineup of concert music penned by film composers, along with a...
Oscar loves foreign actresses - yesterday

Eye on the Oscars: The Actress: 5 of last 6 women to give Acad speeches were foreign born -- For the...
Cotillard has right number in 'Nine' - yesterday

Eye on the Oscars: The Actress: Oscar winner sings, finds unlikely role model -- In "Nine," Marion...

Fast Company

Soap Opera: An Artist Lathers the Lever House With History - yesterday

The New York headquarters of global soap corporation Unilever is a work of art itself. The Lever...
Thought-Powered Fingers for Amputees, 11 Other Feverish Stories This Week on Fast Company - yesterday

Aside from those spammers taking advantage of the swine-flu frenzy by sending virus-laced e-mails...
Jeff Swartz: When Was the Last Time You Changed Your Mind About Something Important? - yesterday
10 Ethical Travel Destinations, and Why You Should Care - 2 days ago

It's easy to see why some vacation spots are unethical. A region or country where locals live in...
The Art of the Idea: 8 Ways to Light the Bulb Above Your Head - 2 days ago

TIME: Top Stories

Meg Whitman: Is California Ready for Another Celebrity Governor? - 2 hours ago

Former eBay boss Meg Whitman is a socially moderate Republican with celebrity status, high name...
Obama's Afghanistan Policy: Separating Taliban, al-Qaeda - 1 hour ago

Obama's foreign policy takes a narrower view of American power -- we can't fight everyone all at...
Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting - 1 hour ago

Why the future may hold more old-school commodes
How Copenhagen Can Succeed By Failing - 1 hour ago

How Copenhagen Can Succeed By Failing
Did Amanda Knox Get a Fair Murder Trial? - 2 hours ago

Two years after her British roommate in Italy was found brutally murdered, the American college...

Think Progress

Obama Advisers Soften Afghanistan Timetable, Suggest U.S. Troops May Not Pull Out In 2011 - 5 hours ago

In his Afghanistan policy address last week, President Obama said we would “begin the transfer...
Report: CNBC Was Considering Hiring Dobbs Until Latino Groups Pushed Back - yesterday

This past Wednesday, CNBC dispelled rumors that were circulating throughout the week that former CNN...
Watergate redux: Break-ins reported at another climate research center. - yesterday

Burglars and hackers have attacked the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at the...
Blue Cross Blue Shield Lobbyists Quietly Helping Extreme Effort To Declare Health Reform Unconstitutional - yesterday

ThinkProgess has documented how the private health insurance industry is waging a duplicitous,...
Reminder: We need your support. - yesterday

Earlier this week, we asked you to consider donating to ThinkProgress. Hundreds of you responded to...

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