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News.nl

News.nl was a free Dutch tabloid-sized newspaper which was launched at the end of 2000 by De Telegraaf.


2013 Luxor hot air balloon crash

After news of the tragedy broke, Governor of Luxor Ezzat Saad banned hot air balloon flights in his jurisdiction until further notice.

Aaj Tak

During 2002 Gujarat violence, Aaj Tak decided not to show the news about Hindus planting small statues of Hanuman known as Hulladia Hanumans in Muslim places of worship.

Ansett New Zealand

Ansett Australia would be owned by Air New Zealand and (until it was bought out) Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, while Ansett New Zealand would be owned by News Corporation exclusively.

Arnold Amet

The exchange, which had been filmed, was posted on YouTube, and made front page news in the Post-Courier, the country's largest-selling daily newspaper.

Assault on the Senses

Katie's character, though not shown through her name, is an ambitious, sexy news reporter similar to Lois Lane.

Casville, North Carolina

The extravaganza has attracted local and national attention; a news special was even featured on the Fox News Channel in 2005.

CFBN

The station, owned by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, aired a business news format syndicated from Canada's Business Network, as well as some travel and weather information reports for Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Dana Wolfe

Wolfe holds five Emmy Awards earned over a decade as a producer for Ted Koppel’s Nightline on ABC News.

David Twohill

Twohill, with his wife Sue, was in the national news on Christmas Day 2001 when their house was lost in bushfires—a benefit gig, Bird's Big Burnout, occurred at Revesby in early 2002 and a four piece Midnight Oil minus Peter Garrett performed.

David Wildstein

Several journalists credit Wildstein with having helped launch their careers while they worked at PolitickerNJ.com, including Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt; James Pindell, the political director at WMUR in New Hampshire; and Steve Kornacki, who hosts a cable television political news commentary program on MSNBC.

Gibraltar Hindu Temple

In 2012, the Mayor of Gibraltar, Anthony Lima, made the news when he announced that he was inviting the Hindu community into Gibraltar City Hall to celebrate the Hindu festival of Deepavali.

Gotcha journalism

In 1964, the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case (New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254) ended most libel protection recourse for public figures in the United States effectively clearing the way for intrusive or adversarial reportage into the public or private affairs of public figures by news media outlets whether newspapers, TV or radio.

Hanns Martin Schleyer

After Schleyer's kidnappers received the news of the death of their imprisoned comrades, Schleyer was taken from Brussels on October 18, 1977, and shot dead en route to Mulhouse, France, where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy.

In the News

Three new one-minute segments were produced each week, narrated by CBS Radio News Washington Correspondent Dan Raviv.

Iza, Now!

"Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono" is the theme song of the drama Stand Up!! starring Arashi member Kazunari Ninomiya, Anne Suzuki, NEWS member Tomohisa Yamashita, Shun Oguri and Hiroki Narimiya, while "Pikanchi Double" is the theme song of the movie Pikanchi: Life is Hard Dakara Happy, the sequel to Pikanchi: Life is Hard Dakedo Happy.

Jesse Colombo

In October 2013, Jesse issued a warning about Malaysia's economic bubble on his Forbes column, which made news headlines and prompted a response from the country's leaders, including Zeti Akhtar Aziz (the governor of Malaysia’s central bank), Mustapa Mohamed (International Trade and Industry Minister), and Lim Guan Eng (Chief Minister of the State of Penang).

John Henry Faulk

Other supporters in the blacklist struggle included radio pioneer and Wimberley, Texas native Parks Johnson and reporter and CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite.

Johnny One Note

Ted Heath - Big Band Percussion - (1968) an instrumental version, the first eight bars of which were used for many years as the opening theme to BBC One's children's news programme John Craven's Newsround.

Jonathan Arking

However, a chance encounter with Dick Kernan from the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts led him to take the News Director position at WTWR-FM in Monroe, Michigan.

Jorge and Lorena Gamboa

In 1996 they joined Good News in Bad News Places Ministries and in 1998 they began their own full-time ministry as overseas evangelists preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, imparting family seminars and have been in more than 50 countries around the world since they started.

Justin Catanoso

In 1992 his investigative reporting for the News & Record into fraud in the tobacco industry earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination, a Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers, and Medical Writer of the Year in North Carolina.

Kim Iverson

Kim moved from Sacramento to New York City in 2006 and freelanced as a news reporter for News 12 Networks and as a VJ for Concert TV.

KKOH

Tom Darby, news anchor, Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame

Kodagu Gowda

AreBashe News in Madikeri AIR: the news in Arebhashe is broadcast on Madikeri AIR daily at 7:45 pm, featuring the Local news of Kodagu and various Gowda activities held in Sullia and Mysore.

LENNONYC

Interviewed in film are Yoko Ono, members of the Elephant's Memory band that played with Lennon and Ono in New York, Elton John, Dick Cavett, photographer Bob Gruen and Geraldo Rivera, who talks about a news report of his that inspired Lennon and Ono to stage the One to One benefit concert in 1972.

Leonie Wood

She worked as a business reporter for The Age for over ten years before being moved to general news by editor Andrew Jaspan, where she focused on court reporting and features for the Saturday edition.

Louis Lipsky

Lipsky began his career as a reporter in Rochester, NY eventually moving to New York City where he joined the staff of the New York Morning Telegraph as a reporter covering theater news and serving as a drama critic.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

"It is composed of 12 prize winning acts which have never before appeared in Buffalo, with Ted Mack, former conductor of Shea's Buffalo Orchestra, returning in the role of master of ceremonies. On the screen will be Mickey Rooney, the delightful star of the Judge Hardy family series, in his newest role, "Hold That Kiss" with Maureen O'Sullivan and Dennis O'Keefe. Shea's Buffalo News will conclude the bill."

Media Bloggers Association

In June 2008, MBA became involved in a copyright dispute involving Associated Press demand of strict terms for bloggers quoting from their news at the request of Rogers Cadenhead whose Drudge Retort was affected.

Media Wales

The different sections include information on local community news, yourCardiff, lifestyle, Parklife (local sport), Cardiff Blues, Cardiff City F.C. and Cardiff Devils.

Napoleon B. Broward

The race, expected to be an exciting showdown, proved to be such a bore that election news was pushed off the front page by coverage of Halley's Comet.

Negin Farsad

Featuring interviews with a diverse cast of everyday citizens, religious leaders and celebrities, such as The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, comedians David Cross, Janeane Garafalo, Colin Quinn, and national news personalities' Rachel Maddow, Soledad O'Brian and Al Velshi among others.

Philippe Sands

Jane Mayer reported in The New Yorker on Sands' reaction to news that Spanish investigating judge Baltazar Garzon had received motions requesting that six former Bush officials (Alberto Gonzales

Rabble.ca

First started as a news magazine in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Centre for Social Justice, rabble has expanded beyond the realm of the written word and now includes podcasts as well as branching out to video in 2008 with the creation of rabbletv.

Raffaele Baldassarre

On 24 June 2013, the Dutch news blog GeenStijl posted a video in which Baldassarre was seen checking in at the European Parliament to claim a 304 euro daily expenses fee, leaving immediately afterwards.

Repubblica Radio TV

Born on April 10, 2006, during the Italian general election, broadcast news and weather bulletins and political programs from 10.00 AM to 12.00 AM and repeats from 9.00 PM to 12.00 PM, Monday to Friday.

Robyn McGlohn

Robyn McGlohn is the current morning/noon news anchor for WSOC-TV Eyewitness News Daybreak and WAXN-TV Eyewitness News This Morning in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ron Insana

Until December 5, 2003, he and Sue Herera co-anchored CNBC's then flagship nightly financial news program, Business Center.

ShakthiDass

He later did innumerable wrappers, storyboard illustration, and sketches for various magazines and novels in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, English and Oriya including Bommarillu, Chandamama, Balamitra, Nandanam, Bujjayi, Balabharati, Kumkuma, Dinakaran, Vasuki, Rishi Petam, Rotary News,Vijaya Publications, Oriya News, Chinnari, Kannada Chokkalingam.

Show of Strength Theatre Company

In three years they produced eleven play including two news works by Peter Nichols and the acclaimed The Wills' Girls by Amanda Whittington which was revived in 2003 and was also staged at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

SnapStream TV monitoring software

In news, politics and entertainment, SnapStream's TV search technology has contributed to the sound-bite culture.

Suzanne Virdee

She returned to Central News West as a reporter, presenter & producer before joining the BBC's Midlands Today programme in April 2001, presenting late night bulletins before becoming a main presenter a year later, alongside Nick Owen.

Télam

The state's news media outlets were merged in 2001, and the agency joined public television (Canal 7) and public radio (LRA Radio Nacional) within the Servicio Nacional de Medios Públicos (National Service of Public Media).

The New Ledger

The New Ledger is an American web publication which pairs aggregated and ranked news stories with right of center opinion articles by free-market minded moderates, libertarians and conservatives.

Toivo Ndjebela

He graduated in 2006 from the University of Namibia, During his student years he was a chief reporter for Campus Vision, and news editor and producer of UNAM Radio.

Travels with Scout

Dylan (Reid Ewing) has bad news that the drummer of his band is moving to Portland because his parents are getting back together.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

During the Cassette Scandal audiotapes where released on which Kuchma, Lytvyn and other top-level administration officials are allegedly heard discussing the need to silence Georgiy Gongadze for his online news reports about high-level corruption.

WDAZ-TV

Owned by Forum Communications of Fargo, which also owns the Grand Forks Herald, WDAZ has facilities on South Washington Street in Grand Forks near Kmart and a news bureau and sales office on U.S. Highway 2 in Devils Lake.

William McKay

The news of the declaration of war he carried, along with orders from Major General Isaac Brock, the Commander in Upper Canada, allowed the British detachment to take the American detachment at Fort Mackinac by surprise.

WJJL

Former WGN Radio-Chicago VP/General Manager Tom Langmyer worked there as a summer fill-in personality, news reporter and anchor while in college.


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