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...giant musical spectacle is in eclipse. The real news on Broadway over the past few seasons has been the success of smaller, edgier musicals: shows like Urinetown, Avenue Q and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. A decade ago, these musicals would have been content to settle for a small but enthusiastic coterie of off-Broadway fans. Now they're moving to Broadway, having long runs and stealing Tonys away from the big boys...
Marra added that The Crimson’s editorial board will be instituting training seminars for cartoonists and columnists, “not all of whom have gone through The Crimson’s rigorous content comp process.” Editors will continue to be “on alert for potential plagiarism,” Marra wrote...
...Yahoo's Media Group could use a hit. Company CEO Terry Semel recruited former ABC-TV chairman Lloyd Braun two years ago to help the portal become a serious show biz player, and the Media Group was touted as an incubator for revolutionary new online content. But a series of gaffes ensued: plans to revive a TV pilot called "The Runner" as an interactive game went nowhere, a roving war correspondent and an adventure travel guide failed to click with audiences, and there was even discussion of having a newscast read by puppets. This year, scaling back its ambitious plans...
...effort to further ensure the integrity of the content that runs in our newspaper, The Crimson will now require all contributing columnists and cartoonists to take part in sourcing and citation seminars similar to the ones that Crimson staff writers currently must attend. Additionally, we have sharpened our enforcement of source citation requirements in the editing process of written pieces...
...take no satisfaction in having to deal with these complex situations. While we are committed to upholding the highest standards of honesty in the content of our newspaper, these were very difficult decisions for us to make...