Morning Agenda: Hard Hats for Hedge Funds as Mergers Collapse
Date: 12 May 2016
By AMIE TSANG
Amie TSANG
Fund-Raisers Pitch for Trump at Hedge Fund Conference | Online Art Auctioneers to Merge
Replaying Thursday, May 12, 2016
The May 12, 2016 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 132 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 10 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 22 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, May 12, 2027, in 342 days. You have lived for 3,674 days, or about 88,199 hours, or about 5,291,954 minutes, or about 317,517,240 seconds.
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12th of May 2016 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 12, 2016
Morning Agenda: Swift Reports a New Attack
Date: 13 May 2016
By AMIE TSANG
Amie TSANG
Apple Invests in Uber’s Rival in China | Minnesota Law School Cuts Admissions | Trump’s Chief Fund-Raiser Heads Straight to Las Vegas
What We’re Reading
Date: 13 May 2016
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Jodi Kantor, KJ Dell’Antonia and others.
Morley Safer Retiring as Longest-Serving ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter
Date: 12 May 2016
By CHRISTOPHER MELE
Christopher MELE
CBS says Morley Safer, longest-serving reporter on 60 Minutes, is retiring after career spanning over 50 years; Safer was notable for delivering both hard-hitting and quirky stories.
Britain Plans to Tighten Oversight of the BBC in New Charter
Date: 13 May 2016
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Steven ERLANGER
Great Britain unveils its plans for future of publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation; new charter calls for tightening oversight, while urging broadcaster to be more 'distinctive' in its programming.
Journalists Wait for Donald Trump, but Meet Only His Papier-Mâché Model
Date: 13 May 2016
By ASHLEY PARKER
Ashley PARKER
Donald Trump's meetings with Republican leaders in Washington, DC, draw crowds of both protesters and reporters, even though candidate is only seen very briefly.
Facebook, Facing Bias Claims, Shows How Editors and Algorithms Guide News
Date: 13 May 2016
By MIKE ISAAC
Mike ISAAC
Facebook publishes its internal editorial guidelines as part of social media network's latest effort to confront accusations it is politically biased against conservative publications; guidelines show how both editors and algorithms play roles in news selection.
Facebook’s Bias Is Built-In, and Bears Watching
Date: 12 May 2016
By FARHAD MANJOO
Farhad MANJOO
Farhad Manjoo State of the Art column underscores degree to which Facebook is one of most powerful media organizations in world, and how it has managed to operate free from criticism because of widely held misconception that its news offerings are generated by kind of objective algorithm; points to reports raising questions about how Facebook constructs its trending news list as useful reminders of possible problems that could arise from its position of power in news industry.