Associated Press. The Associated Press (AP) is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists. The AP staff is represented by the Newspaper Guild union, which operates under the Communication Workers union, which operates under the AFL-CIO. As of 2005[update], the news collected by the AP is published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television and radio broadcasters. The photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The Associated Press operates 243 news bureaus and it serves at least 120 countries, with an international staff located worldwide. Associated Press also operates The Associated Press Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations.
History[edit] The Associated Press | The essential global news network. Oxford/Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism?/?Home. Educational Testing Service. ETS' welcome sign, as seen from Rosedale Road in Lawrence Township Messick Hall at ETS headquarters Lord Hall at ETS headquarters Pond behind Messick and Lord Halls.
Educational Testing Service (ETS), founded in 1947, is the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization.[1] It is headquartered in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, near Princeton. ETS develops various standardized tests primarily in the United States for K–12 and higher education, and it also administers international tests including the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General and Subject Tests, and The Praxis test Series — in more than 180 countries, and at over 9,000 locations worldwide. History[edit] Scientific contributions[edit] Current status[edit] In 2009, ETS released the My Credentials Vault Service with Interfolio, Inc to "simplify the entire letter of recommendation process".[36] The Thomson Corporation. Information company The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies.
It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL) and Thomson Newspapers.[1] In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters. The Thomson Corporation was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science and technology research and tax and accounting sectors. The company operated through five segments (2007 onwards): Thomson Financial, Thomson Healthcare, Thomson Legal, Thomson Scientific and Thomson Tax & Accounting. Until 2007, Thomson was also a major worldwide provider of higher education textbooks, academic information solutions and reference materials. Subsequently, on 15 October 2007, Educational Testing Service (ETS) finalized acquisition of Thomson's Prometric. On 15 May 2007, the Thomson Corporation reached an agreement with Reuters to combine the two companies, a deal valued at $17.2 billion.
History[edit] Reuters. History[edit] The Reuter agency was established in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter in Britain at the London Royal Exchange. Paul Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter. He later developed a prototype news service in 1849 in which he used electric telegraphy and carrier pigeons. The Reuter's Telegram Company was later launched. The company initially covered commercial news, serving banks, brokerage houses, and business firms.[2] The first newspaper client to subscribe was the London Morning Advertiser in 1858.[3] Newspaper subscriptions subsequently expanded. The last surviving member of the Reuters family founders, Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, died at age 96 on 25 January 2009, after having suffered a series of strokes.[4] Journalists[edit] Reuters employs several thousand journalists.
Fatalities[edit] Criticism and controversy[edit] The New York Times Company. Coordinates: The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., has served as Chairman of the Board since 1997.[3][4] It is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York, New York.[5] Overview[edit] History[edit] Company holdings[edit] Alongside its namesake newspaper, the company also owns the International New York Times and their related digital properties including NYTimes.com.[7] Company stock profile[edit] Board of Directors[edit] At the April 2005 board meeting, Class B shareholders elected nine of the fourteen directors of the company.[8] Chronology[edit] January 1, 2003 – The company completed its purchase of The Washington Post's 50 percent interest in the International Herald Tribune (IHT) for US$65 million.
March 18, 2005 – The company acquired About.com, an online provider of consumer information for US$410 million. Community awards[edit] See also[edit] List of companies based in New York City. The New York Times. The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851. It has won 112 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization.[3][4] Its website is one of America's most popular news sites, and the most popular among all the nation's newspapers, receiving more than 30 million unique visitors per month as reported in January 2011.[5] The paper's print version remains the largest local metropolitan newspaper in the United States and third-largest newspaper overall, behind The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Following industry trends, its weekday circulation has fallen to fewer than one million daily since 1990.[6] Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times is long regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record".[7] It is owned by The New York Times Company.
The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. History[edit] The Boston Globe. The Boston Globe has been awarded 22 Pulitzer Prizes since 1966, and its chief print rival is the Boston Herald.[3] History[edit] The old Globe headquarters on Washington Street (part of the Boston Advertiser's building can be seen just to the right). The Boston Globe was a private company until 1973 when it went public under the name Affiliated Publications. It continued to be managed by the descendants of Charles H. Taylor. In 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$1.1 billion, making The Boston Globe a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times' parent.[4][5] The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial New York Times Company stock, but the last Taylor family members left management in 2000–2001. In 2004, the Globe apologized for printing graphic photographs that the article represented as showing U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women during the Iraq war.
The Boston Globe has consistently been ranked in the forefront of American journalism. International Herald Tribune. International English-language newspaper The International Herald Tribune (IHT) was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France for international English-speaking readers. It was the first “global” newspaper. It published under the name International Herald Tribune from 1967 to 2013.[1] Early years[edit] In 1887, James Gordon Bennett Jr. created a Paris edition of his newspaper the New York Herald.[2] He called it the Paris Herald. When Bennett Jr. died, the paper came under the control of Frank Munsey, who bought it along with its parent.[3] In 1924, Munsey sold the paper to the family of Ogden Reid, owners of the New York Tribune, creating the New York Herald Tribune. The International Herald Tribune years[edit] Sold in over 160 countries, the International Herald Tribune was an innovative newspaper.
In 1974, the paper pioneered the electronic transmission of facsimile pages across borders, when it opened a remote printing facility in London. The final years[edit] List of assets owned by The New York Times Company. This is a list of assets owned by The New York Times Company.[1] Business Units[edit] New York Times Media Group[edit] New York Times' marquee newspapers. Other[edit] The New York Times Syndicate and News Service Joint Ventures[edit] Donohue Malbaie, Inc. (49%) with Abitibi-ConsolidatedMadison Paper Industries (40%) in Madison, Maine Investments[edit] Investment portfolio as of November 12, 2013.[2] appssavvyAutomatticBetaworksDynamic YieldEnigmaFederated Media Publishing (FMP)Keep HoldingsTrue Ventures Former assets[edit] Regional Media Group[edit] Thirteen dailies and one weekly newspaper primarily in the Southern United States, including titles in Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Broadcast Media Group[edit] New England Media Group[edit] Two of the three largest-circulation newspapers in Massachusetts, purchased in 1993 (Boston) and 1999 (Worcester). Metro Boston LLC - 49% Other[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] AOL. AOL Inc. (previously known as America Online, written as AOL and styled as "Aol. " but commonly pronounced as an initialism) is an American multinational mass media corporation based in New York City that develops, grows, and invests in brands and web sites.[4] The company's business spans digital distribution of content, products, and services, which it offers to consumers, publishers, and advertisers.
Founded in 1985 as Quantum Computer Services, an online services company by Jim Kimsey from the remnants of Control Video Corporation, AOL has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or to set up international versions of its services.[5] AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York[6][7] but has many offices in cities throughout North America. Its global offices include Bangalore, India; Dreieich, Germany; Dublin, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; and Tel Aviv, Israel. History[edit] 1980s: foundations[edit] 1990s: a new internet age[edit] TechCrunch. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. It was founded by Michael Arrington in 2005. On September 28, 2010, at its TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, AOL announced that it would acquire TechCrunch.[4][5] The transaction was rumored to be between $25m and $40m.[6] Logo used by TechCrunch from 2005-2011 Logo used by TechCrunch from 2011-2013 TechCrunch Disrupt[edit] TechCrunch Disrupt is an annual conference hosted by TechCrunch in San Francisco,[10] New York City,[11] and Beijing,[12] which began in 2011 and is where some technology startups launch their products and services competing on stage in front of venture capital potential investors, media and other interested parties.
CrunchBase[edit] TechCrunch operates CrunchBase, a database of companies and start-ups, which comprises around 500,000 data points profiling companies, people, funds, fundings and events. Crunchies[edit] Actually, AOL Didn’t Ask Us To ‘Tone It Down’ – Moviefone Did. And Their Editor-In-Chief Should Be Fired. “AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down” screamed Alexia Tsotsis’ headline on TechCrunch earlier today. And, as someone who has been just waiting for our new corporate paymasters to pull a stupid stunt like this, I really thought Christmas had come early. I knew it! All that talk of AOL respecting our editorial independence and now they’re emailing Alexia and asking her to tone down the snark? J’accuse Tim Armstrong! J’afuckingccuse. But then I read the rest of the post and – you know what? You see, here’s what actually happened. After seeing the crappy movie, Alexia wrote a solid post, expressing a healthy dose of cynicism about the Facebook game that Summit Entertainment has created to hype it.
Apparently someone at Summit didn’t like the “snark” in Alexia’s post. “First wanted to thank you for covering Source Code/attending the party, etc. Unsurprisingly outraged, Alexia wrote a follow-up post, quoting from the email and insisting that she will never tone down her snark. Hmmm. Engadget. History[edit] Engadget was founded by former Gizmodo technology weblog editor and co-founder, Peter Rojas.
Engadget was the founding blog in Weblogs, Inc., a blog network with over 75 weblogs including Autoblog and Joystiq and formerly including Hack-A-Day. Weblogs Inc. was purchased by AOL in 2005.[5] Engadget's editor-in-chief, Ryan Block, announced on 22 July 2008, that he would be stepping down as editor-in-chief in late August, leaving the role to Joshua Topolsky. On 12 March 2011, Joshua Topolsky, along with most of the senior editorial staff, announced that he was leaving Engadget due to AOL's ethically challenged editorial policies, leaving Tim Stevens—profiled by Fortune on 31 May 2012[6]—as the editor-in-chief.[7] Overnight on 15 July 2013, AOL forcibly removed Tim Stevens as the editor-in-chief, placing gdgt's Marc Perton as the executive editor.[8] Blogs[edit] Launched in March 2004, Engadget is updated multiple times a day with articles on gadgets and consumer electronics.
Hello, I must be going. It's hard to believe that I'm currently writing the words I seem to be writing, though a casual stock-taking of my senses dictates that it must be true. Here I am, at my computer, typing letters one by one into a plain text document, rolling along through one of the strangest posts I've ever penned for this site. Okay, probably the strangest ever. After nearly four years at Engadget, it's time to make my exit. There are things I'm after and challenges I want to take on that just don't fit with my day-to-day schedule here, so off I go. I didn't make this decision lightly.
The time I've spent here has been -- without question -- the most amazing, rewarding, and just insanely fun period of my life. And I like to think I've had some pretty good times. And it's not just the core team at Engadget; all the groups at Weblogs (and its director Brad Hill), have been tremendous friends, partners, and peers. Then there's you guys -- the readers. But as I said, it's time for me to step away. Engadget editors leaving as unrest grows over 'AOL way' | Technology. Arianna Huffington has been reported to have tried to convince the duo to stay. Photograph: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AOL The editor-in-chief and managing editor of the US technology site Engadget are leaving the site, adding to an outflow of staff this year. Joshua Topolsky and Nilay Patel are departing, with Topolsky saying in a post on the site itself that he isn't leaving the technology industry or "the news game" and that he is staying on as editor-at-large.
Owned by AOL, the site is one of the largest tech news sites in the industry, with about 14m visitors per month and a staff of more than 25. Kara Swisher of the AllThingsD site reports that Topolsky and Patel had had longstanding issues with AOL and that the decision was not triggered by the acquisition of Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post site which promoted her to head of content; instead she had tried to persuade the duo to remain, unsuccessfully. "AOL has proved an unwilling partner in this site's evolution. The Huffington Post. AOL buys Huffington Post: the beginning of the end? | Media. Arianna Huffington: Bill Keller Accuses Me of "Aggregating" an Idea He Had Actually "Aggregated" From Me. Huffington Post: Thrilled to welcome aboard... Bloomberg Television. ABS-CBN News Channel. Who Owns What | Columbia Journalism Review. USA Network. Listing of NewsCorp. Ownership. Who Owns What | Columbia Journalism Review.
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