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| 8:15PM 1/20/2011
Wondering how much it will cost to read stories on The New York Times's website once the newspaper sets up its long-anticipated pay wall? While a final price hasn't been set yet, unidentified sources told Bloomberg News that it'll come to less than $20 per month.
| 9:00AM 12/31/2010
With the launch of the Apple iPad, the retirement of Larry King and the ascension of WikiLeaks, 2010 was a year for the media history books. Here's columnist Jonathan Berr's list of the top media stories of the year.
| 3:00AM 10/21/2010
Tribune CEO Randy Michaels is expected to resign after The New York Times reported he has fostered a sexist "frat house" culture at the news company. Employees said he encouraged sexual innuendo, profanity, poker parties and other bawdy behavior, according to the story.
| 8:30AM 8/06/2010
Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including the stock with the best analyst rating on the Standard & Poor's 500, Bill Gates's 10 life rules and what the next Warren Buffett is buying.
| 9:20AM 9/25/2009
Once upon a time, Capitol Hill was teeming with newspapermen looking for the obvious and hidden, so they could inform the American people. Today, the press is still spending plenty of time in Washington -- but for a much different reason. An industry representative sought tax breaks for the...
| 11:40AM 9/15/2009
A former owner of The Boston Globe visited the newspaper recently. Stephen Taylor, whose great-grandfather started the newspaper, is looking to bring it back into the family. But he is facing competition from Platinum Equity, a private equity firm from Beverly Hills, California, which also visited...
| 2:30PM 6/30/2009
In a thought-provoking column in Jeffrey Tierney's blog, Geoffrey Miller, author of a new book on consumer behavior, asked readers to make two lists; one of the 10 most expensive items they'd ever paid for (including services, experiences, taxes, divorce settlements, etc.) and one of the 10 things...
| 12:15PM 5/12/2009
A recent episode of Speaking of Faith on NPR discussed children's spiritual development and the guest, a rabbi, noted that schools do a very good job of teaching children to be "workers and consumers" (but not much else). A little 20-minute online video could very well change that, if a story in...
| 8:00AM 3/08/2009
While his name may conjure up images of Wild West gunslingers, Carlos Slim is, by all accounts, among the shyest multi-billionaires in the world. However, as he increases his holdings of The New York Times (NYT) and appears to be considering a possible takeover of Saks (SKS), it seems likely that...
| 6:00PM 6/13/2008
Everyone has the list: the list of what we can and can not live without. And in these days of $4 gas (it's nearing $5 already where I live in Southern California, by the way), we're all dusting off these lists to see where we can cut costs.I recently discovered an obvious category I can cut out of...