NY Times former managing editor dies
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Gerald Boyd, a prominent American  black journalist and former managing editor of The New York  Times who was forced to resign after a young reporter under his  leadership was involved in a plagiarism scandal, has died. He  was 56.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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On retiring, a Times reporter writes about covering the film industry, and what happened when he married into it.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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A veteran British magazine editor who specializes in celebrity and entertainment publications was named on Wednesday as editor-in-chief of America's largest weekly, the 9-million circulation TV Guide.
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The editor of the Los Angeles Times, James O'Shea, has been fired over a budgetary dispute only 14 months after he took over the post, the newspaper said on Sunday.
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Mike Allen of Time magazine and Roger Simon of Bloomberg News are joining the new multimedia political news venture being overseen by two former Washington Post journalists.
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The New York Times Company named James M. Follo, the former chief financial officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, as its chief financial officer.
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Richard Avedon, who turned fashion  and portrait photography into art forms and captured  unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous  figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker  magazine said.
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USA Today publisher Gannett Co Inc  said on Thursday that the president of its newspaper division  will retire in late May.
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USA Today publisher Gannett Co Inc said on Thursday that the president of its newspaper division will retire in late May.
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The New York Times is appointing Carla Anne Robbins as deputy editorial page editor and David Shipley as deputy editorial page editor in a newly created position.
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The editor of the New Statesman has left suddenly after almost three years in the role
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The public editor for The New York Times slammed his employer Sunday in a column, saying the newspaper violated its policies by cutting MoveOn.org a deal on a controversial ad criticizing the top U.S. military commander in Iraq.
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Ellen J. Pollock, a longtime editor and writer for the Wall Street Journal, is leaving to become executive editor of BusinessWeek.
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The New York Times Co.  board  of directors met with leading shareholders in late February, a  spokeswoman of the paper confirmed on Monday, amid a fight to  cut the Sulzberger family's long-standingcontrol of the  company.
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New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, a lead writer on war and politics for decades before he returned to the noodle shops of Saigon and restaurants of Paris to write about the food and wine he loved, died on Wednesday. He was 71.