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+ Gannett may make more staff cuts at newspapers, salary cuts at television stations + — the parent company of The Honolulu Advertiser — could be laying off more newspaper workers and cutting ...

+ CBC's Newman retires after distinguished career + CBC Senior Parliamentary Editor Don Newman is aknowledged by the House of Commons following question period on Parliament Hill in ...

+ Rupert Murdoch Joins The Crowd + The rumors circulated last week, and this week News Corp. confirmed them, stating that 30%, or roughly 420, of MySpace's employees ...

+ Michele Norris Goes On Book Leave + June 19, 2009 · Michele Norris announces that she is going on book leave until mid-September. Norris is working on a book ...

+ Technology won't kill newspapers + Will newspapers wither on the vine? Will they go the way of the passenger pigeon and the sturdy canvas tent? (Ah, the brush of a ...

+ Walmart Wraps PR Review by Adding Three Shops to Roster + NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- After a lengthy agency review for its multimillion-dollar consumer PR business, Walmart has selected ...

+ Why Goodby's Talent Director Goes Far Afield to Find 'Outstanding Hires' + NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Ten years ago, Zach Canfield started his career at Goodby Silverstein & Partners as an assistant to ...

+ Bob Cook exiting Twentieth Television + Bob Cook is stepping down as president and COO of Twentieth Television, News Corp.'s TV syndication division, after nine years. Cook ...

+ Harvard Paper on P2P Flawed But Worth Reading + Two Harvard Business School economists tackled the effects of digital piracy in a new working paper titled “File-Sharing and ...

+ FCC, Jazz Times, Nokia's Comes With Music + -- After more than 20 years of publications, Jazz Times has suspended publications as it attempts to find a buyer for its assets. The ...

+ Canoe Ventures Rethinks First Addressable TV Plan + NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Canoe Ventures sprung a leak this week when its first product, Community Addressable Messaging, or CAM, was ...

+ Mercedes Gives Rational Reasons to Buy + Mercedes' dramatic entrance NEW YORK Mercedes-Benz USA's $75 million campaign to launch its 2010 E-Class model touts new technology, ...

+ No porn, or else + Google has acknowledged that the Chinese government asked it to disable a search feature with the goal of censoring pornography, but ...

+ Former Volvo, Peugeot Marketer James LaMarre Jr. Dies at 92 + DETROIT (AdAge.com) -- Adman James LaMarre Jr., who had a marketing career that spanned more than 50 years and an active retirement, ...

+ Bankruptcy court could save Jammie Thomas + Bankruptcy court would not have sheltered Jammie Thomas-Rasset much from the $1.92 million debt she now owes the music industry before ...

+ Tennis Star Maria Sharapova Guest Edits and Graces the Cover of ESPN The Magazine + Maria Sharapova took on another challenge – editing ESPN The Magazine’s third-annual Revenge of the Jocks issue. ...

+ Twitter Is Effective, But How Effective + It may be difficult to fathom with the hullabaloo going on about Twitter, but people bought music before the service launched. In ...

+ US Destroyer Poised To Intercept N Korea Ship - Fox News + DOW JONES NEWSWIRES The U.S. Navy plans to intercept a North Korean-flagged ship suspected of carrying weapons material in violation ...

+ Aung San Suu Kyi Awaits End of Trial + Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi spends her 64th birthday locked in prison awaiting the end of her trial as worldwide ...

+ Pakistani Refugees Head Home + This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. © 2009 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights ...

+ Does the CEO Make an Ad More Credible + Charles Schwab often appears his firm's spots. Good news, relatively speaking, for CEOs who'd like to get their faces on TV: In ...

+ $40 Million to $50 Million + DETROIT (AdAge.com) -- General Motors Corp. has been tight-lipped about what it's planning to spend while in bankruptcy, but Ad Age ...

+ Wendy Williams Makes Leap From Radio to TV + NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Is America ready to say, "How you doin'?" to New York-based radio-personality-cum-daytime-talk-show-host Wendy ...

+ Video Interview With Michael Pollan, New York Times Best-Selling Author + http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/06/elephantjournalcom-founder-waylon-lewis-interviews-michael-pollan-re-how-to-communicate-green-t ...

+ In-Store Media Must Change With the Times + NEW YORK The way consumers respond to in-store promotional messages and media is changing, with traditional appeals losing some ...

+ The New York Times Company and UCompareHealthCare.com Launch New Direct-to-Doctor Patient Gateway Custom Profile Feature for Online Health Care Searches + About Group , announced today the launch of a new patient gateway custom profile feature on its Web site that allows doctors to reach ...

+ Nokia Signs With Germany's GEMA + Mobile handset manufacturer Nokia has concluded a Europe-wide licensing agreement with the German collecting society GEMA in Munich ...

+ Penguin Jams With Island Records On Web + "Breakers" will launch on July 6. Once a month Island Records artists, or their albums and videos pitched by Island management, will ...

+ The Washington Post Chronicles Weddings and Relationships in Washington + WASHINGTON - (Business Wire) Love will take center stage in The Washington Post’s Style & Arts section beginning ...

+ Sky News Walks Off With Top Digital Award + Sky News has been named best news service at the 2009 Broadcast Digital awards. The awards, organised by leading industry magazine ...

+ Google, Facebook rush Iranian language support + Twitter has the starring role as opening up Net communications about Iran's turbulent politics , but Google and Facebook are jumping ...

+ CBS's Cooke isolated in China + Marsha Cooke, CBS News's Asia bureau chief. BEIJING -- CBS News's Asia bureau chief Marsha Cooke was quarantined in a Beijing ...

+ APA benefits from agency merger + WME's loss is APA's gain. The agency has signed actors Taryn Manning, David Alpay and Dorian Missick and director Andrzej Bartkowiak. ...

+ Lukasiewicz promoted at NBC + Mark Lukasiewicz has been named vp NBC News specials and digital media. He will report to MSNBC president Phil Griffin. Since 2006, ...

+ Murdoch sells Weekly Standard mag to Anschutz + Clarity Media Group said Wednesday Anschutz was buying the conservative magazine from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The purchase price ...

+ Jewish fest sets online initiative + The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will launch a new online resource about Jewish film on June 23. The SFJFF's New Media ...

+ The Emmys Moves Back to Original Date + -By Marc Berman The 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which was moved up one week from its originally scheduled Sunday, Sept. 20 air ...

+ WGA Links Earnings to Voter Eligibility + -By Jay A. Fernandez As Tony Soprano would say: You're only as good as your last envelope. The WGA East and WGA West have instituted ...

+ PlanetOut Merges With Here Networks + -By Paul Bond Here Networks on Wednesday completed a merger with the struggling PlanetOut to create a new company called Here Media. ...

+ Twitter-clueless Rep. Hoekstra is the new Ted Stevens + (Credit: Twitter) You can't make this stuff up: Representative Peter Hoekstra, a Republican from Michigan, set off a political-blog ...

+ Did Olive Garden Pull Its Ads From Show + CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- The end of Olive Garden's relationship with "The Late Show With David Letterman" has resulted in a lesson in ...

+ Can Bruno Save MySpace From Cultural Irrelevance + NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Sacha Baron Cohen, or "Bruno," wants you to "freund" him on MySpace, or as he will call it in the upcoming ...

+ Want a job Give Bozeman your Facebook, Google passwords + If you're planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, Mont., be prepared to hand over much more than your references and ...

+ H&R Block Moves to DDB + NEW YORK H&R Block has shifted creative duties on its ad account to DDB without a review, the Omnicom Group shop said today. ...

+ FDA Letter Puts Health of Primary Zicam Brands in Doubt + NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- What do you do when a brand that accounts for 40% of your sales and $20 million of your advertising is slapped ...

+ How a Hockey Coach's Burrito Habit Turned Into an Ad Campaign + CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Hockey players during the playoffs are a superstitious lot, hence the springtime ritual of growing out shaggy ...

+ Reality TV Equivalent of Summer Blockbusters, Beach Novels + MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- One of the more perplexing pop-culture paradoxes is the inversion of seasonal escapism. Because just when ...

+ Verdict Reached In Minn. Music Downloading Case + It was a retrial for Thomas-Rasset, who was also found in 2007 to have illegally shared music files. The new trial was ordered after ...

+ Sony beefs up Blu-ray strategy + (Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO--Even as Blu-ray Disc and Blu-ray player sales are growing, Sony is looking to build out its ...

+ An LG PR Gimmick That's All Thumbs + NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- How about a contest to determine the country's fastest SMS texters? That 2007 idea for a small-scale PR ...