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Regulators Reject BBC Plan on Web Video News (New York Times)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:57:54 GMT
The BBC Trust and Ofcom, the British media regulator, said the proposal would have hurt rivals in the private sector, including the Web sites of newspapers.
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Rutgers scouting report (The Record)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:29:38 GMT
North Jersey Media Group: NorthJersey.com, the Online Edition of The Record and The Herald News is your local source for the latest coverage of local news, local sports, and local entertainment, with stories, photos and videos, as well as regional, national and world coverage, including obituaries, weather, traffic and complete classifieds listings for Northern New Jersey.
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Independent News & Media to cut 90 jobs (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:12:00 GMT
Irish publisher Independent News & Media will axe about 90 jobs at its London-based newspapers Independent and Independent on Sunday in a bid to save more than £10m.
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British media flays umpires for Kanpur ‘farce’ (The Hindu)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:28:16 GMT
London: India’s Duckworth/Lewis win in the Kanpur one-dayer against England was dubbed ‘farcical’ by an angry British media, which lambasted umpires Russell Tiffin and Amiesh Sahiba for their “lack of common sense” in conducting th Tue,http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/News+%26+Media+%3E+Weather/SIG=12it7s1j0/*http%3A//www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/864064/BBC-Trust-rejects-plans-local-services/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:03:39 GMT Read More...

BBC Trust scraps plans for multi-million pound local video service (PrintWeek)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:45:23 GMT
Publishers of regional newspapers are jubilant today after the BBC Trust found against the BBC's plans to roll out a multi-million pound network of regional video news, sport and weather services.
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Frame Media Partners With People.com to Bring Celebrity News to Wireless Picture Frames (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:07:00 GMT
Frame Media, Inc., an Internet platform for personalized content to wireless photo frames, has inked a partnership with People.com to bring the latest celebrity news to wireless digital photo frames.
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Weather Service encourages use of weather radios (The News & Observer)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:39:17 GMT
The National Weather Service is encouraging citizens to buy receivers to hear its weather radio after deadly tornadoes raced across Johnston and Wilson counties this past weekend in the middle of the night.
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Regional newspapers boosted as BBC bosses are pressured into rejecting 68m plan for local news websites (Daily Mail)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:42:47 GMT
The BBC's controversial plans to increase its online local news coverage were thrown out today.
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