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Apr 23 2013 01:29 PM ET

Associated Press' Twitter account hacked

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Another indication that you shouldn’t believe everything you read online: Shortly after 1 p.m. ET, the Associated Press’s official Twitter account sent out a message indicating that two explosions in the White House had injured President Obama.

Though the tweet quickly began circulating, it was a fake; as the AP’s media relations team wrote on its own account five minutes later, “That is a bogus AP tweet.” The AP also posted the following message on its official Facebook page: “The Associated Press Twitter account (@AP) has been hacked. Please do not respond to news posted there in the last 20 minutes.”

The hack comes just three days after the Twitter feeds for CBS’s 60 Minutes and 48 Hours were similarly compromised. On Saturday, a hacker or hackers posed messages on both accounts saying that President Barack Obama was “shamelessly in bed with Al-Qaeda.”

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Jan 17 2013 02:03 PM ET

'Dear Abby' advice columnist dies at age 94

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Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94.

Publicist Gene Willis of Universal Uclick said Phillips died Wednesday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Phillips’ column competed for decades with the advice column of Ann Landers, written by her twin sister, Esther Friedman Lederer. Their relationship was stormy in their early adult years, but later they regained the close relationship they had growing up in Sioux City, Iowa. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 18 2012 08:12 AM ET

Newsweek ending print publication, all-digital by year's end

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Newsweek announced this morning that it will cease print publication and transition to an all-digital format. In an article published on Dailybeast.com, Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief and founder of the Newsweek Daily Beast Company, cited a “challenging print advertising environment” and the company’s rapidly growing digital audience as reasons behind the decision. “In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format. This was not the case just two years ago. It will increasingly be the case in the years ahead.”

Brown said that the Dec. 31 issue of the 80-year-old print magazine will be its last.The digital publication will be called Newsweek Global and will require a paid subscription.

Brown indicated that layoffs will accompany the move. “Regrettably we anticipate staff reductions and the streamlining of our editorial and business operations both here in the U.S. and internationally,” she wrote.

The announcement is not a complete surprise. Newsweek merged with Dailybeast.com in 2010 and Brown was made editor of both. Despite splashy magazine covers grabbing headlines since then, the print magazine has continued to struggle with advertising. Over the summer, Barry Diller, head of the company that owns Newsweek, indicated that the publication was considering a transition to digital-only.

Aug 13 2012 03:53 PM ET

Former 'Cosmopolitan' editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown has died at 90

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Trailblazing magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown has passed away after a brief hospitalization, according to a Hearst Corporation press release. She was 90.

“Widely heralded as a legend, Gurley Brown’s impact on popular culture and society reached around the globe, first with her 1962 bestseller, Sex and the Single Girl, and then for the more than three decades she put her personal stamp on Cosmopolitan in a way rarely replicated by editors,” the release reads in part. “Under her reign, Cosmopolitan became the bible of ‘single girls’ worldwide and remains the magazine of ‘fun, fearless, females’ to this day.”

Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Ark. on February 18, 1922. After stints at Texas State College for Women and Woodbury Business College, the future publishing superstar took on a series of secretarial jobs. She eventually transitioned into writing advertising copy, then cemented herself as a public figure in 1962 with the publication of Sex and the Single Girl. Gurley Brown went on to become Cosmopolitan‘s editor-in-chief in 1965, transforming the conservative periodical into a must-read magazine for young, single women. She left her position in 1997, moving on to become editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan‘s international editions (which now number 64).

Gurley Brown will be remembered for her impact on the publishing industry, her contributions to the culture at large, and sly quips like this famous line: “Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.”

Aug 12 2012 02:44 PM ET

Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work

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Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria has apologized for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for use in his column in Time magazine. His column has been suspended for a month.

Zakaria said in a statement Friday he made “a terrible mistake,” adding, “It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault.”
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May 15 2012 09:41 PM ET

Former Murdoch tabloid boss Brooks faces phone hacking charges

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One of Rupert Murdoch’s most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, bringing the scandal that has raged across Britain’s media and political elite uncomfortably close to Prime Minister David Cameron.

The charges Tuesday against former U.K. tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks, her husband Charlie and four aides are the first prosecutions since police reopened inquiries 18 months ago into wrongdoing by the country’s scandal-hungry press.

Brooks, 43, faces three separate allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice — an offense that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

For years, Brooks was the star in Murdoch’s media empire, the top editor of two of his tabloids, a friend of his daughter Elisabeth and a close friend of Cameron, who has known her husband Charlie Brooks since they both went to an elite high school. Cameron is a neighbor, a friend and an occasional horse-riding companion of the couple.

The prospect that courts will hear potentially explosive accusations against Brooks and her husband could rock both Murdoch’s global media empire and Cameron’s political career.

To critics, however, Brooks was “The Witch of Wapping” — a ruthless figure at the heart of a media company in that London neighborhood that showed little remorse over its frequently intrusive reporting on celebrities and ordinary people in thrust into the public glare.

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May 3 2012 06:01 PM ET

Vogue bans too-skinny models from its pages

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Vogue magazine, perhaps the world’s top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too thin is no longer in.

The 19 editors of Vogue magazines around the world made a pact to project the image of healthy models, according to a Condé Nast International announcement Wednesday.

They agreed to “not knowingly work with models under the age of 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder,” and said they will ask casting directors to check IDs at photo shoots and fashion shows and for ad campaigns.

The move is an important one for the fashion world, said model Sara Ziff, who was discovered at 14 and has since founded the Model Alliance, dedicated to improving the working conditions of models and persuading the industry to take better care of its young.

“Most editions of Vogue regularly hire models who are minors, so for Vogue to commit to no longer using models under the age of 16 marks an evolution in the industry,” she said. “We hope other magazines and fashion brands will follow Vogue‘s impressive lead.”

American, French, Chinese and British editions of the fashion glossies are among those that will start following the new guidelines with their June issues; the Japanese edition will begin with its July book. READ FULL STORY »

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