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The new look Google News
This is what the new Google News UK story box looks like under the new publishing regime. Their local partner is the Press Association (PA). Duplicate deletion, or whatever euphemism you want to find, it’s certainly put PA at the top of the pecking order.
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Google News – publisher!
Here is Josh Cohen’s announcement about Google News: Today we’re launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers – including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the…
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CNN drops Reuters TV
Every time an agency contract comes up for review at a news organization, there will always be someone saying: “Couldn’t we just do without [insert name of agency here]?” Generally, it is what’s known as a negotiating tactic. This time it’s Tony Maddox of CNN International, and the agency is Reuters, and apparently he means…
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Entertainment journalism
The Britney Spears Allure story has attracted a fair bit of attention but I was slightly gobsmacked to see this admission in one comment piece: Britney, pop star and mother-of-the-year candidate, apparently agreed to pose for the cover of Allure and to sit for an interview with writer Judith Newman. For four days Newman chased…