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On March 30, Ben Bradlee - who ran The Washington Post newsroom from 1965 to 1991 and still has an office - and his son Quinn will leave for the South Pacific on a voyage about which he will write a first-person piece for The New Yorker, reports Editor & Publisher.
In an interview with E&P, Bradlee claimed that newspapers are not dying. “I think it is an over-simplification to say the web is the answer. It is more complicated than that. They’ve got to find a way to attract readers to the newspaper. The design and the subjects covered.”
Gary Pruitt, CEO of McClatchy, recently spoke out about the supposed demise of newspapers, as well, saying, “Speaking as someone whose company is writing a $6.5 billion check to triple its newspaper holdings, I beg to differ.”
Radio stations in the U.K. reacted with outrage when they learned of a report by researchers from the University of the West of England which accused them of promoting excessive drinking.
The study looked at 1,200 hours of radio output,…
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In order to boost sales as much as possible during a time when…
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While the mobile phone market is poised for…
Consumers in all income segments are cutting back spending, and doing so to a greater extent recently than at the beginning of the second quarter, according to a comScore study examining changes in consumer attitudes and perceptions about the U.S. economy…
