Pain Is Colorblind
Date: 30 November 2014
By JOHN ELIGON
John ELIGON
News analysis; specious question of why black Americans are not as outraged by black-on-black killings as by police shootings of black people is often raised in wake of fatal incidents like that in Ferguson, Mo; many members of black community insist that such a question is insulting, and overlooks fact that anger about such killings are about the system, not just the death itself.
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Vox Media Valued at Nearly $400 Million After Investment
Date: 01 December 2014
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Leslie KAUFMAN
Vox Media will announce that it has closed $46.5 million round of financing from New York investment firm General Atlantic; investment values company at $380 million, and comes at time when digital-media companies are suddenly of interest to venture-capital firms.
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When the Forces of Media Disruption Hit Home
Date: 01 December 2014
By DAVID CARR
David CARR
David Carr The Media Equation column reflects on round of buyouts being offered by The New York Times in effort to cut staff and stretch existing revenue over smaller cost base; notes that company is likely to lose people with many decades of professional experience and hard-won skills, but holds that newspaper's options could be far worse in a business as challenged as journalism.
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Ailing U.N. News Service Gets $25 Million
Date: 01 December 2014
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
Nick CUMMING-BRUCE
Integrated Regional Information Networks will restart operations in January 2015 as independent, nonprofit media venture with promise of $25 million over 15 years from Jynwel Foundation, which is owned by family of Hong Kong-based investor Jho Low; IRIN was operated under wing of United Nations office that coordinates humanitarian aid, until UN decided midyear that it would stop financing agency on Dec 31.
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Ground Wars End, and So Does a Chapter in Military-Press Relationships
Date: 01 December 2014
By ERNESTO LONDOÑO
Ernesto LONDOÑO
Ernesto Londono Editorial Observer relates his experience as an embedded reporter during eight years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan; describes conflicting emotions he and other reporters felt as they tried to remain critical of the military while depending on it for their own survival.
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6 Q's About the News | What's That Smell? It's the Latest Blockbuster.
Date: 01 December 2014
By SHANNON DOYNE
Shannon DOYNE
How are some theaters trying to lure back young viewers?
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