August 2011
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Obama Announces Congress Has Reached Debt Ceiling... →
abcnewsradio:
President Barack Obama on Sunday night announced that Congress had arrived at an 11th-hour bipartisan deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and prevent an unprecedented United States default on its financial obligations.
The deal, which Mr. Obama said was not the one he’d sought but which nonetheless required both Republicans and Democrats to make painful compromises,...
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Obama, Congress Reach a Debt Deal - ABC News →
July 2011
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Yesterday's News?: Six interviews in one day →
Hey, Jim.
yesterdaysnewsnyc:
Our interview schedule has sped up exponentially in the past few days.
Today alone we spoke to: Gabe Zichermann, author of Game-Based Marketing Anthony De Rosa, Thomson Reuters social media editor Alexis Madrigal, Sarah Rich and Mat Honan (co-founders of Longshot Magazine) Choire Sicha, co-editor of The Awl
Almost everyone we’ve met has eagerly and...
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Journalists on Google+ →
muckrack:
Over two years ago Muck Rack launched the definitive list of journalists on Twitter. Now we’ve assembled a list of journalists on Google+ by going through the 500 most followed journalists we’ve verified on Muck Rack. It so happened 140 (an omen?) of those 500 were on Google+. If you need link bait you could even extrapolate that to mean 28% of journalists on Twitter have joined...
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Track that bias: New app visualizes cable news... →
My buddy @ErikS built NewsTracker. Here’s the GigaOm story:
Ever wanted to know how biased Fox News and CNN really are? A new OS X app called News Mapper helps you to find out by making the program of both cable news networks real-time searchable. Users can, for example, search for uses of politically charged vocabulary like Obamacare or mentions of embattled media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and...
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon On... →
From the UN Media Center
22 July 2011 –
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced his shock after a large bomb blast struck the centre of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, earlier today, killing at least seven people and injuring many more.
Media reports indicate that the explosion occurred mid-afternoon local time near a series of key Government buildings in downtown Oslo. A fatal shooting...
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Breaking: Explosion Damages Government HQ in Oslo →
abcnewsradio:
A loud explosion has shattered windows at the government headquarters in Oslo which includes the prime ministers office, injuring several people. Norwegian news agency NTB says the prime minister is safe. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below. OSLO, Norway (AP) — A loud explosion has shattered windows at the...
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NASA Layoffs Planned as Space Shuttle Program Ends →
/sigh Where space-geek dreams go to die…
abcnewsradio:
(HOUSTON) — Now that space shuttle Atlantis has returned home safely, America’s human spaceflight program faces a period of retrenchment and doubt. Atlantis’ landing early Thursday morning marked the end of NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program and the beginning of layoffs for the space agency. On Friday, 1,500 shuttle workers are...
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Chinese Couple Sells All Three Kids to Play Online... →
Gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘grinding.’
abcnewsradio:
(DONGGUAN, China) — A young Chinese couple has sold all three of their children in exchange for money to play online games at Internet cafes, reports a southern Chinese newspaper. According to Sanxiang City News, the couple met in an Internet cafe back in 2007 and bonded over their obsession with online video games. A...
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The Longest Week: As I continue to use (or,... →
Google Plus frames Tumblr in a wonderful light.
Facebook is the sanitary home for mainstream social media, Twitter is the hard-to-use but ‘deep’ network, and (currently) Plus is the network for tech, media, and early-adopters (this, of course, will change to compete with the mainstream nature of Facebook). Tumblr remains my (OUR) quirky, weird, fun, young, cultural, and energetic Home...
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Ethical Actions At Work
For years I’ve owned http://abcn.ws (our official URL shortener)http://abcnewsradioonline.com (our official Radio URL) and other @ABC-related domains. Yesterday I gave (yes, gave) them to my boss. I didn’t have to, so why? Because I’m an ethical person. Don’t forget it.
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White House Has No Plans to Dump Joe Biden in 2012 →
abcnewsradio:
William Powers, a former New York Republican Party chairman, told the Post, “I don’t think there’s any doubt Obama is going to pick him as his running mate. The president is in trouble and Biden doesn’t bring anything to his ticket.” But as much as Cuomo has expressed an interest in running for national office, possibly in 2016, there’s little chance that he would leave his job two...
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Follow ABC News Radio on Google Plus! →
abcnewsradio:
Human-curated, hand-crafted, hard-news goodness from ABC News Radio on Google Plus.
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Critical Analysis of "Page One: Inside the New... →
Watching the film was a fun and interesting challenge for me: on one hand, I read film like a text, as I sometimes like to wear a film critic’s hat; on the other, I personally know some of the ‘stars’ of the film and seeing David Carr and Brian Stelter on screen was great, but also a bit surreal.
I would imagine that any New York media person (whether journalist or PR person who has worked with...
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Writer Stages Her Own Rape to Cure PTSD →
abcnewsradio:
(NEW YORK) — Mac McClelland, a civil rights reporter who has seen the impact of sexual violence around the globe, couldn’t shake the image of Sybille, a woman who said she had been raped at gunpoint and mutilated in the aftermath of Haiti’s catastrophic 2010 earthquake. While on assignment for Mother Jones last September, McClelland said she accompanied Sybille to the hospital when...
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WikiLeaks Spoofs Mastercard Commercials - Business... →
abcnewsradio:
(WASHINGTON) — WikiLeaks’ latest fundraising video takes a jab at Mastercard, one of the major credit card companies that is blocking over $15 million in donations to the anti-secrecy group. It also suggests the group’s work in exposing thousands of secret American diplomatic cables and military documents was the catalyst for the Arab Spring uprisings throughout the Middle East and...
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Iranian Spy Chief: We Can Beat America's 'Internet... →
abcnewsradio:
“We had predicted these [U.S. devised] actions, for example the Internet in suitcase, and devised proper ways to combat them,” Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said Wednesday, according to Iran’s Fars News Agency. Funded in part by the U.S. State Department, the “Internet in a suitcase” is part of a classified multi-platform telecommunications program led by the United...
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Released Without Bail →
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Planned Parenthood Fights Defunding Laws →
abcnewsradio:
“There is a huge tidal wave of support sweeping across the country right now to defund Planned Parenthood,” said Ciara Matthews, a spokesperson for the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life activist group. “What the states are doing is what the federal government has failed to do, and that is to strip tax dollars from America’s abortion giant.”
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ABC News Radio on Google Plus →
I just added a Plus account for +ABC News Radio. I’ll use this account to post headlines, live audio, and podcasts. I’ll do my best to post useful information without spamming your feed. And, as always, I’d love your suggestions, comments, and feedback.
Thanks!
- DHP