CNN Student news: Daily Discussion
22 February 2012, 5:28 pm
February 23, 2012

news articles linking alcohol to crimes or accidents increase support for liquor law enforcement
22 February 2012, 3:45 pm
Reading a newspaper article about the role alcohol played in an injury accident or violent crime makes people more supportive of enforcing alcohol laws, a new study suggests. Researchers had participants read actual news reports, randomly selected from newspapers across the United States, about violent crimes and various accidental injuries -- half of which were edited to mention the role of ...

Tony Blair’s Wife Sues news Corp., Convicted Phone Hacker
22 February 2012, 12:46 pm
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife Cherie sued news Corp. and a former private investigator for its now-defunct news of the World tabloid for hacking into her phone.

Yahoo news hires Virginia Heffernan as national correspondent
22 February 2012, 5:05 am
More exciting personnel news from the purple mothership: Yahoo news has hired Virginia Heffernan, a veteran of the New York Times, as national correspondent. Heffernan will cover "culture and politics from a digital perspective," the company said in a release. Heffernan will be based in Yahoo's New York offices, reporting to managing editor Hillary Frey. [...]

Yahoo news hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent
22 February 2012, 5:05 am
Yahoo news has hired Olivier Knox, Congressional correspondent for Agence France-Press, to be its White House correspondent--the first in Yahoo's 16-year history. Knox--who has spent more than a decade with AFP covering politics, including eight years covering the White House--starts on Feb. 13. He will be based in Washington and report to politics editor Chris [...]

Fox news on top: Cable net celebrates 10 years at #1 in ratings
22 February 2012, 5:05 am
Last fall, Fox news celebrated its 15th anniversary with a lavish party in New York. Fox news president Roger Ailes, who launched the channel in 1996, toasted 700 or so staffers that night, telling them, "Losing is highly overrated as a learning experience." On Tuesday afternoon, when Nielsen releases its final ratings for the month [...]

news sites on the mobile web: vast room for improvement
21 February 2012, 2:38 pm
Many news publishers focus their mobile strategies on platform-specific apps—but the mobile web may actually be more important, since a mobile website is easier to discover, link to, and share from a mobile device. Damon Kiesow, senior product manager for the Boston Globe, recently examined the mobile websites of over 100 U.S. newspapers. Here’s what he found… In this spreadsheet , Kiesow ...

NBC news and RLTV Premiere New Live Consumer Finance Show for Boomers and Seniors
21 February 2012, 10:46 am
BALTIMORE, Feb. 21, 2012  /PRnewswire/ -- One of America's most popular personal finance experts, award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Jean Chatzky, makes her television hosting debut with ...

Rediff.com Introduces Rediff ‘Realtime news Search’
21 February 2012, 6:52 am
Rediff.com India Limited , India’s leading online provider of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services introduces “Rediff Realtime news Search”, an innovative news search engine which delivers fresh and recent news from India and the world.

news Corp to launch "Sun on Sunday" UK tabloid February 26
20 February 2012, 9:27 am
LONDON (Reuters) - news International, the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's news Corp group, announced on Sunday it would publish a Sunday edition of Britain's scandal-hit Sun tabloid for the first time next weekend. In an internal memo to all staff, news International chief executive Tom Mockridge said the first edition of 'The Sun on Sunday' would appear on February 26. The ...