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Today on radio: 'Getting Your Dough to Rise'
Host Chuck Noel has three interesting guests lined up for tonight's "Getting Your Dough to Rise" program at 6 on KSER-FM (90.7):
Date: 05/29/2012 | Bizblog
Times-Picayune to cut paper to 3 days a week
NEW ORLEANS -- The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, will no longer offer print editions seven days a week and instead plans to offer three printed issues a week starting in the fall. The change means New Orleans would become the largest metro area in the nation without a daily...
Date: 05/25/2012 | Business
Buffett says his firm likely to buy more papers
OMAHA, Neb. -- Warren Buffett says his company is likely to buy more newspapers in the next few years, and Berkshire Hathaway will not try to influence the editorial policies of any of them.
Date: 05/25/2012 | Business
RealNetworks to pay $2.4 million to settle with state
OLYMPIA -- Digital media provider RealNetworks will pay a $2.4 million settlement because of free trial subscriptions that resulted in unwanted monthly charges to customers, Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna announced.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Business
Inbox: digital groceries, pay for news, tag your bag
Miscellany from our inbox ...Electronic coupons at Safeway
Date: 05/24/2012 | Bizblog
N.Y. black radio-pioneer Hal Jackson dies
NEW YORK -- Radio pioneer Harold "Hal" Jackson, a staple of New York radio, has died. He was in his late 90s.Jackson died Wednesday in a hospital, said Deon Levingston, vice president and general manager at WBLS, a station owned by Inner City Broadcasting, which Jackson co-founded.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
NBC to boost online Olympics coverage
BOSTON -- Recognizing that many viewers want to watch key events live, in prime time, rather than tape-delayed, NBCUniversal plans to bolster its coverage of the Summer Olympics in London in August by putting 3,000 hours of programming online.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Business
Man breaks into Kan. TV station, stabs 2 workers
TOPEKA, Kan. -- A man wielding a knife broke into a Kansas television station Wednesday morning and stabbed two sales employees.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
Herald writers, photographers win SPJ awards
SEATTLE -- Winners of the 2011 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest were announced Saturday night at banquets in Seattle and Portland, Ore. The annual contest is held by Region 10 of SPJ to honor journalism in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and...
Date: 05/21/2012 | SCBJ Business News
Herald writers, photographers win SPJ awards
SEATTLE -- Winners of the 2011 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest were announced Saturday night at banquets in Seattle and Portland, Ore. The annual contest is held by Region 10 of SPJ to honor journalism in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and...
Date: 05/20/2012 | Northwest
Buffett's Berkshire to buy Media General papers
NEW YORK -- Billionaire Warren Buffett's company is making another foray into newspapers, agreeing to buy 63 newspapers from Media General Inc. for $142 million.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Business
Facebook's $16 billion IPO one of world's largest
NEW YORK -- Facebook's initial public offering of stock is shaping up to be one of the largest ever. The world's definitive online social network is raising at least $16 billion, a big windfall for a company that began eight years ago with no way to make money.
Date: 05/17/2012 | Business
Girl leads crusade against airbrushed photos
NEW YORK -- The girl crusaders held up signs in the drizzling rain with messages for Seventeen magazine: "Teen Girls Against Photoshop!" and "The Magazine's for Me? Make it Look Like Me!!"
Date: 05/14/2012 | Life
Report: Yahoo director on hot seat to leave board
SAN FRANCISCO — A published report says a Yahoo director who didn't challenge an inaccuracy in CEO Scott Thompson's academic record will step down from the troubled Internet company's board.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Business
Mayors urge online escort service to check ages
SEATTLE -- Mayors of nearly 50 cities across the country are urging Village Voice Media to require identification for people posting escort ads on Backpage.com — its online ad service that has come under scrutiny from authorities for allegations that it’s used to promote child...
Date: 05/07/2012 | Northwest
Newspapers report slight increase in circulation
NEW YORK -- U.S. newspapers reported a slight increase in circulation the past year as more readers purchased digital subscriptions, according to a media industry group.
Date: 05/02/2012 | Business
Owner of 4 Washington newspapers posts 1Q loss
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The McClatchy Co. (MNI) this week said it lost $2.1 million in the first quarter as newspaper advertising revenue continued to decline.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Bizblog
New York Times posts higher 1Q net income on gains
NEW YORK -- The New York Times Co. reported sharply higher net income for its first quarter on Thursday, helped by a large gain from the sale of its Regional Media Group and increases in print and digital circulation revenue.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Business
The Seattle Times, The Stranger reporters earn Pulitzers
SEATTLE — An investigation into the accidental overdose deaths of people on state-subsidized health care who were given a cheap but dangerous pain control drug and an account of a harrowing rape and murder trial won Pulitzer Prizes for The Seattle Times and the Seattle weekly newspaper The...
Date: 04/16/2012 | Northwest
Newspaper's Amazon.com series delivers strong reaction
A group called Envision Seattle, which urges residents there to "end corporate personhood," is piling on Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos following the...
Date: 04/10/2012 | Bizblog
Nation rapidly switching to e-reading, study finds
Here's what's happening on the plugged-in side of the digital divide: an extraordinarily swift change in how people are reading books and other media, driven by the rapid acceptance of tablets and e-readers.
Date: 04/08/2012 | Business
DirecTV deal restores channels for state viewers
NEW YORK -- DirecTV subscribers in 19 U.S. markets, including in Washington state, have regained access to a host of channels that had been blacked out since Sunday because of a contract impasse with Tribune Broadcasting.
Date: 04/05/2012 | Business
A look behind Amazon.com's smile
The Seattle Times has now completed publication of a four-part series on the mammoth local company we all probably know least about -- at least in terms of what's on the inside. "Behind the Smile" is a wide-ranging series that explores Amazon.com's
Date: 04/04/2012 | Bizblog
Newspapers erect pay walls in hunt for new revenue
LOS ANGELES -- Newspapers are returning to a business strategy that served them well in the heyday of street-corner newsboys shouting the front-page news. They're enticing people with a little free online content before asking them to pay up.
Date: 04/03/2012 | Business
Current TV sacks Keith Olbermann; legal battle looms
NEW YORK — Keith Olbermann was gone, a new host had replaced him, and history seemed to have repeated itself with his dismissal from Current TV after less than a year.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Nation & World
Say Hello! to Pakistan's glamorous side
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan is better known for bombs than bombshells, militant compounds than opulent estates. A few enterprising Pakistanis hope to alter that perception with the launch of a local version of the well-known celebrity magazine Hello!.
Date: 03/24/2012 | Nation & World
Hollywood trade magazine Variety up for sale
LOS ANGELES -- Variety, a trade magazine that has covered Hollywood for more than 100 years, is up for sale.Its owner, a unit of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, announced the decision Friday in a story on Variety's website.
Date: 03/24/2012 | Business
Lawsuits bring scrutiny to Trinity Broadcasting
COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch have faced plenty of mountains building their religious broadcast empire -- among them allegations of a homosexual tryst and a prolonged battle with the Federal Communications Commission -- but the most recent attack on the founders of...
Date: 03/22/2012 | Nation & World
N.Y. Times cuts number of free online articles
NEW YORK -- A year after it began charging for full access to its website, The New York Times is cutting the number of articles available for free from 20 per month to 10.The Times says the change takes effect in April.
Date: 03/21/2012 | Business
Welcome to The Herald's new blog about business
Welcome to Bizblog, our new stream of general business and technology news. Bizblog replaces The Storefront, which was conceived and cultivated by recently retired business editor
Date: 03/21/2012 | Bizblog
Tablets boosting news consumption, industry report says
Mobile technology appears to be increasing the public appetite for news but it's far from clear whether the news industry will profit from that, a study issued Monday concluded.
Date: 03/20/2012 | Business
Groupon launches appointment scheduling tool
Groupon is launching an online scheduling tool so small businesses can let customers book appointments more easily.
Date: 03/19/2012 | Business
Prosecute Rush Limbaugh for defamation, Gloria Allred urges
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A high-profile attorney is calling for Rush Limbaugh to be prosecuted on a defamation charge, saying an obscure Florida law can be used to punish him for calling a college student a "slut" and a "prostitute" on the air.
Date: 03/09/2012 | Nation & World
Seattle landmark P-I globe to be preserved
SEATTLE -- A Seattle landmark, the P-I globe, should keep on spinning, but it will likely be moved by the end of the year from the waterfront building that once housed the Post-Intelligencer newspaper.
Date: 03/08/2012 | Northwest
Deal expected to preserve Seattle P-I globe
SEATTLE -- An agreement among Hearst Corp., the city of Seattle and the Museum of History and Industry is expected to preserve the iconic Seattle P-I globe.
Date: 03/05/2012 | Northwest
The Super Bowl ads that score are the ones that are still talked about a year later
NEW YORK -- Companies hope you'll be gabbing about their Super Bowl ads on Monday morning. But the ultimate score is if those conversations continue throughout the year.
Date: 02/04/2012 | Business
Fitch affirms Boeing Co.'s debt ratings
Fitch Ratings on Monday affirmed the debt ratings of the Boeing Co. and its financing arm, Boeing Capital.
Date: 01/24/2012 | Business
Comcast, Verizon launch joint marketing effort
EVERETT -- Comcast and Verizon Wireless have joined forces in marketing their products, first in metro Seattle and Portland, the two companies said Tuesday.That includes spots in south Snohomish County.
Date: 01/18/2012 | Business
Berkshire Hathaway completes deal to buy Omaha World-Herald
OMAHA, Nebraska — Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has completed the purchase of Berkshire chairman Warren Buffett's hometown newspaper, the Omaha World-Herald.
Date: 12/26/2011 | Business
Mommy bloggers help to boost sales of toys
Emily Vanek is not buying up a bunch of LeapPad Explorers herself, but she may be at least partly to blame for some stores selling out of the $99 children's tablet this holiday season.
Date: 12/21/2011 | Business
U.K. crime reporter arrested in hacking inquiry
LONDON -- The former crime editor for the News of the World tabloid was arrested Thursday in Britain's phone hacking scandal, and authorities announced that CNN journalist Piers Morgan would appear before the U.K.'s media ethics inquiry.
Date: 12/16/2011 | Nation & World
Soaring costs hit cable television networks
LOS ANGELES -- Cable television networks may be the most lucrative divisions of many large media companies, but the networks are beginning to feel the pinch of dramatically higher programming costs.
Date: 12/10/2011 | Business
Noted New York Times journalist Tom Wicker dies
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Tom Wicker, the former New York Times political reporter and columnist whose career soared following his acclaimed coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died Friday at his home in Rochester, Vt. He was 85.
Date: 11/25/2011 | Nation & World
'Family Circus' creator Bil Keane dies at 89
PHOENIX — Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics entertained readers with a simple but sublime mix of humor and traditional family values for more than a half century. The appeal endured, the author thought, because the American public needed the consistency.
Date: 11/09/2011 | Nation & World
BBC: Tabloid spied on Prince William
LONDON -- A private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World conducted surveillance on Prince William as well of dozens of politicians and celebrities, the BBC reported Tuesday.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Nationwide emergency alert test set
EVERETT -- A nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System is planned for 11 a.m. Nov. 9.The test is organized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Weather Service.
Date: 11/02/2011 | Local News
Boeing CFO Bell to retire April 1 after long career
The Boeing Co.'s chief financial officer, James Bell, will retire April 1, the company said Tuesday. "James Bell's service to Boeing has been extraordinary in many ways over many years," Jim McNerney, Boeing's chief executive, said in a statement. "As CFO he created a world-class finance...
Date: 11/02/2011 | Business
Dream Dinners founders urging focus on ‘The Hour That Matters Most'
SNOHOMISH -- Entrepreneurs Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna have parlayed the success of their Dream Dinners business into a spot on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
Date: 10/31/2011 | Business
Fox hires Former Gov. Mark Sanford as commentator
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is joining Fox News as a political commentator through the 2012 presidential elections, a Fox Channel spokeswoman confirmed Saturday.
Date: 10/23/2011 | Nation & World
Murdoch stays in control of News Corp. annual meeting
LOS ANGELES -- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch left little doubt who is running the show at News Corp.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Business
Head of French spy agency handed initial charges
PARIS -- The head of France's DCRI counterespionage agency was handed preliminary charges Monday in a probe into allegations of spying on journalists at the daily "Le Monde," his attorney said.
Date: 10/17/2011 | Nation & World
Social media wizards now in demand in the workplace
LOS ANGELES -- Like many people, Evan Cunningham spends time on Facebook and Twitter while at the office. He sends out party invitations or chats about beer.But unlike most people, he gets paid for it. And he gets a title.
Date: 10/06/2011 | Business
Newspaper heir Ellery McClatchy dies at 86
POPE VALLEY, Calif. -- William Ellery McClatchy, who for years sat on the board of his family's newspaper business and was a Hall of Fame croquet player, died on Tuesday. He was 86.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Nation & World
UK police suspend demand for paper's hacking files
LONDON -- London's police force said Tuesday it was dropping a demand that The Guardian newspaper reveal the confidential sources for its stories about Britain's phone-hacking scandal. The decision follows a unified chorus of criticism from the country's hyper-competitive media outlets.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Nation & World
Large Mexican newspapers drop most sex ads
MEXICO CITY -- Two of Mexico's largest newspaper groups say they have stopped running most of the sex ads that once blanketed the back pages of popular tabloids.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Nation & World
James Murdoch knew of reporters' phone hacking, colleagues say
LONDON -- Media executive James Murdoch knew of damaging evidence three years ago that phone hacking was practiced by more than one reporter at the News of the World tabloid, despite his statements to the contrary, two of his former colleagues said Tuesday.
Date: 09/06/2011 | Nation & World
Teachers protest new social media law
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri teachers' union said Friday that it is challenging a new measure that restricts teachers' use of social networking sites and their contact with students, saying it violates their constitutional rights.
Date: 08/20/2011 | Nation & World
Times to deliver Herald
The Seattle Times will deliver The Herald to most of the Everett-based newspaper's subscribers starting Oct. 1.
Date: 08/10/2011 | Business
Rupert Murdoch rejects blame for hacking scandal
LONDON -- Summoned by British lawmakers Tuesday to account for a phone hacking and bribery scandal, Rupert Murdoch said he was humbled and ashamed but accepted no personal responsibility, insisting he was at fault only for trusting the wrong people at a now-defunct tabloid that made up a tiny...
Date: 07/19/2011 | Nation & World
Another top News Corp. exec falls in hacking scandal
LOS ANGELES — Les Hinton, one of the most senior executives at News Corp. and a longtime lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, is leaving the company in the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal that is tearing through the media conglomerate.
Date: 07/15/2011 | Nation & World
FBI to review Murdoch hacking allegations in U.S.
NEW YORK — The FBI has begun a preliminary inquiry based on concerns in Congress over a report that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims, a law enforcement official said Thursday.
Date: 07/15/2011 | Nation & World
More to come, hacking-scandal reporter says
He broke the story that destroyed a 168-year-old newspaper, humiliated one of the world's most powerful media moguls and cast a spotlight on a phone hacking scandal that has embroiled politicians, police and journalists.And he says there is more to come.
Date: 07/14/2011 | Nation & World
Olympian newspaper disciplines photographer
OLYMPIA -- The Olympian newspaper is disciplining a photographer for showing unpublished photos of protester vandalism to police and misleading editors about the photos, Managing Editor Jerry Wakefield wrote to readers in the Sunday paper.
Date: 07/12/2011 | Northwest
Murdoch comes under fire in hacking
LOS ANGELES -- As investors punished News Corp.'s stock again on Monday, questions arose anew about the leadership of its chief executive, Rupert Murdoch.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Nation & World
Fox, other News Corp. outlets mosly mum on hacking
NEW YORK — The deepening scandal surrounding the London tabloid News of the World is being covered very differently by the outlets of News Corp., owner of the paper, and their chief rivals.
Date: 07/08/2011 | Nation & World
News Corp. takes a big loss on MySpace sale
LOS ANGELES -- Pop star Justin Timberlake is part of a group that said Wednesday it will buy MySpace from News Corp., a bid to add some cool to a social network that has been losing it for some time.
Date: 06/30/2011 | Business
Former Washington Post reporter says he's illegal immigrant
WASHINGTON — A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the Virginia Tech massacre for The Washington Post went public Wednesday with a secret he has been keeping for nearly two decades: He is an illegal immigrant.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Nation & World
Boom for the Internet may not be a bubble
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies -- some of them profitable, some not -- sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year.
Date: 06/18/2011 | Business
Judge: Gregoire can claim 'executive privilege' to withhold public records
OLYMPIA -- Washington's governor can claim "executive privilege" as a reason to withhold records from the public even though it is not listed as a specific exemption under state law, a judge ruled Friday.
Date: 06/17/2011 | Northwest
Vandals target Olympia photographer, newspaper
OLYMPIA -- A photographer's home was tagged and his car's tires were slashed as vandals in Olympia targeted the city's newspaper overnight Wednesday.
Date: 06/10/2011 | Northwest
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