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Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:05:21 -0800
Yahoo News has hired Olivier Knox, Congressional correspondent for Agence France-Press, to be its White House correspondent--the first in Yahoo's 16-year history. Knox--who has spent more than a decade with AFP covering politics, including eight years covering the White House--starts on Feb. 13. He will be based in Washington and report to politics editor Chris [...]
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Yahoo News hires Virginia Heffernan as national correspondent
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:05:32 -0800
More exciting personnel news from the purple mothership: Yahoo News has hired Virginia Heffernan, a veteran of the New York Times, as national correspondent. Heffernan will cover "culture and politics from a digital perspective," the company said in a release. Heffernan will be based in Yahoo's New York offices, reporting to managing editor Hillary Frey. [...]
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Fox News on top: Cable net celebrates 10 years at #1 in ratings
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:05:06 -0800
Last fall, Fox News celebrated its 15th anniversary with a lavish party in New York. Fox News president Roger Ailes, who launched the channel in 1996, toasted 700 or so staffers that night, telling them, "Losing is highly overrated as a learning experience." On Tuesday afternoon, when Nielsen releases its final ratings for the month [...]
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News Corp to launch "Sun on Sunday" tabloid February 26
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:26:57 -0800
LONDON (Reuters) - News International, the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp group, announced on Sunday it would publish a Sunday edition of the scandal-hit Sun tabloid for the first time next weekend. In an internal memo to all staff, News International chief executive Tom Mockridge said the first edition of 'The Sun on Sunday' would appear on February 26. The announcement ...
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