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...country where layoffs are all but forbidden, more than 500 journalists are expected to lose their jobs in September. Yet the demand for a different type of reporting remains striking. Last fall, I attended a festival of international journalism organized by the magazine Internazionale, a weekly compilation of foreign news sources. Attendees overflowed the auditoriums, then sat in the piazzas to listen to the proceedings over loudspeakers. In an era of plunging circulation, sales of Internazionale grew 25% last year. "The people who stop buying papers aren't people who don't want information any more," says the title...
...University of Michigan. We were, in fact, the only publication in the city to officially endorse candidates in recent city-council elections. The Daily may not be a new online operation promising to solve journalism's financial woes, but it has been a consistent and credible source of news in Ann Arbor for more than 119 years. Gary Graca, ANN ARBOR, MICH...
...amount of money black women spend on hair will be explored in Chris Rock's upcoming comedic documentary Good Hair. "Their hair costs more than anything they wear," he said. Which helps explain the recent news out of Indiana University that black women often sacrifice workouts to maintain their hairstyles...
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...vehicles to claim government rebates on more-efficient models. Dealers complained that Uncle Sam was slow with payments, but consumers embraced the program, whose $1 billion budget was tripled by Congress after sales soared. Washington crowed that the effort created or saved 42,000 jobs. The bad news for Detroit? The three most popular models were Japanese...