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Political reporting an old boys' club? Not at L.A. Times
A recent survey by the Women’s Media Center found that about 75% of newspapers’ election coverage this year had been written by men. The report on the data was headlined, “Men are telling the stories of Election 2012.” But...
Tags: Kathleen Hennessey, Elections, Social Media, Christi Parsons, White House
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Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle
Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...
Tags: University of Alabama, Syracuse University, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Crime, Law and Justice, Durham (Durham, North Carolina)
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PASSINGS: Richard B. Scudder, Barton Biggs
Richard B. Scudder Co-founder of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...
Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Companies and Corporations, James Gorman, Financial Markets, College Sports
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Marion Cunningham dies at 90; icon of American cooking
Marion Cunningham's crusade to preserve the nightly supper hour came of her concern that without it children would never learn table manners or the give and take of dinner conversation. Not only that, she worried that such traditional American dishes as...Tags: Ruth Reichl, Sears, Human Interest, Lettuce, Dining and Drinking
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Film critic Judith Crist dies at 90; had a sharp wit
Judith Crist, who blazed a trail as the first full-time female film critic at a major U.S. newspaper and went on to become widely known to cinema lovers through her movie reviews in TV Guide magazine and on the "Today" show, died Tuesday at age 90. Crist...
Tags: Radio City Music Hall, Marvin Hamlisch, Music, Henry Fonda, Movies
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L.A. Times will use $1-million grant to expand key beats
The Los Angeles Times will use a $1-million grant from the Ford Foundation to expand its coverage of key beats, including immigration and ethnic communities in Southern California, the southwest U.S. border and the emerging economic powerhouse of Brazil....Tags: Immigration, Journalism, Media Industry, Davan Maharaj, Prisons
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Davy Jones dies at 66; Monkees' romantic heartthrob
Davy Jones was a promising 18-year-old actor from England when he found himself among the guest performers on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 9, 1964 — the same night about 75 million people tuned in to catch the American debut of the Beatles. Like...Tags: Popular Music (genre), Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Celebrities, Heart Attack
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Review: 'The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat' by Thomas McNamee
Tribune newspapersThe Man Who Changed the Way We Eat Thomas McNamee Free Press, 339 pp., $27 Ask your average Food Network viewer or Yelp poster about Craig Claiborne and you're likely to be met with a blank look and a "Who?" How fleeting is fame in the food world....Tags: Julia Child, Meryl Streep, Food Network (tv network), Dining and Drinking, James Beard
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Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth
Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Poetry, Human Interest, College Sports, William Faulkner
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Morning Fix: Britney, Demi on Fox! Rebekah Brooks to be charged.
Company TownBritney Spears and Demi Lovato join "The X Factor." Former News Corp. executive Rebekah Brooks charged in ethics scandal at News of the World and the Sun.... -
Pakistanis fear becoming isolated
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As U.S. frustration with Pakistan's six-month blockade of Afghanistan-bound supplies became painfully apparent Monday at the NATO summit in Chicago, Pakistanis are growing worried that their government's negotiating strategy...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Organizations, NATO, Afghanistan, Terrorism
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Adolfo Calero dies at 80; tied to Iran-Contra scandal
MEXICO CITY — Adolfo Calero, a former Coca-Cola executive who led the largest anti-Sandinista Contra rebel force in 1980s Nicaragua and served as one of its most articulate lobbyists in Washington, has died. He was 80.
Calero died Saturday night in...Tags: Lebanon, Coca-Cola Co., Government, National Government, Respiratory Disease
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