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LONDON, October 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- News International (NI) has launched its classified advertising site for premium vehicles; Sunday Times Driving [http://www.driving.co.uk ] (http://www.driving.co.uk). The website's launch precedes a name change to the newspaper's InGear motoring supplement as from this coming Sunday it will also be known as Driving. Sunday Times Driving is the first car-buying site dedicated to the top end of the market and builds on The Sunday...

Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch began the new year by creating a Twitter account, posting under the handle @rupertmurdoch, spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop at News International confirmed on Monday. The 80-year-old chairman and CEO of News Corporation caused quite a stir on the micro-blogging website, posting a series of tweets about issues ranging from his family holiday in the Caribbean to the number of holidays taken by British workers. Most members of Twitter, a site typically associated with...

MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Marca Pais - Imagen de Mexico: In a recent CNN.com special report by Lonely Planet Travel Editor Robert Reid, the news website highlighted the safety and security of Mexico as a tourist destination. According to Reid, the vast majority of Mexican tourist destinations are located far away from areas threatened by criminal drug syndicates, and reports of crime should not deter Americans from visiting...

DETROIT, Feb. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Crain's Detroit Business on Monday is launching the first print version issue of its popular Crain's Michigan Business online publication that provides selective, in-depth coverage of business news throughout the state. The print version of Crain's Michigan Business will be sent every second Monday of the month to about 5,000 business influencers outside of the traditional five-county region in Southeast Michigan that is covered by Crain's Detroit...

Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation has announced plans to limit online access to his newspapers and create a subscription-based content infrastructure.In an interview with Marvin Kalb of The Kalb Report, Murdoch stated that he was going to limit websites like Google and Microsoft to a "headline or a sentence or two" as he moves to lock down News Corp. publications behind a pay access wall."You'll find, I think, most newspapers in this country are going to be...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bay Area News Project, a new non-profit media organization, and The New York Times announced today that the two organizations are moving forward with a content collaboration. Under the agreement, Bay Area News Project journalists will provide branded news to The New York Times for its San Francisco Bay Area editions on Friday and Sunday. The New York Times's Bay Area section was launched in October 2009 and currently features editorial coverage...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At the News Corporation annual meeting on Friday morning in New York City, Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media will urge Chairman Rupert Murdoch to ask why Fox News has hired a left-wing cop-killer apologist, Marc Lamont Hill, as a well-paid on-air contributor on shows such as The O'Reilly Factor. "The Obama Administration had a Van Jones problem," Kincaid explained, "and News Corporation has a Marc Lamont Hill problem." Van Jones was ousted...

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said U.S. newspapers need to begin charging for online content if they wish to survive.Murdoch, whose media company owns one of the few papers that charges customers to read its news on the Internet, said online advertising revenue, which many publishers hope will offset ad revenue declines from their print operations, will not cover costs.In 2007, Murdoch acquired The Wall Street Journal, which had been charging for online access years before, and its...

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to provide even more timely news on corporate finance, Financial Week will become an online publication. As the indispensable source for intelligence on the issues affecting corporate money, Financial Week is edited for the "C-Suite" and other decision-level financial executives in the top U.S. companies. The weekly print newspaper ceased production with its December 7 issue. "Year over year, our Internet traffic has grown...

Text of report by Khalid Mustafa headlined "Power crisis worsens as deficit swells to 4,000 MW" published by Pakistani newspaper The News website on 12 October Islamabad: The prevailing power crisis in the country worsened on Saturday [11 October] as power deficit swelled to 4,000 MW because of further reduction in water outflows from the Tarbela Dam, closure of seven thermal power units and zero supply of gas to power houses. The Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) has increased load-...