The number of people with health insurance continues to grow in Massachusetts, home of a closely watched universal health insurance plan. Some 439,000 people have signed up for insurance since the plan went into effect in 2006, state officials said in a report released yesterday. (The figures exclude Medicare.) That's [...]
State medical boards have taken a dim view of doctors prescribing drugs over the Internet. But country doc and WSJ.com columnist Ben Brewer says there are plenty of times when online prescriptions would make sense. Brewer figures that 20% of his office visits could safely be handled online. But in [...]
Clear Channel Radio, the San Antonio-based radio giant that has lost top executives to Sam Zell's Tribune Co., made a point of announcing Tuesday that it had locked up several key executives in multi-year contracts.[...]
Subscribers should disregard an email alert sent erroneously at about 5:07 p.m. today to alert readers to a Heard on the Street column titled "Test Duke Hits a Ditch." There is no such Heard on the Street column. The test content, which wasn't based on actual trading, was created by [...]
Harry and Louise are back. Fifteen years ago, the phony couple sat at a phony kitchen table in TV ads paid for by the insurance industry, which fiercely opposed the Clintons' plan to transform the way health insurance worked in this country. The ads were set in a fictional future, [...]
An online gaming community takes its adventures offline. WSJ.com's Andy Jordan looks at SFZero.[...]
Portfolio |
August 19th, 2008 |
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- Muxtape, the popular music sharing website, went down late Monday, citing "a problem with the RIAA." [Valleywag]- Apple has issued a firmware update for the iPhone. But will it fix the 3G connection issues that have troubled the handset? [Boy Genius Report]- In other Apple news, the company is [...]
The Street |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Gannett and Hilltop Holdings upgraded; Wynn Resorts and Pharmanet Development downgraded.[...]
Seeking Alpha |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Ads for flu vaccines have traditionally been confined to public service announcements (PSAs), health and media alerts. So, that's why I was surprised to see this colorful full-page ad in The New York Times last weekend for FluMist from AstraZeneca (AZN)/MedImmune.[...]
Almost two-thirds of the top 30 newspaper Web site list recorded double-digit percent increases in unique traffic in July, according to the latest data from Nielsen Online. Biggest gainer: Ottaway Newspapers. And the big quake helped the L.A. Times.[...]
Sramana Mitra |
August 18th, 2008 |
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Blogs have clearly turned the media industry upside down,, with many providing coverage superior to that of newspapers and television. While most of them read poorly, some are excellent, and these are monetizing by quality ad networks with their content and traffic. Here are eight players in the blogosphere worth [...]
Nexpo -- the U.S. newspaper industry's largest, but ever-shrinking equipment show -- is no more. The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) will announce formally Tuesday that it is replacing Nexpo and the NAA Marketing Conference with an annual conference to be called NAA mediaXchange.[...]
Are advocates for the mentally-ill too aggressive in pushing for their clients' right to resist treatment? That's the tricky legal question at the center of a Weekend Journal feature by Elizabeth Bernstein and Nathan Koppel. As context, they take the tragic story of William Bruce (pictured), who, two months after [...]
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August 18th, 2008 |
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Sam Zell is finding less room to maneuver when it comes to servicing the $8.4 billion debt incurred by Tribune Co. in the employee-owned deal he engineered. Although the company has met all of its debt obligations to date, the possibility of default sometime in 2009 looms ever larger with [...]
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August 18th, 2008 |
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In a further sign of the newspaper industry's woes, Gannett said it is planning to cut 1,000 jobs--representing about 3% of its workforce--in a memo to employees last week. The company will eliminate positions through a combination of attrition (leaving empty posts unfilled) and about 600 layoffs. All the layoffs [...]
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August 18th, 2008 |
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All McClatchy Co. operations, including executives and Internet staff, got a sobering message late last week: Wages are frozen for a year beginning Sept. 1.[...]
Portfolio |
August 18th, 2008 |
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- Pandora, the popular online music service, is drowning under the weight of the royalty fees it must pay to music rights-holders. [WP]- Several new U2 tunes have made their way to the web. How? Someone apparently recorded Bono blasting them on his South-of-France villa's stereo, and the rest is [...]
Business Week |
August 18th, 2008 |
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Germany's papers are doing fine despite the ad flight to the Web. What's their secret?[...]
CNBC |
August 17th, 2008 |
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Fewer Americans are reading newspapers and are instead getting their news online, but television remains the leading source of news in the country, according to a survey released Sunday. Read More Permalink[...]
Ready or not, here they come.[...]
MediaShift |
August 16th, 2008 |
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Recently, MediaShift started running reports from "embeds" at various media outlets and educational institutions. This report comes from Roland Legrand, new media director at Mediafin in Belgium. The company where I work is well-known in Belgium for its print publications. Mediafin is the publisher behind the Dutch language business daily [...]
