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...absence from golf to deal with the fallout from his shocking infidelity scandal, Woods will make his highly anticipated return to the sport this week, at the Masters tournament in Augusta, Ga. In an interview with SI.com last month, Sean McManus, president of both CBS Sports and CBS News, called Woods' return to golf "the biggest media event other than the Obama Inauguration in the past 10 or 15 years." A hyperbolic reach from the leader of the network set to broadcast the final two rounds of the Masters this weekend? Sure. Still, the cameras will be glaring, the tabloids...
...anxious, of course, because I have deep roots in dead-tree media and still take substantial nourishment from it. (For the record, I am the news director of both TIME and TIME.com, but the nature of breaking news means that most of my day is spent making sure the website gets fed with stories.) With the publishing industry in a depression, Apple's latest innovation (or feat of technological repackaging) has been hailed as a potential savior: the entry point for print to become a whole new medium while preserving its essential identity. Since TIME's iPad app was also...
...will the iPad save journalism? No. Journalism is something that should go on fighting for its existence constantly, proving it is worth consuming because it is useful. Its existence will be independent of its medium of delivery. The iPad is just another way for news outlets to try to figure out a way to survive. That brings us to a more pertinent question: Will the iPad save the magazine industry? Not entirely. But it will help because it brings an excitement back to the field - and an undiscovered realm of possibilities in which to play. A lot still needs...
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...waited patiently during the planning phase for reconstructing this Caribbean nation. And now plans reveal that a joint commission between Haitian authorities and the international community, co-chaired by Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, will manage the funds. When I revealed the news to a family member, she jokingly said, "They're giving the money to the state! Good, I work for the state." It is a very serious joke. Haitians are concerned that aid money will not trickle down to the people but instead be used by the government to take care...