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• Murdoch withdraws bid for Newsday

  - 2008-05-11

  MELVILLE, N.Y. MCT -- News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has dropped his $580 million bid to purchase Newsday, his spokeswoman said Saturday. Murdoch's withdrawal leaves two other bids for Tribune Co. to consider: Cablevision Systems Corp.'s $650 million offer or a $580 million bid from New York Daily...

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• Sun-Times Media Group Announces Distribution Agreement For Home Delivery, Suburban Single-Copy Distribution to Chicago Tribune Company; Move Will Create Efficiencies, Improve Customer Service

  - 2007-08-08

  CHICAGO -- Sun-Times Media Group, Inc. (NYSE: SVN) today said that the Sun-Times News Group, its operating subsidiary, had entered into a contract with Chicago Tribune Company for home delivery and suburban single-copy delivery of the Chicago Sun-Times and most of its suburban publications. "We reported to you previously...

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• No small change

  - 2007-03-14

  There are a number of tactics local officials use to discourage journalists and the general public from requesting public documents they don't want us to see. This being Sunshine Week, a national media celebration of open government, we thought we'd focus on a few. There's the "playing-dumb ploy," in which...

  Tags: bureaucrat, Government, SOFTWARE, Tribune Co., U.S. Senate

• US critical of Cuban moves against foreign reporters

  - 2007-02-23

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States on Friday criticized Cuba as a "police state that cannot tolerate independent journalists" after Havana's communist government told a US and a Mexican reporter to leave. "It is ironic that one of the last communist governments in the world has expelled Marx," Eric...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Cuba, Government, journalist, SOFTWARE, Tribune Co.

• Hopefuls to become next UN chief make their pitches

  - 2006-09-29

  PARIS AFP — Five of the seven candidates competing to take over as UN chief from Kofi Annan made pitches for the post, outlining in newspaper articles the major reforms they would impose on the world organisation. Sri Lanka's Jayantha Dhanapala, Afghanistan's Ashraf Ghani, India's Shashi Tharoor, Latvia's Vaira Vike-Freiberga...

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• PIRATED SOFTWARE MARKET MAJOR THREAT TO DEVELOPERS OVERVIEW

  - 2006-08-02

  According to "Bahrain Tribune", pirated software market is booming globally and is posing a threat for the developers. There are various retail shops in the Kingdom selling latest software's, games and films. The Tribune team visited one of thesAccording to "Bahrain Tribune", pirated software market is booming globally and is...

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• BAHRAIN: PIRATED SOFTWARE MARKET MAJOR THREAT TO DEVELOPERS - OVERVIEW.

  - 2006-08-02

  According to "Bahrain Tribune", pirated software market is booming globally and is posing a threat for the developers. There are various retail shops in the Kingdom selling latest software's, games and films. The Tribune team visited one of According to "Bahrain Tribune", pirated software market ...

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• Airbus A400M military plane faces long delays

  - 2006-07-19

  PARIS AFP — The development programme for the Airbus military transport plane A400M will be delayed by between 18 months and three years, the French newspaper La Tribune reported, citing sources close to the company. Under the original timetable for the A400M project, which has cost an estimated 6.0...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Airbus S.A.S., Government, SOFTWARE, Strategy, Tribune Co.

• Newspaper ideological bias or "statist quo"? The acid test

  - 2006-07-01

  I Introduction FOR 30 YEARS, debate has swirled around the alleged "liberal bias" of U.S. journalists, and especially journalists who write for publications such as Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Sutter (2001) has written that a veritable "cottage industry" has sprung up as...

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• National Press Club Honors Outstanding Journalism

  - 2006-06-12

  WASHINGTON, June 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- CNN and the Chicago Tribune were multiple winners in the 2006 National Press Club Awards, while Tom Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press, won the John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award for his efforts in support of the public's right to...

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