Media

This Blockbuster store in Mission, Texas, is franchised by Border Entertainment. The company has 26 stores across Texas and Alaska that will live on after the last 300 or so company-owned stores are closed by early January 2014.

Blockbuster Fades Out, But Some Zombie Stores Will Live On

8:08pm November 08, 2013

by Serri Graslie

Dish Network announced this week that it will shutter the 300 or so remaining Blockbuster stores it owns across the country. But in some places, dozens of the video stores will have an unlikely afterlife.

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How Much Is NPR's Brand Worth? $400 Million!*

6:19pm November 01, 2013

by Dan Bobkoff

The value of a brand doesn't include anything physical. It's just the name of the company — and all of the customer loyalty attached to that name.

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World News

Readers Lament 'International Herald Tribune' Name Change

4:21am October 14, 2013

by Eleanor Beardsley

Starting Tuesday, American expats throughout Europe will pick up their The International Herald Tribune to discover it has been renamed, The International New York Times. Many longtime readers say they'll feel a great loss.

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A zoo in central China's Henan province swapped a dog — a Tibetan mastiff like the one shown here — for a lion, in another story that recently swept Chinese cyberspace.

Too Weird To Be True? In China, You Never Can Tell

5:47pm October 09, 2013

by Frank Langfitt

Foreign news coverage of China is often deadly serious: corruption, pollution and the like. Then there's the funny and bizarre that often goes viral — like the zoo that swapped a dog for a lion. A number of websites are making these offbeat and satirical tales increasingly available in English.

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A screen shot of the Boston Marathon bombing video that Storyful helped verify.

Social Media Detectives: Is That Viral Video For Real?

7:56pm October 02, 2013

by Sami Yenigun

After the Boston Marathon bombing, Storyful helped journalists verify that a popular YouTube video was actually an eyewitness account. But it doesn't stop there — the company also hopes to change the "Wild West" model of news organizations using citizen journalists' uploaded content free.

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Thaddeus Kalinoski makes more than $200,000 a year as a Zach Galifianakis impersonator.

The New And The Next: A Haitian Star, Bilingual Speed Dating

6:52pm September 28, 2013

by NPR Staff

Ozy co-founder Carlos Watson tells us about a rising star in human rights law, a rags-to-riches tale of a whacky impersonator and trend to look out for in the dating world.

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The weekend broadcast of All Things Considered has moved to Los Angeles. This view of the city comes from from Griffith Observatory.

Westerly Weekends: 'All Things Considered' Shifts Viewpoint

5:45pm September 21, 2013

by NPR Staff

The show has a new host and a new home. On Saturdays and Sundays, Arun Rath will be broadcasting from NPR West in Culver City, Calif. Veteran NPR reporters give the new host a rundown of what to expect out West, and a flavor of how All Things Considered's national coverage can have a fresh perspective.

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The Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown plans to leave the website to produce live forums on news topics.

Tina Brown To Leave The Daily Beast

9:41am September 12, 2013

by Mandalit del Barco

Celebrity editor Tina Brown announced Wednesday that she's leaving the news and opinion website to launch her own media company. She has been a regular guest on Morning Edition. Brown plans to produce live forums on news topics.

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Media Weighs Competition, Collaboration In Snowden Coverage

5:59pm September 11, 2013

by David Folkenflik

British paper The Guardian announced last Friday that it would share classified documents acquired from Edward Snowden with The New York Times. News organizations pursuing the disclosures made by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have seesawed between rivalry and collaboration — resentment and achievement.

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Fake 'Twerk Fail' Video Tricks Gullible TV News Networks

5:59pm September 11, 2013

by Sami Yenigun

Last week a video of a girl dancing, falling and catching on fire made its way onto cable and local news networks. This week, late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel came forward to reveal that the video was a hoax and that he staged the whole thing. It's not the first time the press has been duped by videos engineered to go viral.

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