Abundance of News, but Mixed Sales, for News Magazines
Date: 10 August 2011
By Jeremy W. Peters
Jeremy Peters
Time, the country’s best-selling news weekly, posted considerable gains, but Newsweek barely moved.
Replaying Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The August 9, 2011 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 220 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 14 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, August 9, 2025, 300 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, August 9, 2026, in 64 days. You have lived for 5,414 days, or about 129,938 hours, or about 7,796,323 minutes, or about 467,779,380 seconds.
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9th of August 2011 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 9, 2011
News Corp.’s Independent Directors Have Strong Ties to Murdoch
Date: 09 August 2011
By Jeremy W. Peters
Jeremy Peters
The board has its first scheduled in-person meeting today since the phone hacking scandal erupted in England.
Productivity Falls for 2nd Quarter in a Row
Date: 09 August 2011
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The measure of employee output per hour fell at a 0.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter after a revised 0.6 percent drop in the previous three months.
Credit Union Regulator Accuses Goldman
Date: 10 August 2011
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The National Credit Union Administration says Goldman Sachs misrepresented securities in offering documents as safer than they were.
Johnson & Johnson to Settle Charge Over Drug’s Marketing
Date: 09 August 2011
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
An agreement in principle was reached on a misdemeanor criminal charge related to the marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
Good News From Europe
Date: 09 August 2011
By Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Italy back from the brink, maybe.
For Murdoch, a Board Meeting With Friendly Faces
Date: 10 August 2011
By Jeremy W. Peters
Jeremy Peters
The closeness between News Corporation and its independent directors is an example of how chumminess in the boardroom can be a problem.
Times Books to Publish Account of British Hacking Scandal
Date: 09 August 2011
By Julie Bosman
Julie Bosman
The book will look at the genesis of the scandal and how it unfolded.
A new app from the F.B.I.; the NYT’s new beta620 site for experimental software projects; tech news.
Date: 10 August 2011
A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation introduces the agency’s very first smartphone app, Child ID, which is intended for parents to use in case a child goes missing. Several members of the team on beta620, the new site for experimental features at The Times, stop by to chat about the project’s goals and current offerings for Times readers. The weekly serving of technology news includes a look at social media’s role in the London riots and a new survey on mobile app security.
Networks Step Up Coverage in Famine Zones
Date: 09 August 2011
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
Television networks in the United States are stepping up their coverage from Somalia and Kenya amid what the United Nations calls a worsening humanitarian crisis there.