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News Corp. earnings report highlights need for coming corporate crack-up
The company's latest quarterly earnings report, issued this afternoon, paints a clear picture of why News Corp. is so keen on the separation. More
(1)Pink slips for a dozen-plus 'Daily News' staffers; vets Joanna Molloy and Albor Ruiz among them
It's unclear who's been let go and how widspread the cuts will be. Several high-profile bylines have been floated by sources, but we've so far been unable to confirm any names. More
(2)Robert Redford, unveiling new CNN show 'Chicagoland,' calls Rahm Emanuel 'tough, visionary'
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(1)'Times' editor Jill Abramson likes 'snowfalling' a lot better than 'native advertising'
Abramson also took a gentle dig at the concept of "native advertising," which she said was "for the conference set ... It's the buzzword of 2013's business model discussion at conferences"--such as the one at which she was presently speaking. More
(1)Joe Lhota 'won't ever wear a dress like Rudy Giuliani did'
Republican mayoral candidateJoe Lhota talks to reporters, uses an iPad, is fond of The Godfather trilogy, and sometimes drunk tweets. More
(2)An all-documentary movie-theater ground-breaking draws Michaels: Moore and Bloomberg
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Rolling Moss gathers more Ellies: Winners (and losers) at the National Magazine Awards
New York is a perennial favorite at the awards, known as the Ellies for the Alexander Calder-designed elephant stabiles presented to winners. There are so many Ellies floating around the magazine's Varick Street offices that several are scattered on a coffee table, among art books, in a coffee table in the editorial office's waiting area, like paperweights (though they weigh less than the books they sit atop). More
After an embarrassing error, media wag Howard Kurtz and Tina Brown 'part company'
Kurtz has had a bad week. He's come under the kind of fire even Brown doesn't like to get burned by, for a column that was retracted completely today after several rounds of modifications yesterday afternoon. More
Colin Myler opens up on the new Britainized 'Daily News'
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Video briefing: Celebrities for de Blasio, and an outfit for Bloomberg's budget
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the celebrities weighing in on the New York City mayor's race, and notes that a lot of them like Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. More
'New York Times' gets a new politics editor: Carolyn Ryan
Ryan's big claim to fame is the Times' blockbuster revelation that Eliot Spitzer was involved in an F.B.I. investigation into a prostitution ring, a report that ended Spitzer's career as Governor of New York. Back then, in 2008, she was the metro political editor.
On eve of big magazine award party, 'New York' takes home trophy for Sandy cover
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'My thoughts about government': Cuomo on his forthcoming book
Governor Andrew Cuomo said he and book publisher HarperCollins are "working through some of the entails of the contract still," for the freshman governor's book, slated to hit the shelf next week. More
The News Corp. crack-up target date: June 30
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'New York Times' unloads free newspapers on digital subscribers, moves to No. 2 in circulation
The Times had a combined print and digital average weekday circulation of 1.87 million between October and March, up 17.6 percent from the same six-month period a year earlier, according to the latest figures from the Alliance for Audited Media. More
