After 33 years at the paper, Tom Fiedler will retire as executive editor of the Miami Herald, announced Miami Herald Media Co. president and publisher David Landsberg today.
Ad-supported cable has garnered a 55.4 percent household share year-to-date, compared to only a 40.4 percent share by the six broadcast networks, during prime time.
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MySpace’s toppling of Yahoo in terms of pageviews may merely be a sign of Yahoo’s embrace of the efficient, Web 2.0-associated AJAX technology, which MySpace does not use.
The FTC has settled for $100,000 with the final defendants charged with violating the Do Not Call provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule by calling consumers to sell them DirecTV satellite television subscriptions, DMNews reports.
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PDF editions of newspapers, initially developed at the Financial Times of London, are rolling out in Canada, the UK and elsewhere, Media Life reports.
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Granholm Michigan has enacted a ban that will halt the growth of billboards sprouting along its highways - except for the 1,000 to 2,000 outstanding permits that currently exist for unbuilt billboards.
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Why did GSD&M, Wal-Mart’s agency of twenty years, turn down the retailer’s offer to repitch for the creative assignment, particularly since, with DraftFCB out of the picture, the agency may have had a strong chance to fight its way back onto the roster?
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Spurred by the popularity of MySpace, News Corp. sites have overtaken Yahoo sites as the most viewed by U.S. internet users, according to new industry data cited by News Corp. on Tuesday.
