Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman of the New York Times Co., has had his hand
s full lately. Last year, he warded off a campaign by a Morgan Stanley fund manager to abolish the newspaper publisher's two-tiered shareholder structure. Then on January 27, a new group of dissident investors informed him that they, too, were mounting an effort to shake things up at the company. [Click for MORE]
All of them end up in the garbage.
"We're not asking for it," Finch said. "And it's just littering our streets." [Click for MORE]
The Wall Street Journal miles away from Wall Street? Covering sports? Yes, the paper that has chronicled business from Lower Manhattan for 119 years is making plans to start a sports page and move to the Midtown offices of its corporate parent, the News Corporation, according to people briefed on the matters.
Seven weeks after taking over The Journal, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of the News Corporation, is making good on his plans to integrate it with his media empire and to broaden the paper’s interests and appeal. [Click for MORE]
By Bill BoyarskyAt the USC conference on news and the criminal justice system, a luncheon companion, an Iranian, asked me if journalists were jailed as political prisoners in the United States.
No, I answered. They don't have to be put in prison to be silenced. Economics are silencing them. Big corporations control the major media. They are slashing costs and dumping journalists. The survivors don't want to lose their health insurance. Who needs government to silence journalists? [Click for MORE]
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Falling Soldier, iconic Spanish Civil War photo by Robert Capa.
To the small group of photography experts aware of its existence, it was known simply as “the Mexican suitcase.” And in the pantheon of lost modern cultural treasure
s, it was surrounded by the same mythical aura as Hemingway’s early manuscripts, which vanished from a train station in 1922.
The suitcase — actually three flimsy cardboard valises — contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, leaving behind the contents of his Paris darkroom.
Capa assumed that the work had been lost during the Nazi invasion, and he died in 1954 on assignment in Vietnam still thinking so. [Click for MORE]
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