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Hard drive used by Adam Lanza contained pro-pedophile material
A computer hard drive used by Adam Lanza contained pro-pedophile literature among other things, a report released Monday afternoon revealed.
White House “Photo of the Day” upsets political journalists
Journalists are upset over a White House “Photo of the Day” they claim was released as a crass response to a complaint made earlier in the week.
Tribune Company to lay off 700 employees
The Tribune Company will lay off approximately 700 employees working in “non-editorial functions” of its eight newspapers.
The web could save Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera is not a hit with cable viewers. The channel should stop looking to cable and start looking to the web if it wants to survive.
Six things revealed from newly-unclassified NSA documents
The Desk spent most of Tuesday pouring over the thousands of documents released Monday by the ODNI. Here are some key takeaways from the now-unclassified documents.
NSA: Some call logs contained personal names, credit card details
The National Security Agency acknowledged it received some financial and personal information when it collected telephone metadata in 2006.
Chicago Sun-Times website victim of weekend cyber attack
The domain name registrar that serves the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper experienced a cyber attack on Saturday, leaving some readers unable to access the website over the weekend and into Monday morning.
Bloomberg, WSJ, Reuters cut journalism jobs in 2013
Dow Jones, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg LP have slashed newsroom jobs throughout the year. And if things don't change, expect more jobs to be lost in 2014.
China blocks Wall Street Journal, Reuters news websites
Global variants of the Wall Street Journal and Reuters websites have been blocked for internet users in China, according to several internet monitoring agencies.
Bloomberg suspends journalist over withheld China story leak
Bloomberg News reporter Michael Forsythe has been suspended from the company over reports the news organization engaged in self-censorship with regard to an investigative story focused on the Chinese government.
J.P. Morgan cancels Twitter Q&A after “insulting” questions
J.P. Morgan canceled a planned question-and-answer session on Twitter with the bank’s vice chairman James Lee, Jr. after receiving “insulting” questions.
AT&T says it may refund customers for bad internet service
AT&T says it is considering whether to offer refunds to residential customers who have experienced poor internet service.